Gardening with Herbs · Sustainable gardening is low maintenance, eco-friendly and often mimics...
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‘Gardening with Herbs’
Through a sustainable lensWith Norma Weinberg, www.herbsdottir.comMaster Gardener, passionate plant person
Gardening With Herbs
CompostingRecycles and enriches
Conserving water resourcesWater is precious, it needs to be protected. You can use ground covers and mulch to enable soils to hold water.
What is Sustainable Gardening?
Sustainable gardening is low maintenance, eco-friendly and often mimics nature.
Grow Native Plants (suitable for your
climate and area)
Harvest and save herb and flower
seedsTry to use heirloom seeds and plants
Companion Planting
Plants that:
Benefit each otherAttract or deter pests Help to improve the soilImprove a crop’s flavor
Choosing Plants
Marigolds deter pests & release
toxins through its roots to kill nematodes.
Nasturtiums act as a trap to draw pests away from the main crop as: roses and lettuce.
Fennel attracts beneficials
Pollinators are:bees, butterflies, hover flies, and ladybugs (control aphid pests).
Weeds: Friend or Foe?
Dandelion and Dock can help condition your soil. They bring trace minerals to the soil surface, where fruit trees roots can access them.
Stinging Nettle (Urtica Urens)
These ‘weeds’ support more than 40 beneficial insects, and are vital for the survival of some butterflies and moth larvae.
Plantain (Plantago sp.) &
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
All around good friends for the plants and for you,
minerals for the plants and remedies for you
Some Weeds: Companion Plants?
Yarrow
Catnip
Bronze Fennel
Ginger
Lovage
Chamomile
Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium)
Lavender
Lemon Balm
Aloe
Arnica
Calendula
Comfrey(Symphytum officinale)
Cranberry
Echinacea
Garlic
St. John’s Wort(Hypericum perforatum)