Guest guest Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Glad to see you here Bryan! Please keep posting. Your post are always so helpful. Love this herb of the week. You have your own folder here on my computer - so your Dad. Hugs, Kathy - Bryan Shillington herbal remedies Monday, March 22, 2010 3:38 PM {Herbal Remedies} Fwd: Herb of The Week. ~B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Herb of the week: Purslane You may have seen this plant in your yard but were not aware of how truly valuable it is. This happy little plant creeps across your yard and sprouts up in cracks on the sidewalks and streets of most US cities. Contains: alpha-linolenic acid, one of the highly sought-after Omega-3 fatty acids and Purslane is also high in vitamins A,C and E. Purslane contains a very high concentration of Omega-3 -- several times the concentration in spinach. Valued: as a survival food, medical herb and garden ornamental. Taste-wise: Purslane tastes like lettuce but is very juicy-- its a culinary delight when sauteed or tossed in a salad! Growing Conditions: Purslane is very drought tolerant but does like good compost and rich soil. Grows very well in pots and is considered a pot herb. Also makes a great edible ground cover if you pull out grass and other useless weeds. Different varieties Purslane can make your yard into a delicious, nutritious bouquet. Purslane is very hardy and a hard plant to kill. It produces more florescent blue seeds then any other plant I know of. This must be why it is so easy to grow. My Garden tips for Purslane would be to identify some in your area and help your ignorant neighbors out by charging them a small fee to dig up their weeds. Plant them in your yard. :-) More power to the Purslane! ~B Brought to you by Organic Solutions and The Smoky Mountain Trading Post. Phone #828-389-3999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Thanks for the hugs Kathy. I intend to keep posting my notes/ essays regarding medicinal plants I'm studying. My sincere apologies for being off line for so long. I like to ignore technology and run off into the mountains sometimes. Hugs Back ~Bryan Journeyman Herbalist Academy of Natural Healing On 3/22/2010 2:10 PM, Kathy wrote: Glad to see you here Bryan! Please keep posting. Your post are always so helpful. Love this herb of the week. You have your own folder here on my computer - so your Dad. Hugs, Kathy ----- Original Message ----- Bryan Shillington To: herbal remedies Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 3:38 PM Subject: {Herbal Remedies} Fwd: Herb of The Week. ~B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Wow I live in the mountains - I can't understand why anyone would want to do that lol. Q for ya. Since I do live in the hills surrounded by nothing but green in the summer (its still depressing brown here now) I would like to get a book to help identify what all is out here. I have allot of the Purslane you posted earlier and did not even realize it. Can you recommend one? Thanks, K - Bryan Shillington herbal remedies Monday, March 22, 2010 6:46 PM Re: {Herbal Remedies} Fwd: Herb of The Week. ~B Thanks for the hugs Kathy. I intend to keep posting my notes/ essays regarding medicinal plants I'm studying.My sincere apologies for being off line for so long. I like to ignore technology and run off into the mountains sometimes.Hugs Back~BryanJourneyman Herbalist Academy of Natural HealingOn 3/22/2010 2:10 PM, Kathy wrote: Glad to see you here Bryan! Please keep posting. Your post are always so helpful. Love this herb of the week. You have your own folder here on my computer - so your Dad. Hugs, Kathy - Bryan Shillington herbal remedies Monday, March 22, 2010 3:38 PM {Herbal Remedies} Fwd: Herb of The Week. ~B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Very cool Thanks a million! - Bryan Shillington herbal remedies Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:09 PM Re: {Herbal Remedies} Fwd: Herb of The Week. ~B I highly recommend Peterson's Field Guide / Medicinal Plants and Herbs. Take this book on your morning walks to identify the plants roadside and in your yard.But why wait to buy a book? Glance over my Wild Harvesting 101 online now. Enjoy.