Staying as Healthy as We Can Food and Pesticides

[GregnLety]

I read somewhere that if onions repel most insects so I scatter them through my lettuce and tomatoes.

You don't.

Someone once told me if you mix the plants the insects get confused. Maybe that would work with herbs.

 

[GregnLety]

I think I double posted my last comment...it was a long day...

 

[Marie2020]

I think I double posted my last comment...it was a long day...

I get the same and get completely wiped out at times.

 

[Marie2020]

Even more on honey:

Some of the best beekeepers in the world are right here in the USA. Check at your local farmers market or beekeeping club for beekeepers that only use organic acids in their hives for mite treatments. Drizzle local fresh honey on apples, oranges, and sharp cheddar cheese with a glass of wine. You'll be glad you did.

More on honey...
I found that taking honey last thing at night has helped me with any sort of cough. A lady was coughing as she walked today and I suggested she tried this, she said she has honey and is definitely going too try this tonight because the antibiotics has not helped her at all.

 

[Marie2020]

My apologies for my absence. I'm paying for the internet connection with my phone and for days it has be very weak. It's incredibly frustrating at a time like this

 

[Sally PB]

Following. Some thoughts....

I'm reading Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson. (Not sure who recommended it.) It's making me rethink what to grow in my garden, for better nutrition.

Stuff that comes out of my garden that makes it to the house gets rinsed with water, mostly to get rid of sand.

Cilantro grows pretty "wild" in my garden now. I planted it once, and it has reseeded itself every year since. The seeds are coriander, just in case you didn't know.

Garlic is easy to grow, but it get planted in the fall up here in Michigan. I bought cloves 4 years ago, and have had plenty to eat and grow ever since. The variety is "Music," a hardneck variety. Hardnecks give two crops: the flower stalk, or "scape," in early summer, and then the cloves later on.

Onions planted by my potatoes seemed to do especially well. So did the taters.

 

[GregnLety]

More on honey...
I found that taking honey last thing at night has helped me with any sort of cough. A lady was coughing as she walked today and I suggested she tried this, she said she has honey and is definitely going too try this tonight because the antibiotics has not helped her at all.

My wife uses honey and lemon in her nightly tea when she has a cough. I grew up in Kentucky so as a child the adults would add a shot of bourbon to the tea, I still do

 

[GregnLety]

I grew up in the Appalachian mountains and my grandmother used what she called mountain medicine to treat most everything. I would often gather roots and herbs for her teas and poultice making. She lived to 95 and rarely visited a doctor. I wish I had taken notes.

 

[igorsMistress]

I grew up in the Appalachian mountains and my grandmother used what she called mountain medicine to treat most everything. I would often gather roots and herbs for her teas and poultice making. She lived to 95 and rarely visited a doctor. I wish I had taken notes.

Oh wow! What an amazing resource she would be now!

 

[GregnLety]

Oh wow! What an amazing resource she would be now!

I have located a book on the subject of Appalachian herbal medicine and intend to purchase it on payday.