Spring walkabout

I consider myself to be an Earth witch or a green witch or possibly a hedge witch (I’m not mad on titles🤣🤣), as such I don’t really do spells or burn incense much, my craft revolves around the seasons I celebrate the major sabbats in my own way as markers of the year. And spend much of the time foraging and learning about the plants that grow and can be used round the year as part of the flow nature .

So as such I thought I would do a bit of a walk round my garden this time of year and show what have at my fingertips and some of the things I use them for.

Wild Garlic

Wild garlic is one of my favourite plants, it tastes great and I use all the time in my cooking in place of regular garlic, it’s high in vitamin c (45mg per 100g of greens) it is medically proven to reduce cholesterol and reduce blood pressure, it can be used to help with colds and flu, I use it in curry’s, pasta , with scrambled eggs. And is particularly good as as potato and garlic soup.

Cow Parsley

Cow parsley is quite often overlooked as a herb possibly because it can be mistaken for the poisonous Hemlock so take care with identifying. It’s young leaves can be used as seasoning dried or fresh in soups and pasta dishes, not many healing qualities have been identified but it is full of antioxidants so can be used as a healthy boost.

Dandelions

This plant has so many uses and benefits I can’t list them all but you can eat and use every part of this plant, the leaves and greens are great in salads the flowers can be fried as fritters or used as edible cake decorations the roots can be dried and used as a coffee substitute. It’s packed with so many vitamins A C E B6 riboflavin thiamine calcium and iron to name a few, it’s been used as herbal medicine for stomach and liver complaints as well as respiratory and circulation ailments Dandelion really is a super food that’s overlooked in modern times.

Nettles

The good old staple of sting nettles has been used through the ages for many things again packed with vitamins it was used as a spring tonic for many years and is good as a herbal tea boiling water quickly destroys the stinging hairs making it safe to drink , the stings have recently been shown to help with hay fever sufferers as can help with the body’s antihistamine response, it was and is still widely used as a textile dye and the fibres of the stems can be woven into string and used as part of other textiles .

Well that’s a small sample of things I have in my garden I also grow herbs and vegetables for use and continue to study uses and cultivate some of the more useful weeds where I can . If you like this let me know and I will do a few more and share some of resources. I hope you enjoy this and maybe feel inspired to go out and see what you have growing out there :blush: