A Neopagan's garden. . .

Also posted in the Neopaganism forum.

I'm a laco-ovo-vegetarian and neopagan with heavy interests in medicinal and magickal herbs planning my garden for next year. What should be in my dirt? What are you putting in your dirt next spring? Incidentally, most of my herbs are going in pots on my apartment's balcony, and the vegetables are mostly in my huge community garden plot. I am growing primarily for my home, but I have two separate friends running homeless shelter ministries (one Christian, one Neopagan) out of pocket. With all those mouths between us, there will be homes for all of my veggies. Oh, and I hope to grow mostly organincally.

So far I have. . .
In community plot:
4 red, 4 green, 4 banana, and 4 jalepeno peppers
1 yellow and 1 green zucchini
1 butternut and 1 acorn squash
2 broccoli
2 cauliflower
sunflowers for seeds
4 roma tomatoes (nomnomnomnom. . . )
3 sisters: sweet corn, pie pumpkins, and green beans
1 row of white sage
onions
salad lettuce
romaine lettuce
radishes
kale, kale, kale. . .
chamomile
lots of pickling dill
carrots
Edamame soybeans make a better movie munchie than popcorn.
Marigolds and petunias for buggie control

On my balconies and windows:
1 peace and 1 little pink 5-petal rose
1 flowering vine (cannot recall name, but it sells here every year)
4 windowboxes genovese basil (All. Hail. Pesto.)
1 blackberry bush
1 trashbin grower of potatoes
1 green basil for magickal purposes
1 purple ruffle basil, because they taste like licorice
1 tray of garlic
1 rosemary
1 oregano
1 windowbox: parsley, tarragon, and cilantro
1 wood sorrel, aka picklebombs
spinach
swiss chard
yellow beans
sugar snap peas
1 bush tomato
1 English ivy in a fishbowl
1 pothos, dumpster-dived from prunings and IT LIVES!
1 African violet with no flowers.
1 mystery tree, recieved as a Valentines' Day gift from a man who never thought that it would survive. It was 6" tall, it is 3' tall nine months later.
1 terrarium of carnivorous plants, fed on slummy-apartment pests daily.
1 echinacia
1 cooking sage
1 spoiled hamster, fed daily on garden veggies. His cage litter goes in my plants as mulch/fertilizer, but sprouts random grains when it gets wet.
100 million ladybugs. I don't know where they came from, but they eat fungus gnats so they are welcome to live and lay eggs on my houseplants.
Whatever spiders I can entice to live in my plants, not counting brown relcuses. They die.

I think that there should be more magickal plants in my selection, and maybe more interesting food plants. Any suggestions?

 

How about white sage?

 

That's in the community plot.

 

Kudos to you! I'm trying to explore more herbal remedies myself. Thanks for being inspiring.

 

Garlic needs fairly deeply tilled soil to bulb you won't get much unless you use a pot.

 

I think you need some wormwood, and perhaps some fleabane.

 

How about thyme - an excellent perennial when it finds the right place.

 

yarrow , sweet grass , catnip , lavender , maybe some lemongrass
i know that i want to grow these , sweetgrass for positive energy
catnip for catmagick
lavender for stress relax
lemongrass is good for cooking and to help ward of spririt
yarrow good to drink a cup of this for two days of mistral cycle in tea form

i want to grow sage too

hope this helps

 

I think you need more tomato varieties, maybe some heirloom types. There's several medicinal herbs that you could also add.

 

Yarrow grows wild out here, but the rest are good ideas.

 

here's another thought - Holly for the community plot. If you can, at least a couple of bushes (male and female for the female to produce berries). Many magical purposes including protection and luck.

 

I'm afraid I can't help you with magickal plants - but I'm studying up to recreate a monastic garden full of healing plants in a few years.

Aside from my fruits & veggies, the herbs I'm researching & considering are:
angelica
anise
basil
betony
chervil
chives
costmary
fennel
garlic
heartsease
horehound
leeks
lemonbalm
lovage
marsh mallow (near the fountain?)
marigolds
mint
nasturtiums
onions
rosemary
and sage
I don't know what the crossover might be, but hopefully at least a few of these might help?
love,
mom

 

Oh, I assure you, if it's a medicinal herb I can use it. Most of the "Magickal" healing properties are based in the old medicinal uses.

 

^ That is what I thought. Plus one of the books I have actually gives information for plants regarding both healing/magical properties (which are often about or close to the same when looking at it w/ common sense).

(My favorite little flower which I didn't mention but the poster just above did is a pansy, also called heart's ease. I can't wait to plant my new ones tomorrow. Their little faces always make me .)

 

What book would that be? I'm curious now.

 

The Master Book of Herbalism by Paul Beyerl

 

"The Master Book of Herbalism" by Paul Beyerl

Aa - just have to tell ya, I Love that line by Laurell K., one of my favorite authors.

 

Holy merde. . . someone actually caught it. . . Laurell K. isn't too popular out here. I have to spread the addiction myself.

 

I Really Love her as Meredith NicEssus! (can't wait for her to have the babies)

 

I'm more of an Anita fan, but then I prefer the gore and sarcasm to the sex. Now if only Laurell K. could get back to the pre-ardeur Anita. . .

But back to the topic at hand, does anyone know where I could find some white sage seeds? Seeds of Change isn't carrying it.