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| SPECIALS AT SHIPARDS HERB FARM DURING August - September 2010 on some herbs and self-sufficiency and survival food plants... |
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Salad Mallow (Corchorus olitorius) Hardy annual to 1 metre. Plant seed in spring. Chlorophyll rich leaves over 20% protein and very rich in potassium (3068mg per 100 grams leaves), calcium (1432 mg per 100 grams of leaves). Fresh and dried leaves used as a traditional tea for strengthening and invigorating benefits. High protein leaves dried and stored as a survival food, to add to meals like soups and casseroles. Salad Mallow seed pkt $3.50 (regular price $5pkt) Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) Hardy, fast growing to 1 metre, tolerates poor soils and cold conditions. Valued medicinal uses. Bees love the flowers. Motherwort seed pkt $4 (regular price $6 pkt) Patchouli (Pogostemon patchouli) Perennial to 1 metre, used as a Companion plant in garden, and moth repelling action. Aromatic leaves used in pot pouri, bath bags, and try a leaf chopped finely to flavour a green salad. Patchouli seed pkt $3 (regular price $6 pkt) Drumstick Tree (Moringa oleifera) The drumstick is very unique food plant, with protein in leaves 38% and all 8 essential amino acids present (and an amino acid score of 112, making it a very high quality protein); also an exceptional source of Vitamin A (8855 IU per 100 grams); and a very good source of the minerals iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, selenium, sulphur and zinc. Leaves are used fresh, cooked, or dried and stored for a protein source. It is a fast growing tree, which can be trimmed to keep at shrub height in a garden with limited space. Actions: antibiotic, anti-fatigue, antifungal, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, digestive, and tonic. Drumstick Tree pkt of 30 seeds $10 (regular price is 15 seeds for $15) Yam, Greater Asiatic (Dioscorea alata), also called Winged Yam as the stem is square with ‘wings’ at each corner. It is a twining plant which likes to climb over a fence or trellis (or 3 stakes in the ground would provide something for its winged stems to climb over). It responds to manure and mulching and can be very productive, growing large underground tubers from 2 to 20 kg in weight. Towards the end of the growing season in autumn dark brown oval shaped aerial bulbils set on the above ground stems, and these can be used for propagating more plants and for eating cooked by steaming, roasting, making into chips, etc. Yams have a sweet nutty flavour. Bulbils and underground tubers, when dug, store well in a cool dry place for many weeks. Yams are a useful survival food plant. Vines go dormant to the ground over winter, and as they are a heavy producer of stems and leaves, we put them through the mulcher before they go dormant, and use the mulch on garden beds. This plant was featured on Gardening Australia in July 2010. For the plants many medicinal uses, go to http://www.stuartxchange.org/Ubi.html 4 bulbils of Yams $6 (regular price $7 for 1) On all Specials, Pack and Post extra. To place an order for these SPECIALS of seed packets or plant material, please email us at stating - SPECIALS from Newsletter Aug 2010 - what you would like to order - your postal address, and you will be emailed a total, postage and ordering details. or phone 07 54411101 during Shipards Herb Farm open hours - Mon, Tues, Thurs, Sat, from 10 am to 2 pm. Shipards Herb Farm Catalogue for July 2010 is now available, please click on the following link Shipards Herb Farm catalogue We will update the catalogue 2 times a year, usually early January and July. |
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