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Sonnenuntergang in Fürstenfeld
Sunset in Fürstenfeld
07.11.2021, 16:26
Die Pflanze ist Raps.
The plant is rapeseed.
Historically, fleabane was burned or dried in sachets to repel fleas, gnats, flies, and all other manner of tiny, annoying creatures, though there is little evidence of its effectiveness as an insect repellent.
Complete mini tomato plant with a height of about 30cm only in it's flowerpot on the terrace. The first unripe green tomato is already visible!
There are lots of little olive fruits but most of them will not survive due to the middle european climate :-(
Aloe Vera plant is most useful spiny plant also it is the best herbal medicine since the beginning of the first century. It is a member of the lily and onion family. Aloe Vera plants are commonly found in the African regions or in some part of india.
Dealers in Raw Furs, Roots, Herbs, Barks, Leaves, Berries, Pecans, Scrap Metal
Sterling, Glynn County GA
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I didn't see a bulrush in real life till 5 years ago in Canada, when I visited some lakes in Manitoba with my sister and cousins from Winnipeg. They were like velvet lollipops, quite fascinating to touch, and when my cousins told me they would explode into seeds I cut off a couple and smuggled them home in my shoes (the ones in my luggage). They sat out on the terrace till autumn when they started bursting open - and a cloud of millions of seeds floated over the garden for days.
Apparently birds use the fluff for lining their nests, and Native American women stuffed things with it, instead of kapok.
And here is some more information lifted from wikipedia (which calls them cattails):
Cattails have a wide variety of parts that are edible to humans. The rhizomes are a pleasant, nutritious and energy-rich food source, generally harvested from late Autumn to early Spring. These are starchy, but also fibrous, so the starch must be scraped or sucked from the tough fibers. In addition to the rhizomes, cattails have little-known, underground, lateral stems that are quite tasty. In late spring, the bases of the leaves, while they are young and tender, can be eaten raw or cooked. As the flower spike is developing in early summer, it can be broken off and eaten like corn on the cob. In mid-summer, once the male flowers are mature, the pollen can be collected and used as a flour supplement or thickener. Cattails have also recently been suggested as a source of oil.
The boiled rootstocks have been used for increasing urination, or used mashing, to make a jelly-like paste for sores, boils, wounds, burns, scabs, inflammations, and smallpox pustules.
The downy material was also used by Native Americans as tinder for starting fires.
Native American tribes also used cattail down to line moccasins, provide bedding, diapers, baby powder, and papoose boards. An Indian name for cattail meant, “fruit for papoose’s bed”. Today some people still use cattail down to stuff clothing items and pillows.
A small garden scene at the water source is like an oasis in the mountains. When it is difficult to find water, the challenge is economical. How much water will it cost to find more? How much water will I get in return and what quality?
Aldo Leopold Wilderness, New Mexico.
Ways of Finding Water in Arid Country
1. Local Knowledge
The easiest way is to consult with experts or having experience in the area. You need a manner of getting there (e.g. map, compass/GPS or memory).
2. Read The Landscape
Both visually and with the map, check for major drainages on North slopes. Usually intermittent streams and springs are more reliable in these areas. If out of the mountains look for depressions, fissures, wet sand. Look for vegetation, especially for types that like water.
3. Bare Rock
Water and hard rock tend to form pools over time due to erosion patterns. On watertight rock these pools will not drain. Water source can be intermittent stream or rainwater, collected into the pools.
4. Vegetable Tubers
Many tubers are edible and they usually contain a lot of water. You'll want to find significant tubers to make it worth the digging. Fern is often used as an example. Fore more plants, see section "Edible Tubers Bulbs or Roots": www.swsbm.com/ManualsOther/UsefulPlants/Useful_Wild_Plant...
5. Collecting Dew
Walk through plants wet with dew or rain while wearing some clean absorbent cloth. If you're in grassy or leafy area you can very quickly soak the material. Wring it out into collection. Repeat.
5. Solar Still - cavity type
(emergency measure only)
Requiring some clear plastic sheeting and at least 1 m of tubing. Dig a wide shallow hole in the proportions of 1-2 meter diameter to wrist-elbow depth. Arrange a lot of water-bearing material (e.g. crushed vegetation) at the bottom, spread evenly around up to hand depth. Snuggle into the center a collection container facing upward to catch drops of condensation. Run the tubing from the collection to outside the hole and secure it. Cover hole with plastic sheeting to create a greenhouse. Secure the sheeting. Place a stone in the middle of the sheeting so that it depresses into the shape of a cone, with the tip facing inward toward the collection container in the hole. Condensation will collect on the inner side of the sheeting and drip into collection. The tubing allows for sipping from collection without opening the greenhouse (try not to disturb the plastic sheeting). This solar still can be reliable, but is not very productive. A human would need perhaps up to a dozen of them going every day to survive by that water alone. So it is good for supplement, but not sustainable unless you're carrying a lot of plastic sheeting and tubing.