~BOn 3/22/2010 10:25 PM, Kathy wrote: Wow I live in the mountains - I can't understand why anyone would want to do that lol. Q for ya. Since I do live in the hills surrounded by nothing but green in the summer (its still depressing brown here now) I would like to get a book to help identify what all is out here. I have allot of the Purslane you posted earlier and did not even realize it. Can you recommend one? Thanks, K - Bryan Shillington herbal remedies Monday, March 22, 2010 6:46 PM Re: {Herbal Remedies} Fwd: Herb of The Week. ~B Thanks for the hugs Kathy. I intend to keep posting my notes/ essays regarding medicinal plants I'm studying.My sincere apologies for being off line for so long. I like to ignore technology and run off into the mountains sometimes.Hugs Back~BryanJourneyman Herbalist Academy of Natural HealingOn 3/22/2010 2:10 PM, Kathy wrote: Glad to see you here Bryan! Please keep posting. Your post are always so helpful. Love this herb of the week. You have your own folder here on my computer - so your Dad. Hugs, Kathy - Bryan Shillington herbal remedies Monday, March 22, 2010 3:38 PM {Herbal Remedies} Fwd: Herb of The Week. ~B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 I highly recommend Peterson's Field Guide / Medicinal Plants and Herbs. Take this book on your morning walks to identify the plants roadside and in your yard. But why wait to buy a book? Glance over my Wild Harvesting 101 online now. Enjoy. ~B On 3/22/2010 10:25 PM, Kathy wrote: Wow I live in the mountains - I can't understand why anyone would want to do that lol. Q for ya. Since I do live in the hills surrounded by nothing but green in the summer (its still depressing brown here now) I would like to get a book to help identify what all is out here. I have allot of the Purslane you posted earlier and did not even realize it. Can you recommend one? Thanks, K ----- Original Message ----- Bryan Shillington To: herbal remedies Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 6:46 PM Subject: Re: {Herbal Remedies} Fwd: Herb of The Week. ~B Thanks for the hugs Kathy. I intend to keep posting my notes/ essays regarding medicinal plants I'm studying. My sincere apologies for being off line for so long. I like to ignore technology and run off into the mountains sometimes. Hugs Back ~Bryan Journeyman Herbalist Academy of Natural Healing On 3/22/2010 2:10 PM, Kathy wrote: Glad to see you here Bryan! Please keep posting. Your post are always so helpful. Love this herb of the week. You have your own folder here on my computer - so your Dad. Hugs, Kathy ----- Original Message ----- Bryan Shillington To: herbal remedies Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 3:38 PM Subject: {Herbal Remedies} Fwd: Herb of The Week. ~B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Brian, I have even taken potted-up purslane to the farmers' market, partly as an educational thing. Some people knew the value and didn't have it and bought some, yeah! But are you telling us that the ornamental varieties are edible/usable too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Brian, GREAT pictures on your website! Pictures of plants are so often hard to read. In my first year on the continent, 1969, I had acquired "Stalking the Wild Asparagus" by Euell Gibbons and "How to survive in the woods" by Bradford Angier. If memory serves me both mentioned Lamb's Quarters. Once we moved to the country the next year I walked through the woods trying to find them. Later I found out that they were the weeds I had been diligently pulling out of my first garden. The pictures had not been clear enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Hmm. I'm not sure. You see to me, all so called weeds like Purslane, Dandelion, Chickweed and Spiderwort are ornamental. My abnormal viewpoint sees vegetables, herbs, fruit & nut trees to be the most pleasing to my eye for I can eat them. Just like most folks would see great beauty in a room full of hundred dollar billz; I look upon wild edibles and edibles of any sort like a rabbit eying the lettuces patch. So Ornamental means different things to different people. They have created and now plant Ornamental Orange trees in some Florida cities. I am horrified and see no beauty in an Orange tree that does not produce fruit. They, (who ever these nature meddling, god playing humans are) have done this with all sorts of trees, herbs and vegetables. Have some varieties of Purslane been twisted? I hope not. All the different flower colors are suspicious though. I do know that the common Purslane ( the one with the yellow blooms) is gold. Rock on for bringing Purslane to your farmers market and educating your local growers. Education is the only possible way of saving natures plant species from humans and the balance of Terra. For being part of the solution; I admire you more than word can express. Thank you for teaching that which has almost be lost. ~B On 3/26/2010 12:06 AM, Ieneke van Houten wrote: Brian, I have even taken potted-up purslane to the farmers' market, partly as an educational thing. Some people knew the value and didn't have it and bought some, yeah! But are you telling us that the ornamental varieties are edible/usable too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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