Recommended:

1. Sage – good for sore throat
2. Lemon Balm – (can be invasive)
3. Oregano
4. Echinacea root
5. Fever few
6. Elder flowers –
7. Calendula (plant different varieties)
8. horhound
9. ashuaganda
10. straw flowers
11. peppermint – digestion
12. Hyssop
13. marshmallow
14. Holy Basil

Questions that you need to think about:

1. What ailments?
2. cold stratification (does it need to experience cold?
3. Is it a perennial?
4. Used for different purposes. (Peppermint is an example)

Places you can get the seeds:

1. Seed savers exchange
2. Eden brothers
3. Floret farms
4. Heirlooms roses

Companion planting

1. Add plants the deer don’t like

How to source them:

1. Seeds
2. live plants
3. root stalk (bought online)
4. local gardeners

Tips for avoiding pests

1. Be in your garden. 
2. Prune your plants 
3. Know that you have to deal with pests

Horn Worms (green worms)

1. Not easy to find – black droppings 
2. Chemical free treatment – prune the plant (only foliage not covering the fruit)
3. Organic Pesticides – BT
4. examine plants often. 

Spider Mites (spiders with webs)

1. Like dusty plants 
2. Chemical-free -Pruned off the damage. rinse the whole plant off.
3. Organic Pesticides – Dr. Earth Final Stop Yard and Garden (all essential oils)

Aphids (many small eggs in clusters)

1. Don’t let your plants touch
2. Spray the plants with water. 
3. Do it again.
4. Use essential oils – warm water, dawn, essential oils. Make sure you soak the backs of the leaves. 
5. Peppermint Neem oil ( 1/2 gallon water, 5-1 tsp 100% organic neem oil, 10 drops peppermint oil and a squirt dish soap (soak daily for two weeks)

Cabbage Loopers (eggs) – around lettuce, cucumbers, spinach – leave leaves looking like Swiss cheese. 

1. Smush the eggs
2. Organic pesticides – Bt

Ants ( attract aphids)

1. Sprinkle diatomaceous earth
2. Borax and jelly (equal parts) paste to attract the ants
3. Citrus oil solution 
4. Insecticidal soap

Grape Leaf Skeletonizer 

1. Remove the leaf and step on it. 
2. Check every day. 
3. Organic pesticides- Bt

Don’t use the pesticides, just knock squish the insects.