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LIFE CULINARY PROPA SPECIAL COMPANION HERB: GROWING: HARVEST: MEDICINAL USE: CYCLE: USE: GATION: NOTES: PLANTING: Anise Hyssop perennial full sun leaves fresh or use fresh leaves in strong tea aids digestion, seed, cuttings, flowers dry nice for attracts bees dried, flowers cut salads, tea, with soothes respiratory tract, division, seed floral arrangements, Agastache for drying just as fruit, pork, chicken, helps with mild fevers. requires leaves and flowers dry foeniculum they begin to open, and rice, leaves Great for summer colds. stratification nice & smell good for seed when ripe have a mild licorice Note: a very cooling herb. potpourri flavor Basil annual, very well- drained, leaves before Complements Mild use for stomach seed - 70 degree continually cut basil to does well with frost tender light, moist soil, flowering tomatoes, eggplant, cramps, colic, nausea, soil keep it from flowering, tomatoes and Ocimum basilicum needs nutrient squash, and increase breast milk taste gets bitter once it asparagus. Repels rich soil, full sun seafoods. Used in production, externally helps flowers, needs water flies and mosquitoes. and warm soil many sauces, used repel insects and some fertilizer Avoid planting near in sauce, salads, during the growing rue for they really marinades and season dislike each other. famous for pesto Bay, sweet evergreen rich well-drained leaves anytime dried Use in soups, stews, Settles stomach and cuttings in early the burning of leaves is if grown as a tree in tree or soil, full sun stocks, marinades, stimulates appetite, summer, layering poisonous to humans a pot, it can give Laurus nobilis bush, can used in Bouquet externally oil used as rub in late summer and insects shelter to more not tolerate Garni (with thyme for muscle pain and tender herbs below frost marjoram, and arthritis, warming it parsley), use when expectorant action for storing grains & respiratory system clearing seeds to keep bugs bronchial, catarrh and (weevils) away relieving coughs and chest infections Bergamot perennial rich, moist, leaves before leaves and flowers leaf tea is slightly laxative, seed, plant There are different attracts bees, fertile, slightly flowering in spring, in teas, fresh florets tea after meal to aid divisions, in varieties. All have parasitic wasps, Bee Balm acidic soil, leaves after in salads, flowers digestion, for headaches spring or fall, benefits. Monarda beneficial flies, Monarda didyma prefers part flowering in fall have a cool peppery related to poor digestion or direct seed, fistulosa being the most attracts shade will (taste will be flavor, use in salads, constipation, fungal needs medicinal. hummingbirds, said tolerate full sun different), for curries, fish, & infections, candida stratification and to enhance the flowers you can chicken. Excellent in overgrowth. Use on burns light dependent growth of peppers & harvest when shrubs and in applied as a wash- will germinator tomatoes almost fully open oxymel preparations. bring heat to the surface. and dry full open head Borage annual full sun, well- pick flowers when leaves & flowers a strong fresh flower & self sows readily great bee plant, drained soil, fully open, leaves preserve in vinegar leaf infusion can be used as grows well with Borago officinalis prefers cooler anytime in growing for dressing, anti-inflammatory skin strawberries, good weather season crystallize flowers wash, mouth wash or gargle accumulator of for a decoration on minerals for compost, cakes and pastries used to repel attacks of Japanese Beetles & tomato horn worms Page 1 of 7 LIFE CULINARY PROPA SPECIAL COMPANION HERB: GROWING: HARVEST: MEDICINAL USE: CYCLE: USE: GATION: NOTES: PLANTING: Calendula annual, full sun in north flowers just before edible petals adds externally first aid creams, fresh seed, loses pests are slugs, aphids, attracts bees and hardy to 25 or part shade in they open fully, cut bright color to saves, poultice to heal cuts viability after 1st thrips, flowers very beneficial insects, Officinalis degrees south, does not stem at joint cheese, butter, & wounds, burns, dry skin, year, self seeds, easy to dry and store sprays made from Compositae like intense heat, nearest the flower custards, rice, sunburns, diaper rash, seed- start early well in glass jar, dried plant are used to light, rich soil to keep more vinegar, salads internally for swollen lymph petals great for repel, asparagus flowers producing Often referred to glands and ulcers in potpourri adding color, beetle and tomato as poor man's digestive tract, as a plant every two weeks hornworms, aids saffron as they cholagogue helps relieve to have a continuous radishes and keeps petals have a similar gall-bladder problems & supply aphids off lettuce taste. indigestion Catnip perennial moist well- snip leaves anytime, tea