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Learning About “Green Prescribing” to Heal and Cure Illness
In the United Kingdom National Health Service they are doing studies and have budgeted multi-million dollars trying to gain knowledge on the process of what they are calling “Green Prescribing.” This is a holistic form of medicine which is having amazing healing effects on the human body, mind, and spirit.
Plants and flowers give off chemicals which are known as phytochemicals that actually can aid in cardiovascular care, improvements in cancer recovery, and levels of healing of many issues. Phytochemicals are produced by plants as a defense mechanism against pathogens. They are used to treat various metabolic, immunological, and neurological disorders in humans in various parts of the world as a part of traditional medicine.
Among the phytochemicals mentioned is potentially providing health benefits are polyphenols, flavonoids, isoflavonoids, anthocyanins, phytoestrogens, terpenoids, carotenoids, limonoids, phytosterols, glucosinolates, and fibers. Many of these are ingested but they also are emitted by plants that are growing outside and in landscaped areas as well.
It is already known that planting Tulsi (Rama), Rue, Lavender, and many other herbs near your patio, or where you sit out of doors, will drive away mosquitoes, ticks, etc., but it will also waft their heavenly clove and other spicy scents which are sending a healing response for our entire system. No kidding. Many trees, herbs, flowers, and even vegetables also do this same thing.
Amazing isn’t it?
If you get Gardeners World, watch Season 55, Episode 3, and towards the end, a UK doctor talks about this. These phytochemicals which float around in the air also carry with them anti-fungal and anti-bacterial effects, which will make your body start producing white blood cells (natural killers of bad cells or viruses, and bacteria). This is also being studied in Canada, the US, Australia, some Asian countries, and other locations in Europe.
If you have taken walks in woods, or gardens, you will notice that you do feel differently when you smell so many different things. So you may know of this healing experience already. Now the medical community in some parts of the world are finally catching up to it as well, and actually “Green Prescribing.”
Time to Start Winter Gardens
Depending upon your growing Zone, you may be able to produce at least one crop of many of these vegetables – especially those that only need 50 days to maturity.
If you start seeds now or plant now, you will start getting crops before Thanksgiving. In the fall start plants 4 to 6 weeks before your last frost date. Check with your County Cooperative Extension to find that date. When the first crop is starting to be picked you can start a second crop, which will mature before your first fall frost date.
You can cover your crops to protect them from chill if needed. You can also use small portable greenhouses which Amazon carries and they are wonderful.
What To Do With Your Garden At the End of the Season
Many suggest that you clean everything out of your beds that is not perennial – be they vegetable, annual, or perennial or herb beds, but I believe that it is time to rethink that.
First of all the plants in the fall, until winter’s first frost, are actually giving back to the nutrients still unused by the garden soils that they lived in. It is a process. Secondly, many insects, butterfly, small rodents, beneficial bacteria and fungi are living in the remains of the plants and the soil they grew in. Nestled in the leaves and nooks and crannies of soil you remove things that you are removing their shelter and also probably killing the eggs that they have lain.
Leaving the structures of the plants can also be tilled into the soil in the springtime to lighten the soil you are going to be planting in as a naturally composted green manure.
Another chore you will want to perform is to blow or rake your fallen tree leaves into the gardens. All of them. Then heavily water them in to help keep them in place, thus creating a cozy blanket over your soil. This adds more shelter, keeps the soil moist, and nutrients of the leaves are absorbed up to your soils and plants. You can mow over with a bag on your mower to chip them up if they are Oak leaves because they do break down very well at all. Those leaves may also have insect and butterfly eggs attached to them. You can also place grass clippings from the mower into the gardens – but only as long as you have not had your lawn treated with chemicals of any kind – meaning no herbicides, pesticides, or pre-emergents placed on your lawn at all. Adding sterilized horse manure on your gardens is also a good idea as it can continue to decompose and attract beneficial insects to help break down as well.
Everything that you leave in your gardens are the “amendments” that you would have to buy otherwise in the spring to add to your garden. You can remove any diseased plant and do not compost it but throw it in the trash so it will not reappear and spread that disease anywhere else in your gardens. You can remove weeds if you like but leave everything else.
Did You Know That…
By broadcasting granular sulfur pellets, you will deter snakes and slugs, from nearing where it is spread but you will also be conditioning your soil. However, for every blessing there is a catch. By keeping the snakes away the voles, mice and moles feel quite safe in moving into that area. I would prefer the rodents.
Also, DO NOT use sulfur in its powdered form as it will aerosolize and cause you harm. When it hits moisture (your lungs) it creates sulfuric acid. Do not use the powder around your ankles to prevent ticks either. Only use the granular sulfur pellets.
Fig trees need to have their feet in the shade and their heads in the sun, so mulch well, but do not put mulch near the trunk of the tree.
You can train an eagle or hawk to come to your call if you can whistle in a similar fashion to match their call, they will fly over and see what you want. After awhile they will actually come to find you and eventually land near you, if you are very patient. You can do the same with crows, and vultures.
By turning part of a lawn into a grassland area, or a native meadow, you will attract fox, birds and other wildlife to nest in that area. You will also be creating feeding areas, with the seeds of the plants you install there for the wildlife as well, thus returning it to a more natural balance. Go to the “Wildlife” magazine website and you can actually register your areas as wildlife protected areas.
Aspen trees grow as actually a singular organism. And they communicate with one another.
Nitrogen Gas produced by lightning is very everything’s source of fertilizer. That is also causing the smell that you notice of ozone. When the lightning strikes, it releases nitrogen available to the plants and this helps to fertilize soil.
If you notice that your plants are producing only leaves and no flowers or fruit or vegetables, the problem might very well be because you are getting too much nitrogen in your soils from a bad ratio of fertilizer or too many lightning storms. Below is what your fertilizer actually is meant to do and what those letters mean on the label.
N = Nitrogen – Foliage Growth
P = Phosphorus / phosphate – Blossom and Fruit Production
K = Potash / Potassium – Root System Growth
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