What Herbs Should You Grow for Your Medicinal Herb Garden 

Your boldness in talking about your faith is inspiring. Thanks for this video!

I just recently started using wild lettuce. I forage and extract it myself. At 500mg, my asthma completely clears up, flemm and all. I don’t cough like I normally do and the lung freedom is way better then Albuterol or Symbicort. It takes about an hour, but it also clears my sinus cavities and is better then a typical nasal spray to me.

Who needs a book when we have Heidi!!! 🌿🌼🌸😍👍

I just tried to subscribe , but , RU-vid says I have too many subscriptions !!!! Keep making gardening videos and I'll keep watching !!!! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 Thank you very much !!!!

Love how you give us scripture❣️ To share how God has given us all we need Wish I had this information when I was a young mom!!! Well I’ll be researching, studying and learning a new as a grandma 🙏🏼

I've made wild lettuce salve. It works incredibly for pain. Typically I would not share with as it is homemade. My two friends used small amounts. One for knee pain, the other on back pain. They were both flabbergasted at the relief.

Your channel has taught me so much. I thank God for you.

Wow you are such wonderful communicator to give us such recipes for so many things! I am sure it takes so much of your time to do this! Thank you and God bless!

Oh my goodness!! I totally agree with you on big farma and herbs. I take 7 different meds a day. And I also have hypothyroidism. I have been really thinking about going all natural for my health. Yes, God has created all these natural things for us to use. Thank you for posting, you have really encouraged me.

I would love for you to write a book about herbs and how to use them. You're a wealth of useful information.

That's wonderful that you have both gotten off of your thyroid medication! And as an Agnostic person, who has two science (Biology) degree, I TOTALLY agree with you that nature is meant to sustain us, not all these synthetic drugs. I'm 52 and don't take any medications whatsoever. And I don't have pain or any maladies. I just eat organic and try to avoid sugar and stay as close to nature as I can in all parts of my life. I think one of the huge things ALL people, regardless of how we define our spirituality, could agree on is that our physical vessels are of this earth and the earth is what nourishes and sustains us. I've studied ecology and animal behavior and one of my heroes is a scientist name Edward (E. O.) Wilson. He wrote many wonderful books but one of his greats is called "Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth" was a plea to religious people about protecting our mother earth, their God-given home. I recommend it. He's a wonderful man and many young biologists and ecologists have spent their lives trying to live up to his legacy. Thanks again for all your awesome and important educational videos! HUGS!

Thank you for another great vdeo. I moved house last year. Going to plant a specialised herb garden of medicinal and culinary herbs. i don't have a car and have not seen any good garden centres for herbs so was pleased when I found a good website in Ireland last night specialising in Medicinal herbs. Have watched your video today was brilliant information. Have ordered one herb book so far and a wild foraging book. Ruth

Just found your site. Your opinion on big farma is spot on. Me and my husband had a similar experience cholesterol meds and high blood pressure. No more big farma for us. It's been 4yrs now. God bless.

I always love your herb talks...I learn something new everytime! I couldn't agree more on the comparison of herbs and pharmaceuticals. It's a racket.

*The Complete Medicinal Herbal* has been my favorite reference book for years. It's fully illustrated and has a huge ailments guide in the back that lists all kinds of information for every herb you could think of. It also has great info on how to use different parts of plants and how to make poultices, pills, teas, essences, etc. Always my go-to

You amaze me…I want to grow everything you grow! I’M in VA but I need to grow what you grow! I need the benefits of what you grow! I’m so impressed!! I need to grow the good stuff God has given us!!!

This is amazing!! Where have you been all my life? I've just entered the world of medicinal herbs and wow, after watching your video, I feel educated. Thank you!

Thank you for sharing this wealth of information! I especially loved seeing the pictures of the different flowers w their names...I never knew what calendula and echinacea looked like in flower form...and never knew so many other flowers could be used medicinally! Love all your videos!

God IS Good All The Time! Praise God

~~~ Wonderful news , Mrs.Heidi this video will open even more doors of studying for me to help others. I do thank you so very much my lovely hearted friend. You are helping people that will help people. ....Mrs. Heidi and Patrick you are both a living joy....I pray for happiness all around you both.

I’m a believer like you,no new age! Thanks.Peace.

Another bookstore that I try to use is Half Priced Books. HPB started in the Pacific NW. (And it is not Amazon, although Amazon also started in the PNW. 😝 ) If a HPB store is close to you, you can call them and they will actually look for the book you want for you and then transfer it to your local store. But, they have an online store for used and new books. Their service is top notch! If you can get to a store, they also buy books, videos and all forms of music, LP albums, CDs, etc. My favorite bookstore since 1980s, and they have lots of branches now.

Heidi, thank you so much for sharing your time & talents. This is a wonderful video on growing medicinal herbs. I am sitting here planning out my wild garden and your input was priceless. I especially liked the end about Genesis. Yes, wild plants are God's gift! :)

So with your recommendations, I'm on the hunt. I have a black walnut tree, which is the neighbors, but it's invaded our yard over the 50 to 70 years that the houses have been here. I'm learning that a lot of the herbs I may be interested in will grow under it. The previous owners of the 2 houses had a huge flower garden that we dug under as new 20-year-old homeowners. Now that I'm interested in herbs, I'm realizing that there were a LOT of these herbs in that garden. There were even fiddle head ferns growing by the house that we dug up. I kick myself now, but I will get a small section of that back. You may not be a licensed expert, but you share enough knowledge to help get us started. For that, I'm thankful. Now I'm off to hunt for a book specific to the upper midwest. Have a great day!

Comfrey and Echinacea are new to my garden this year. Comfrey is also a finished compost as soon as you cut it. This is a perfect first video for herbs. Thank you!

Loved it! I think you’ve convinced me to give borage another try. ~Sarah

Amen Sister!!! I love your channel. The father has blessed you and you are blessing to us. 🙏🏼🙏🏼

I wish we were neighbors!! Thank-you so much for sharing all your knowledge! God bless you xx (from Sydney Australia)

Came across you a week or so ago and absolutely Iove the videos I have watched so far. So very helpful as I have only just really started on my natural/herbal life. Thank you for all you do and share. I have already got 6 or so books. Loving the research side of it all before I dive in to purchasing anything. Once we have a place with a garden, hopefully next year I will definitely start growing our own 😀 ❤️

Good morning Heidi. So glad you brought back this herb video. You have chosen my favorites to talk about! Rosa Rugosa is amazing. My brother-in-law forbids me to grow it because it gets in the hay fields. We already have an invasive rose that we are burning out. The Rugosa has more vitamin C than orange juice. I will buy the rose hips. Another one of my favorites is Rose Geranium. I use it for cake batters. Place a leaf or two on the bottom of your cake pan, cover with parchment paper and pour your white cake batter. The geranium will scent your cake like rose water. Comfrey makes me bervous. I use it for fertilizer tea or a salve. Love- LOVE Borage! It attracts our bees to the garden and is loaded with Omega 3. Super Bees :-) I like to sugar the blue blossoms and use it in the oil form. Thank you for sharing these herbs Heidi. Yes, do refer to a reliable herb reference book.

Hi ya Heidi!!! Not only do I appreciate ur knowledge on what u know, it is ur passion on/of it. A 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 I say to u on this video!!! Along time ago, coming to know that weeds were wild edibles, and their medicinal values, and knowing the creator of them, far outweighs medicines of man which can cause more problems. With the way this world is heading, it would be nice to grow them all, having ones own pharmacy will be a good item to barter with. Though with the time it takes to learn and know them all, I think I’ll start with the basics, the ones for colds and flu, antibiotics, and pain. Ur awesome Heidi! Thank u

I love all herbs, all knowledge of herbs. Just when you think you know everything about one…… boom new knowledge. My new current herb friend, Next to elderberry whose my favorite, berberine …. Amazing. Be blessed sister in God…… I love them all😳. Dandelion is also my favorite lol and blue spice basil is amazing

Excellent presentation always learn form your valuable information stay blessed...

Just the video I wanted! Thank you.

Cool! A borage popped up unexpectedly near my greenhouse! Thanks for the info, I learn something new everytime I watch you!

Excellent! Thank you. I'm also in the Pacific northwest. Very informative video. You've given me inspiration to not let these beautiful things go to waste because I already have a lot of these growing in the backyard.