6. Solar Still - transpiration type
(emergency measure only)
Find a tree or bush of non-toxic nature and put a bunch of a leafy branch into a large plastic bag and tie it off. Essentially it's like giving one branch of the tree a plastic glove. Except the glove doesn't breathe. It needs to be a greenhouse so the moisture evaporating from the live leaves will be trapped in the bag and collect at the bottom. Arrange the bag so that one corner is lower than than the rest. This makes for easy tap of the bag to pull water out whilst not disturbing the greenhouse. Depending on the vegetation this type of solar still may be more effective than the cavity type noted above in #5. But sustaining on this alone would require at least several stills if not many.
7. Tree Seep
(emergency measure only)
Also known as wetwood, it usually can be spotted as a dark spot up in a tree, perhaps at a major crotch or at a wound in the trunk. By tapping the seep some water can be obtained. But it requires some effort and damage to the tree. Also the water can be rich in micro-organisms that could cause sickness if not treated.
Video demonstrating and explaining some of the practices in this order: tree seep, solar still (cavity type), solar still (transpiration type), tubers, dew collection
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIOCPzn38vo
More General Methods
www.americansnetworkingtosurvive.org/Find_Water_In_The_Wi...
"That darned blooming Mesquite!" Often called far worse when the long Mesquite thorns make a tire flat or go through the bottom of a shoe. Mesquite has many medicinal & nutritional uses. From the bark to the beans, resin & flowers. The Native Americans knew that this plant had much to give.
This offeres some general information on Mesquite but I urge you to do your homework on this interesting plant. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite
Grows in the Edwards Plateau in Texas, This plant loves limestone & rocky ledges.
Fruit can be eaten raw but more usually cooked in preserves & the seeds can be roasted & used as a coffee substitute.
I didn't care for these all that much until they opened up and attracted a bunch of really pretty sweet little birds. Now I like them much better. I have lots of them.
The flowers of the sickle bush Dichrostachys cinerea, a deciduous bush or small tree growing up to 7m tall. It is browsed by most browsing game species, but becomes invasive on over-grazed soils where it forms impenetrable thickets. Used in traditional medicine a remedy for toothache and stomach aches is made from the bark, chewed roots are placed on snake and scorpion bites and powdered bark is used for all kinds of skin ailments. Also called Kalahari Christmas Tree and Chinese lantern.
The upper part of the flower is sterile, while the yellow lower half is bisexual.
The flowers are produced between October to Febuary. Photographed in the Kruger National Park, South Africa (with 50-500mm lens).
Hand coloured engraving, engraved by Weddell after a drawing by Clarke. Published as plate 159 in Stephenson and Churchill's 'Medical Botany, or, Illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopœias', London, 1834-36
Chuck Marsh was the lead trainer on the PDC with Patricia Allison. He trained with the granddaddy of permaculture, Bill Mollision and has been cultivating plants and souls for 35 years.
Chuck lives at Earthaven permaculture ecovillage where he has a nursery selling medicinal herbs and all varieties of fruit trees. A wonderful resource.
Bob Burns has been a permaculturist for years. He trained with Bill Mollison many years ago and is a veritable encyclopedia of plant knowledge.
He started his own homestead living in a cardboard cabin, growing food, and living virtually off grid.
Tobacco is a member of the Solanaceae family, along with tomatoes and potatoes. Its aromatic leaves are used in making cigarettes, cigars and pipe and chewing tobacco. A number of cultivars are grown as ornamentals.
Tobacco was domesticated some 8,000 years ago. Natives were growing it in the Americas long before Europeans arrived. It was part of many ceremonies, where it was smoked, inhaled, chewed, steeped, taken as snuff or offered to the Great Spirits to invoke their blessings.
Some of the earliest settlers in Quebec grew tobacco as a cash crop. Today, as a result of anti-smoking campaigns and freer international trade, very little tobacco is grown here commercially.
This perennial native to North America, Asia and Europe has been cultivated since Antiquity as a condiment plant and for its nectar, which attracts bees. In fact, Melissa comes from a Greek word meaning "honey bee".
The leaves have a lemony fragrance and flavour. They can be added fresh or dried to fish, rice, omelettes, salads and other dishes. They also make a fragrant addition to teas, herbal teas, liqueurs and cold beverages. Because their aroma is volatile, they should be added just before serving.