LEMON BALM; GROWING THE HERB THAT MAKES US HAPPY | NO DIG HERB GARDEN | PERMACULTURE FOREST GARDEN
Published 2022-06-27
Then James starts planting a dedicated bed of the wonderfully calming herb, Lemon Balm, in an old vegetable bed in the market garden. The Lemon Balm joins many other herbs (yarrow, motherwort, mugwort, calendula) in an area of the market garden no longer used for our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) veg box business. These medicinal herbs are being grown to allow us to harvest large amounts to make into herbal remedies and medicine, including tinctures, infused oils and herbal teas. We are also experimenting with growing herbs on a larger scale to see what would be involved in growing medicinal herbs small scale commercially. They also make a fantastic addition to the forest gardens.
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Hi, we're James and Rosa! Welcome to Tap o' Noth Farm, a quarter acre Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) market garden and 8 acre permaculture designed forest garden farm/homestead in Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland. We practice home scale to small farm scale agroforestry and regenerative agriculture methods to produce organic fruit and vegetables, raise dairy goats for all our raw milk needs, Shetland sheep and geese to graze our silvopasture and coppice systems and laying hens, moved around in a Chickshaw, for an abundance of eggs.
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All Comments (20)
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Epic
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Enjoyed, Thank you. Little late watching for some reason. Blessings to family.
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I made in Pennsylvania, USA. I've been growing lemon balm for 30 years. It's invasive for me and I can't give it away! I am the only one I know who uses it. Glad to know it's not invasive everywhere...
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Miss you all. Hope everyone is doing ok.
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Very Nice 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing . Take care of yourselves, be safe, and healthy 🇨🇦
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I love your channel love the lemon balm as well one of my favorites here in the Deep South of coastal Georgia…my second year trying to establish a food dorrest quite challenging in our HEAT…looks like you have worked very hard and love what you do…a necessity as a gardener…wondering if the MIDGES that I’ve heard so much about in Scotland are as bad as our GNATS PRONOUNCED NATS…THE WORST PART OF GARDENING..STAY BLESSED
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Good morning, James and Rosa. Good job on organizing the poly tunnel. You will have a bountiful harvest of lemon balm😊
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So good to see you, Rosa and beautiful little Lillian all out working together. What a wonderful life Lillian is growing up in! Thank you for sharing about the seedlings of Lemon Balm and Mullein. I have been "blessed" with a bounty of LB but I am just learning about Mullein. But you have demonstrated that it can be grown from seed! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences with us! Blessings on your family and farm Kiddos!🥰🌻🐛
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Love the music and love the video ! Congratulations to you both ... interesting to see how lemon balm spreads
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I use lemon balm as a herbaceous layer in my landscape similar to you, mine has really taken hold now. I chop and drop it now but no longer use it for tea.
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I love lemon balm, just discovered your Channel and I'm loving everything, I can only imagine how much work you guys put in, just joined this community and I'm here to learn. Greetings from Uganda.
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Hi guys havent seen a video in 2 months hope things are ok miss you all
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Lovely abundance
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Great video as always and I LOVE all of your medicinal herbs. Our Lemon Balm likes to spread itself around in our garden in East Anglia, so I always have lots drying, but never really know what to do with it. I've actually got a bunch currently drying in my art studio, so I think I'll definitely have to dig put my herbal remedy books and find some uses for it. 🙂
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Lemon balm is a new one for me... must investigate.
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Can you show how you make the tincture, and besides it’s flavour what specific medicinal attributes it has for ye? When to harvest and how much, etc?
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Lemonbalm grows great here. We use it as a tea, and it works fantastically for destressing. Haven't thought about making tinctures yet. What type of dosage do you use?
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Im growing lemon balm too! (first year gardener) and it smells so good! also chamomile, though I'm starting to think I should have planted more XD -Bc canada
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If you seed into cells, you can avoid the pricking out step and save yourself a lot of potting soil. Just transplant the cells. Ditto everything, really. Life is too short for pricking out - an old tradition to chuck by the wayside. And why nut mulch before you plant? Cardboard first then mulch? Then transplant. And your narrow bed width dedicates a lot of space to paths. It seems like you are making things harder for yourself than necessary. It seems fine when you are young and have physical energy, but over time… jeeze. A bit of Charles Dowding, Ruth Stout, etc???? And that cold climate Canadian market garden guy Jean-Martin Fortier for practical skills that translate into savings of time, money, resources, effort.