i think you're awesome. I am making a new medicinal tea garden and I am growing all of the herbs you suggested this year and I'm so excited. Thanks.

I think you are right about 'rosa rugosa'. It also has the biggest rose hips also.

What a great tutorial!!! Thank you.❤❤❤

I’ve used both nasturtium and oregano tinctures for UTI problems. They both fix it. Oregano seems to work faster but I prefer the taste of the nasturtium.

I have been stung, chewed up a plantain leaf, and applied it. I had a bandana on hand and wrapped it around. It worked great! Also to anyone nervous about buying a used book without seeing it first I can say that I have several from Amazon that are in perfectly fine condition.

Rosa canina, or dog rose, is right up there with rosa rugosa, and many consider it THE best. It is usually used for commercial herbal rose products in health products

Another great video! Going to enlarge my herbs. This is so fun! Many blessings.

Michael Moore's books are the BEST books I have ever read. LOTS of research and much proven out in labs.

Yes to plantain 👍👍👍. I did the same with a hornet; felt something on the back of my arm, brushed it off without looking, but instead got stung between my fingers. Used plantain which helped a lot.

I have so many herbs growing in my yard now, my rosemary is four yrs. Old and is two feet high and as wide as me 😁 my thyme is about a foot high and a foot in a half wide. I have nasturtium s but I don't live in the right climate for yr round but that ok. I use them all for cooking and gifts to friends. I got Artichokes to grow here. Funny everyone said they wouldn't. I think you can grow it if you want just need the right spot👍Be ever so Blessed ❤ just so ya know I started out with brown thumbs .

Healing herbs and healing foods are really good books too. I have those.

Great video and topic. Thank you so much. Your channel is one of my "go to" trusted information. thank you and God Bless.

love your videos and yes natural is best and nature takes care of its own i;m just learning how to use herbs but cant wait to be able to heal myself

Love h Heidi, What a great video. I always learn so much from you!! I have that Rodale book too...and found it at a garage sale too...how funny!! We are kindred spirits!! Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge and sharing your recommendations with us. Love Rosemary’s and Amy’s books - both are great. And I love how you described Rosemary’s book as “new age-ie”...Yes!! LOL!! You definitely have to look over some of that!! LOL!! Love, Mary (So glad you like the Pacific NW book!! 😀) Love, Mary❤️😘❤️

I love used book websites like thriftbooks for this type of thing as well as garage sales. (People in my town love this kind of thing, so sometimes you can find some great stuff)

Thanks for the info indeed God gave us plants herbs to heal us

Wow I’m so glad I found this

I agree with you and believe God put here on earth everything we need. I am trying to get started this year on growing herbs and learning how to use them. Also trying to learn about the weeds around us as well. Thank you for the information you share.

I agree, we've added herbs every year, some have been failures for our zone but many more have been very successful. We also love horseradish and horehound. We also grow cilantro, I can not stand the smell or taste but when it goes to seed it' coriander and we like using this in our sausage and meat rubs. Speaking of vitamin C , we also use mountain ash berries( after a good frost) for making jam( tastes like orange marmalade) and dry the berries for use in teas because of the high vitamin C content. Buffalo berries are similar, but picking is a challenge with the thorns. Among our medicinal and culinary herbs are also dyeing herbs, that we grow to make our own dyes for wool, soaps, and other craft projects.

I cannot figure out why you don't have a million subscribers. I feel sorry for anyone who isn't subscribed to your channel. They are missing so much! I am going to send this link to some facebook groups now.

Go, Heidi ! Keep 'em comin' !

I bought marshmallow seeds from you and they all grew very good, I live in zone 9,I put one in a pot and is doing good,the other one is in the ground and doing great.

Came over from Living Traditions FB page and I'm in love with your channel. New subscriber! ❤❤

Since I live in SE Alaska, (a few hundred miles north of you :) ) I also have a lot of red elder growing (Sambucus Racemosa). The berries are edible both raw and cooked but if they're eaten raw they can cause diarrhea. I make a syrup of the berries and strain the seeds out (the seeds are supposed to cause severe digestive issues as they contain an alkaloid) and add it to my blue and black elderberry syrup. It is excellent for viral and bacterial illnesses as well as kidney issues. It also contains more vitamin C than the other elder species.

