Jackpine Radical Gardening

They have natural insecticide compounds too.

I’m astounded at my pot of chrysanthemums. They’ve hung in there and sort of existed for a couple of years. This year they’ve about tripled in size in spite of three plus weeks of evacuation and no water, and this week three days without power, which means no water. They’re blooming like crazy. Everything else is limp, dead or dying.

@njcher

I’ve noticed here in SW PA that mums seem to be more brilliant. I’ve never included them in my garden, but I’m just getting started in retirement to develop a good all around the house thing. It’s inspiring to see it.

Over the past week to 10 days, I’ve been putting my garden to bed. Nothing left but a few lettuce plants grown for the fall. And a few clumps of hardy flowers. All else is dirt-brown or getting close. My asparagus is the current king of the plot. 200 sq feet of ferns just now beginning to shed their chlorophyll.

All gone but.for the canned…[Read more]

OK, thanks!!

@haikugal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarvillea_sinensis

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26527075/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10514316/

The plant has been used in traditional Chinese medicine as an analgesic and as a treatment for rheumatism. Incarvillateine isolated from Incarvillea sinensis has demonstrated significant analgesic…

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@babel17

• This is what comes up with a search for Incarvillea Sinensis. I’m a little confused…thanks!

Thanks for hooking me up with the documentary and I will send you an IM for the rest. Woohoo…this is great.

Funny enough the best deal on it that I know of comes from an online retailer of Kratom. They sell several kinds of herbs. I use that and their Skullcap, as well as their Kratom.

Full disclosure, they once sent me a free bag of Kratom to review. 🙂

@haikugal

If you like I’ll PM you the names of two good forums for Kratom users, and one Facebook group as well.

Avoid the Kratom extracts unless you have major pain and the regular Kratom is too hard to assimilate in the amounts needed. Some people do get addicted to the extracts.

If you have Netflix, here’s a…[Read more]

@gzeush I think there are a couple of varieties. It’s al over the web but I thought maybe someone here has actually used it or harvested and made something from it. Look what’s on eBa…[Read more]

Thanks anyway @Elias39 Your response is appreciated.

I need something to help with pain from time to time. I can’t take anything but acetaminophen due to an illness and Tylenol doesn’t touch my pain sometimes. Also it helps with sleep. I’m thinking of trying out a tea (drying the Lactuca virosa) or making it into tincture or resin to use in alcohol. Some people smoke it but I don’t smoke anymore,…[Read more]

I usually think of lettuce as food, with little in the way of medicinal value.  Apparently, Plants for a Future has a higher opinion of it.  Here is a link to their entry for prickly lettuce:  https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Lactuca+serriola

What is it you want to do with your lettuce?

sorry @haikugal