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Now that the nice weather is arriving it’s great to be able to get out in the garden, but just as you settle down to lay in the sun you’re bound to notice the number of weeds that have sprung up from nowhere.
You could let them ruin your garden, or you could dig them up and let them ruin your summer. Or, as herbalist Karon Grieve suggests, you could take advantage of these garden invaders with a number of handy recipes.
1. Nettle Hair Care Rinse - For damaged hair and dandruff.
Ingredients:
1 cup of nettle tops
4 cups of boiling water
Method:
Mix one cup of nettle tops with four cups of boiling water and cool. Use this as a final rinse when washing hair and leave in.
2. Faux Spinach - Nettles are full of proteins and minerals.
Ingredients:
Nettles
Olive oil
Squeeze of lemon juice
Method:
Use the nettles in a soup, or serve like wilted spinach and boil the leaves in water, then serve with olive oil and lemon juice.
3. Prehistoric Nail Care - Horsetail is one of the oldest plants on earth and was growing abundantly at the time of the dinosaurs. It is full of silica which makes it perfect as a food for our nails.
Ingredients:
1tbsp horsetail chopped
1 cup boiling water
2 tsp honey
Method:
Soak the horsetail in water for half an hour, strain and stir in honey. Leave for a few days. Paint on to nails every evening for 14 days to really boost condition.
4. Skin Bath - To relieve eczema and sun burn rashes.
Ingredients:
1tbsp horsetail chopped
1 cup boiling water
Method:
Make horsetail tea and add to bath.
5. Sticky Willy - Real name is Cleavers. This was the original diet food and has been used for hundreds of years. It is packed with anti oxidents and minerals that are really good for you.
Ingredients:
Sticky Willy
Hot water
Method:
Chop and wilt like spinach, eat as a vegetable to lose weight, or make sticky willy tonic tea.
6. Chick Weed - Cool Chick Soothing Oil, excellent for eczema and rashes.
Ingredients:
Chickweed
Sunflower Oil
Method:
Fill a jar with chickweed and cover with sunflower oil. Steep for 2 weeks then strain. Also use a tablespoon in the bath.
7. Weedy Salad - A tasty salad of leaves, herbs and weeds for you to try, really tasty and different.
Ingredients:
Dandelion leaves
Chickweed
Hawthorn leaves
Wild garlic
Method:
Mix together into a salad.
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