What a great video :) Thank you for sharing your information. I appreciate the effort it takes :) I think our gardens would have a great cup of tea together, they are so similar! I can testify to Comfrey healing my 'abdominal separation' [basically like a tummy hernia, from caring a bambino 24 years ago who put her foot through the muscle wall [that was weird] - and then too much building / heavy lifting] - BUT - a very simple balm made with home grown and dried Comfrey in raw Coconut oil is healing the muscle wall very nicely - and will be keeping me off an operating table!! Hari Bol! Praise Be! And my other big ones are Calendula, Thyme, Sage, and Tulsi too - especially made into strong tea and used as a mouth wash - it will heal gum and membrane issues, and has kept me away from the Periodontist ... or just drink as a hot tea for colds and flu type bugs... And it has healed my friends eczema - he hates 'hippy stuff' but was willing to try anything to stop the eczema from driving him crazy - now he tells everyone about it!! :) ... Just dried, and steeped in Coconut oil, then strained and ready for use - nothing fancy here :) Or putting the dried flowers into a 'bath bag' and bathing in Calendula cleans the skin right up from such ailments - great for babies / infants who have eczema and / or dry skin - simply put Calendula flowers in the bath too ! Easy peesy with such amazing results :) Gosh I love plants! So if using herbs can keep me away from such things like surgeons knives and dentist bills - the happier I can be :) All these wonderful plants where created for a reason - we are blessed to have the ability to have our own pharmacies in our yards - or even a pot of basil on the window - I think we are blessed to have such amazing plants around us - and the handed down knowledge of how to use them - I could rant forever :) To return the info favor and thank you :) - one of my fave herb books is called 'The Yoga of Herbs' ... is is written by a Western Herbalist and an Auravedic Doctor - the combination of the two perspectives is awesome, but not really for beginners - so much info - and very handy quick reference tables too. Thanks again for your work! Hari Bol, God Bless and Praise Be :) ~ e

Thank you verrryyy much dear Heidi...very true to know and recognize the herbs...not easy but feasible.....

Awesome. Best wishes to you and yours from The UK.

Now I'm convinced I need an herbal garden. Love the way you explain its uses.

This is so informative! Thank you so much! I’ll be watching more of your videos for sure!

We have wild white roses growing here! Thanks!

Heidi!!! I’m so blessed to have found you! Praise God! I was polydruged by my dr 10 years ago got sosick I lost my job! Now I’m growing my own food and I’m totally off ALL pharmaceuticals! Yay God! However, I’m taking NDT for my thyroid and wondering how you got off your thyroid meds? I’m going to watch ALL YOUR videos! I’m so jazzed I found you !!❤️❤️❤️

I try comfrey as cough reliever and vomited. But it worked good for kids. It grow well here. I transplanted 5 pierces this year and its going wild . And work good give tomatoes a boost when slow growing.

Thank you for such an informative video! Love all of your content! You should consider writing your own books!! Have a blessed day!

Great video - thanks for all the helpful information! For the past several months, I have been researching everything that I can about herbs. Still have so much to learn, but aspiring to be an herbalist and incorporate that into a healthy lifestyle. I just came across your channel, and you are quite the inspiration. I completely agree with you about big pharma and the high risks of bad side affects of their products, whereas mother nature offers many medicinal and healthy benefits without regards to profit or greed.

I love your channel....thank your for sharing your knowledge and opinions 🥰

I've had Lavender and raspberry ice cream, yum. Blessings folks.

Love your videos. Thanks for wonderful information. This weekend in my area we are having the Master Gardeners plant sale. I’m going to look for some information on these herbs. Thanks again.

An old beekeeper told me the absolute same thing. Always keep some on you when you're working your bees.

Thanks for the valuable information Heidi.

Good video..Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

Have just started borage for the first time, its funny you say it tastes like cucumber, the seedlings look similar to cucumber also

Great info. Thank you!

Holding both my thumbs up Heidi!

Thank you for doing this video. Your right medicinal herbs by Rosemary Gladstars, is a really good book, I bought it after one of your previous videos, helped so much. Dandelion does it dry well naturally, not in a drier, also does it keep well for a time?

Thank you for this. I took a lot of notes and will be ordering more seeds and plants. I did order borage, marshmallow and echinacea seeds from you already and they are sprouting.

Excellent advice as always Heidi. Thanks so much ❤️

My goats ate all my rosemary ..... I believe it's probably good for worms because they seemed to like a daily dose every day.. they did the same when they could with my lemon balm.

