Organic Gardening Progress 9/27 - Week 6

This is my Week 6 since I started this blog on organic gardening progress.




Your can see my progress week by week here



This week we actually had more stuff to pick:

Parsley, arugula and kale

First almost red cherry tomato! :)

Radish

Sprouts

I was able to make fresh salad twice this week with greens from my garden, which was a progress!

Arugula, sprouts, radish, beet leaves

I think I figured out how to grow my sprouts. You can see I used an old container from salad greens with soil and keep it on a sunny window. So you can see the progress 

week 1

week 2 ready to eat

Updates in my garden:

More green tomatoes forming

Bell Pepper is getting bigger

Veggies in my main veggie bed start flowering and getting bigger. I picked arugula, radish and some beat leaves from here.

All Zucchinis keep flowering but still only male flowers... :(

This was my last week project. I planted cucumbers but then I've got strawberries in the mail, so I had to figure out where to plant them, so I added couple here too. :)

We had this cute visitor one night :)

Thanks for reading and happy gardening!

Grow Your Own Tea - Rose, Hibiscus, Mint and Lemon Leaves Teas Benefits

 I always knew herbal teas beneficial for our health but I just did an additional online search for different kind of tea we use in our everyday life. We try to use our own organic grown tea leaves from different plants we have in our garden. We mostly drink cold tea through the day and fresh hot tea in the evening.



Rose Petals/Rose hips tea benefits

I found Elena's Blog which actually describe 10 Therapeutic benefits of rose tea and roses.


My Tea Benefits also shares benefits of drinking rose petals tea. 

In short rose tea is a great source of Vitamin C as well as it helps with removing toxins, it can help with women health as well.


Hibiscus Tea



Let's move to Hibiscus. It's a little trickier to pick up hibiscus flowers because I always wait till they finish bloom and then pick them up.




Tori Hudson, ND wrote that drinking hibiscus tea can help with cholesterol and blood pressure maintenance.

Wise Geek wrote about hibiscus benefits for immune and digestive system as well as antioxidant and heart health.


Mint Tea

Mint is another ingredient of our daily tea and super easy to grow. This tea is great for different stomach issues, headache and sinus and much more.



Dr.Mercola shares 21 benefits of drinking mint tea here. 

Natural Therapy Pages shares an article on benefits of peppermint. 


Lemon Leaves Tea


One lady told me she is making a tea out of lemon leaves, so I wanted to explore this option since I never tried it before.

medicinalherbs-4u has some information about lime tree leaves but I think it should be pretty same for lemon tree leaves.

Gardening Central shares lemon leaves recipe and benefits here

After reading these articles I might try to brew some lemon leaves tea.

Thanks for reading and share about your favorite homemade tea recipe.