Loved it! Great info/conversation regarding some of the most favorite herbs around!
Hope I'm not intruding on this thread, 'cus I sure ain't dealing with the worries of drinking red raspberry tea while pregnant, in any trimester or the like. However I have often used raspberry leaves - red and black - to cure scours in my goats and rabbits! (Not to insinuate ya'll pregnant folks have scours...just trying to fit into the conversation at hand.)
Ya'll sure covered some great herbs, cultivated as well as wild ones. Great idea, great info.
From plaintain to achillea (we use them both for bee stings and bites here) to yellow dock. I think it's great that our NC "weeds" grow out there in Texas, or vice-versa.
Trish, you spoke of trouble growing rosemary. I still have prostrate rosemary (referred to as creeping rosemary in the podcast, which is a term I like better) that you sent me years ago when ya'll lived in Tennessee. I should get off my duff and send you some cuttings and maybe it is magical enough to grow well in Texas. Heck, maybe it'll remember you!
I was happy to hear Dave mention the coriander/cilantro plant. I tell my market customers it is actually "three plants in one"-- the leafy growth cilantro, the seeds coriander, but in-between those the feathery growth is often referred to as Chinese parsley. The flavor changes slightly but is still highly favorable so don't give up on it just because the leaf structure/form changes.
Thanks again for a nice podcast.
And Dave, have fun at your next lecture(s) coming up...sounds like a good time for everyone.
Best,
Shoe (itchin' for mint to re-emerge)