from fresh or tea of dried leaves and seeds, cuttings, cut back after flowering repels aphids, drained soil w/ plant is milder dried leaves, catnip flowers to aid digestion, plant division, for a second flush of asparagus beetles, Nepeta cataria average fertility before bloom, for toys for cats before bed to aid sleep, seed cold stratify flowers, will not Colorado potato, medicinal use wait infusion applied externally tolerate soil that is beetles, squash bugs until it blooms to scalp to sooth irritations soggy/ mint family so spreads Celandine perennial to part shade, yellowish orange latex juice mixed with seed, self seeds if this plant is happy, it -15 degrees prefers cool latex is most vinegar & applied to warts readily, slow to will spread throughout Chelidonium F weather concentrated in and corns, also for germinate needs the garden majus roots inflammation of bilary duct total darkness for germination Chamomile - perennial rich moist soil, before flowers open tea Flowers have some seed, plant best grown in a patch same as German full sun to fully medicinal use but they don’t division, light to to spread as ground Chamomile, grows on Roman Anthemis filtered shade, in produce many flowers germinate seed blanket cover, boil road sides and dry nobilis south leaves to produce a blue field dye Chamomile- annual sandy soil, full when flowers are excellent tea, hair teas aid sleep, sedative safe seeds need light accumulates potassium, improves yield in sun fully open and rinses to highlight for children used in anxiety to germinate, calcium, & sulphur that cabbages and onions, German leaves blond, prevent and insomnia, mouthwash self seeds are returned to soil. attracts hoverflies & Matricaria dandruff, and for sores, steam bath for Increases the essential parasitic wasp. Make condition dry, hair, nasal congestion, external oils in peppermint when a weak tea to water recutita refreshing eye wash, wound healing planted next to it. in seedings to potpourris prevent dampening off. Echinacea perennial fertile, well- leaves, flowers, stimulates the immune plant division after flowering cut back attract beneficial drained soil, full seeds, roots (of 3rd system, effective against spring or fall, to about 3inches above wasps, beneficial Echinacea sun year plant in fall), both bacterial & viral seed, needs ground. Also called flies, spiders and Angustifolia pick flowers & attacks, effective in stratification purple cone flower. praying mantis leaves during preventing colds & flu or Echinacea flowering before reducing their severity Purpurea the cone is fully formed Page 2 of 7 LIFE CULINARY PROPA SPECIAL COMPANION HERB: GROWING: HARVEST: MEDICINAL USE: CYCLE: USE: GATION: NOTES: PLANTING: Geranium perennial moist soil, part root gathered in fall astringent for diarrhea, for seed, sown in not to be confused with sun bleeding with duodenal fall for long cold decorative geraniums or Wild Geranium ulcers, excessive bleeding stratification scented geraniums maculatum during menstruation Goldenrod perennial variety of aerial parts while in astringing properties that seed, cold makes beautiful yellow habitats, grows in full flower help wound healing, relieves stratify dyes Solidago prairies, on hay fever, for urinary & virgaurea mountains, respiratory tract problems roadsides, and by streams and ponds Hyssop perennial well drained, young leaves and leaves bitter, minty infusion used for coughs, seeds, cold not to be used during plant among broccoli, slightly alkaline, when flowering, taste can add to whooping cough, asthma, stratification, pregnancy or for high cabbage, brussels Hyssopus rich soil, full sun scent improves with salads in small bronchitis, and upper plant division, strung, nervous types sprouts, cauliflower officinalis to part shade drying amounts, good respiratory congestion, cuttings, layering to ward off cabbage w/sausage, sprig of antiviral against herpes, method moths, grape hyssop with fruits, externally for bruises & companion especially good with burns cranberry Lady's Mantle perennial rich, moist soil, leaves & flowering leaves can be torn for menstrual disorders, can seed, needs reputed to have magical part day sun shoots into small pieces & help with menopausal cold/warm/cold healing properties in Alchemilla used in a salad discomfort and painful stratification, the crystal dew that periods, stimulates plant division, collects on the leaves menstrual flow if resistance, astringent use as mouthwash for ulcers Lavender perennial, light, well- gather flowers as herb jellies, soothe, sedate, and cuttings, many craft uses, attracts bees, under depends on drained soil, full they open, leaves vinegars, Herbs De suppress mind & body, aids layering, seed, potpourri, sachets, moth lilies to support & Lavandula spp. type & zone sun avoid anytime

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