tel: 512 280-1192 Thursday, April 21, 2016
Nursery notes: rose special extended through this weekend: buy
3 roses and get free bag of Rose Magic. Cinco de Mayo, Belinda's
dream, knock-outs and much more in stock. Fragrant confederate/
star jasmine does well in shade or sun: $34.99. For insect control,
use insects! Live ladybugs and praying mantis egg sacks: $11.99.
Brighten the shady spot in your garden with the hard-to-believe
colors of coleus. $1.50 each. Fight mosquitoes with lemongrass
and citronella - both in stock. Last call for tomatoes. Please drop
by for a visit!
Make your own natural chandelier: a simple and charming
project involving pliable branches, floral wire and string lights -
suggested by the garden writers at Sunset Magazine🌷
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Spring garden party: 'When winter sheds her dry brown coat
for the green blanket of spring, it’s cause for celebration,' writes
Meredith Steele in a recent issue of Edible Dallas. She presents
seven recipes for your party, including Texas rye punch, apricot
and curry pastries and strawberry and goat cheese popovers.
Edible Dallas 🌷
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What the heck is permaculture? A clear explanation appeared
in a recent post from Modern Farmer. Think of it as 'a holistic,
living-in-harmony-with-nature worldview, as well as technical
approach for how to do so.' Learn all about closed loop systems,
eco-earthworks and more from writer Brian Barth 🌷
Spring garden party: 'When winter sheds her dry brown coat
for the green blanket of spring, it’s cause for celebration,' writes
Meredith Steele in a recent issue of Edible Dallas. She presents
seven recipes for your party, including Texas rye punch, apricot
and curry pastries and strawberry and goat cheese popovers.
Edible Dallas 🌷
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What the heck is permaculture? A clear explanation appeared
in a recent post from Modern Farmer. Think of it as 'a holistic,
living-in-harmony-with-nature worldview, as well as technical
approach for how to do so.' Learn all about closed loop systems,
eco-earthworks and more from writer Brian Barth 🌷
A free picnic concert celebrating farmers, gardens & nature
will be held at YardFarm (7204 Shelton Road, 78725) at 7:30 p.m.
on Saturday, April 30. Music by Bucolics Anonymous, with Thom
the World Poet, and speakers George Altgelt, Joe Diffie and Mike
Quinn . Bring a picnic, a blanket to sit on, and some drinks.
garden celebration. [Sponsors: It's About Thyme Green Man Coffee House]
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Central Texas Gardener: an herbal chat with author Lucinda
Hutson; a tour of the American Botanical Council’s gorgeous east
Austin gardens; plant of the week - big red sage, popular with
butterflies and bees; home-made herbal scrubs with Trisha. Satur-
day at 4 p.m Sunday at 9 a.m. or on-line: KLRU
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Miraculous Moringa Trees
by David K. Sargert
Recently while doing some research for our new medicinal / heal-
ing garden, my wife shared an article with me on the Moringa tree,
and the more I read, the more fascinated I became.
First of all, the Moringa, also known as the 'Drumstick Tree,' is
nearly entirely edible. It can grow with little water, has multiple
times the amount of nutrients as oranges, carrots and milk, and
grows very well in regions of malnutrition. Could this impressive
tree, Moringa oleifra, solve the world's food crisis? Many are con-
vinced it will.
The Moringa is a distant relative of cabbage and papaya. Its roots
taste so much like its cousin horseradish, that sometimes people
called it the horseradish tree.
The fruit, a popular Indian vegetable, looks like a cross between
an okra and a pole bean, and has the flavor of asparagus. The tree's
cooked flowers mimic mushrooms in taste, while the leaves hint
at spinach and lettuce. Its immature seeds are used like peas, and
if you fry them when mature, they resemble peanuts.
In fact, it’s hard to find a part of the Moringa tree that isn’t edible.
Even the bark is sometimes taken internally for diarrhea. Locals
consider it a living pharmacy.
The Moringa has proven to be a multi-purpose arsenal that dispenses
some of the best secrets nature has to offer. For centuries it has been
used in ancient Indian 'Ayurvedic' herbalism to treat a host of ail-
ments such as anemia, bronchitis, tumors, scurvy, and skin infections.
Drought hardy and disease resistant, the Moringa Tree is a godsend
during the dry season, when little food is available. The leaves offer
a spectrum of nutrition, rich in vitamins A, B, and C, as well as
protein, calcium, and iron.
They are so nutritious, in fact, that they contain more vitamin A
than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges, more calcium than milk,
more iron than spinach, more potassium than bananas, and more
protein than either milk or eggs! A traditional item in pickles and
curries, the raw leaves are also perfect for salads.
Like the leaves, the flowers too are edible when cooked, packed
with calcium and potassium. As a bonus, they are incredibly frag-
rant, and help support native bee populations.
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The 'drumsticks' contain the nine essential amino acids that humans
must obtain exclusively from their diet. Hidden within the drum-
sticks are even more remarkable seeds. Loaded with protein, they
also contain special non-toxic polypeptides that act as natural Brita
filters.
When ground into powder and mixed with water, they cause sed-
iments to clump together and settle out. Then when strained through
a cloth, they provide cheap access to clean water. Amazingly, just
seeds are enough to purify a liter of dirty water.
In turn, the seeds themselves yield valuable yellow oil called ben
oil. Sweet, clear, and odorless, it doesn’t spoil easily - perfect for
perfumes, cosmetics, and lubrication. It's also used for cooking
due to its high levels of healthy unsaturated fats.
In one serving of Moringa leaves, you can find: 22% daily value
of vitamin C, 41% daily value of potassium, 61% daily value of
magnesium, 71% daily value of iron, 125% daily value of calcium,
272% daily value of vitamin A, 92 nutrients, 46 antioxidants, 36
anti-inflammatories,18 amino acids, and 9 essential amino acids.
For such a versatile tree, it’s almost hard to believe that the Mor-
inga can be grown easily via seeds or cuttings all around the world,
including here in the Hays and Travis counties.Happy gardening
everyone!
everyone!
Moringa trees in stock: $6.99 for 6 - 8" tree. They are extremely
fast-growers, and will be over 6 feet tall by October.
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