Thank you!! My peppermint is just barely started to germinate. 💜

I am supposed to be on thyroid meds, but they were way to expensive for me to purshase! Do you have a video on this? I agree about mixing different meds together! I hate taking meds, they try and fill you with all kinds of crap to take. Thanks for your great video's you are a wealth of knowledge. Much Blessings to you and yours!

Wonderful, informative video! When we finally get settled in Washington, we need to get together for a crash course on Pacific NW herbs. I can attest to the problems in the pharmaceutical world. I've been given medications that needed other medications to deal with all of the side effects. I am on one 'poison' that I am weaning myself off of after 15 years. The withdrawals are horrific, but doctors don't tell you about that, mostly because they don't know. Anyway, thanks for sharing this video. I am going to look for a used copy of the Pacific Northwest Medicinal Herbs book.

I am currently taking meadowsweet tincture for pain (added benefit is it is good for the tummy) which I am attempting to grow this year. I looked into the feverfew and catnip (after watching your videos), however, I am also on a daily regimen of turmeric tincture, for anti inflammatory properties, which is an anticoagulant of which feverfew is as well. The catnip I was unsure if cats are attracted to it when it is growing and we already have plenty of "barn" cats in the neighborhood what with the grainery a block away. Did not want to fight with them tearing up and pooping in my herb beds. I hope the meadowsweet does well here. I was diagnosed with RA & AS 12 years ago and after constantly getting sick and having infections I quit taking the pharma (with my doctor's approval too) and started working on my diet in addition to herbal medicine. I am doing very well most times and can tell that the herbs do help me. I feel my best during gardening season too! Moving around and having all those fresh vegetables and herbs is great for the health and the soul. Thanks for all that you share as I do believe you help so many with your experiences and guidance. God bless.

We planted elderberry so hopeful.

We have used catnip for pain also but I don’t have feverfew. It’s ok, and we didn’t get sick from it.

Excellent Excellent video Heidi. !!!

Oh I am so glad you told me about Mountain Herbs! They have my Moringa powder, capsules and all. I need something for cracked skin on my feet, any suggestions on something to try? Thanks for the great videos.

What I do is look at the herbs already growing in your yard or around your area. I live in the country and was teaching my grand kids about herbs this summer. I looked out the kitchen window which is under a big shade tree. Just looking out the kitchen window I pointed out to them more than a dozen herbs that just grow naturally in folks yard all around the country. Well might have been one that was not natural lol garlic. But one would be surprised at what grows in your yard many think of as weeds like dandelion, wild lettuce, clover, plantain, thistle, black berry, curly dock or yellow dock, to name a few. Then look up what these are used for and how to use them. Then you already know what herbs grow naturally and specific to your soil type and area and would be good to collect seeds from and grow in a garden if you decide to could use more of them. Start out simple and expand from there. There comes a time when doctors and western medicine is a needful thing but most things can be cured not just treated with natural herbs many of which grow right in your yard.

You are on a roll, lady. I order very little from Mountain Rose because of the high shipping rates, guess I need to live closer.....😉 what I got there is good quality though! Most of the herbs will spread over time, good thing, just have to keep up with harvesting or some will take over😎

I am growing mint in the Sonoran Desert, in Tucson, AZ.

Great information. Thankyou. Have you thought about doing a video on plants to grow to dehydrate for hens...

If lucky buying used books I found thst previous owner has highlight a few in her book some times makes finding a proven recipe which I only make when I know it’s been used lol my grand mothers book I gone though has been awesome finds most i remembered from my days staying with her

Praise the Lord Heidi!!! I thank God for leading me here. I've been having this strong pull to start using herbs and just didn't j ow where to start, and bam! Landing here. You mention a flower, pertussia, nurtusia or something like that, I just could not make it. Can you please help.

Remind us occasionally to like the video. I always do but forget to do that. 😊

Thank you so much for the great information. We have just started looking into herbs to help with the side effects of the meds both myself and husband take . I have a few things started for the rubs and salves on your channel. Thank you.

Oh my goodness! What a wonderful video. Thank you so much. `Sherrie in South Carolina