I moved into a new house and the builders had landscaped with big herb plants in my font garden. I have a border with mint, rosemary and sage. It looks so pretty and I can cook with it too.

@DragonflyenAmber

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I would get the mint into pots or it will take over and push all the other stuff out.

@Funky_Fairy

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@@DragonflyenAmber it’s ok, been 5 years and the sage is taking over more than the mint.

Airplane counting… hilarious 😂

Example of how nature will take care of itself

I’ve been waiting for this video! So curious to observe your resting garden!

@susannahjoy4220

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How did you cook it? Boiled or pan fried?

I think you need to rest and enjoy life sometimes. It’s ok to sit back and rest and let things go. I like these videos, and you sharing things with us. Thank you!! God Bless

Everything looks lovely. Enjoying your peace and tranquility is more important.

Let the chickens in to weed the garden as well as clean up all the mulberries! 🥰

Oregano has helped me get control of athletes foot.

Thank you for the yard tour

I think your tall purple flowers are delphineums, and they are beautiful!

Hi from uk Really enjoyed ur vidio What a lovely gardrn and home the garden seems to get lovliet every timr i see it . Thankd for taking us with u

Those leaves are a little big now, but when the poke first starts, harvest the young leaves and cook them like spinach. We wash them, boil then pour that off, then cook them like we do spinach with scrambled eggs.

MIlkweed is what Monarch caterpillars eat. That one looks like a common milkweed.

My dad said why plant something you can't eat. Enjoy your videos very much 😊. Love from Virginia

Had fun with you and coming along with your volunteer plants. Think I'll give them a go next season, so I can enjoy the same feeling of down to earth. T.U. 🤭 🙌 🌿🌾 🥕🧄

The eggs self seeded too! I wasn't expecting that

I have been pulling out plants that are not edible and replacing with edibles the past 3 years. Lots more work to do!!

Delphinium! Thank you Rachel for the relaxing beautiful tour. Your both are a blessing.

So many sunflowers 🌻 I did expect you to have loads of self seeded tomatoes in the same place as last years.

Love your gardens, thank you for sharing.

Great video

Great garden

You have the best porch ever, I love it.

Blueberry leaves have more antioxidants in them than the berries. We use them in our teas

@jamjar5716

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I never knew. Thankyou!

Everything is so beautiful and peaceful ❤

Looks fun to walk around gathering all your goodies❤

Oh good! I found your bug spray recipe from a couple of years ago, and i wondered if it was still your go-to recipe. I bought witch hazel!

What a beautiful harvest of herbs. Your garden looks good. Enjoy your sabbath 😊

That was fun

I always look forward to your next video. Everything is looking beautiful.

Lovely video, Rachel. ❤

Great little walk with you Rachel thanks. ❤

It was so cool seeing the white pup sitting so still in the background and it looked like he was looking straight at the camera getting in his few seconds of fame. It was really fun to see!

This was a very pleasant visit on a very pleasant day! Your whole property is a garden. Very beautiful!

Really beautiful video and thank you for great tip

awesome post!! Thanks so much. I'm thoroughly enjoying this "off" year from the garden with you and your sweetheart. xo

I love your new blueberry tradition!

The garden looks great! We eat the horseradish leaves like spinach greens. absolutely delish!

I started taking borage oil capsules and don- que capules in my late 40s. Went through the change chage of life like a breeze Im 71 and could not tell you what a hot flash is. Felt better during those years than i had felt in many years!

Thank you. This was such a fun video for me to watch. I am also experiencing a lot of peace. God bless you!

I thought about you over the weekend, I live in Manitowoc WI, and it's been so dry here no rain at all we have only mowed our lawn 2 times since April. I was telling my husband that you picked a good year to do the sabbath rest for your garden since there is no rain. My husband at first thought you and I were both crazy and said it doesn't say anything like that in the Bible (he went to a parochial school, and I didn't) so I pulled out my Bible (which I've been studying in the Old Testament) and showed him where it stated that. He said I should continue to you watch you since I'm learning so much So thank you

@krazedvintagemodel

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Which chapter/verse is it found please? I am a gardener who hasn't lived somewhere long enough to rest a garden, sadly. I love the concept!🌻

Beautiful spot you have there.

I have a very small yard. Your edible landscaping advice makes a lot of sense. Thank you. Gorgeous yard.

I add blue borage to salads and coleslaw (sliced thin)

I enjoyed seeing all your plants. You answered a question I had. First time having success growing echinacea and wasn’t sure if I should deadhead to promote more flowers and you answered that for me. Thanks for the tour.😘❤🙏🏻✨

Thank you for sharing. You always leave me with a new tip. Have a great day🌸💕🇺🇸

I kind of took a rest year too, with a long hike and I really miss the anticipation of harvesting some delicious veggies and herbs. The longer you have to wait, the more you cherish it and in that sense, think about the deliciousness of next year. Your are going to love it twice as much, just as I will

I made your strawberry tea the day you showed it. My family loved it.

I simply loved this video. So peaceful and beautiful out there. Would love to see when you harvest that potato and garlic 😂😅💐💙🙏🇺🇸

LMAO At all the airplanes! You must be close to DTW ;)

I loved that you grew all the flowers & herbs on the outside of your veggie garden, I'm working on it now my self, 1 thing I learned with my herb garden is you really want to leave lots of space cuz plants grow so fast & big.

I'm actually going to start getting my comfrey going on each quarter of my ground garden, as I've read so much good that it does for the other plants.

Love, love , love volunteers; I would dig some of those up and plant them somewhere else in my landscape or give them to friends and family!!! Love your channel!!!

I love the idea of edible landscaping. It is something I have started doing iny city property but plan to do it on a larger scale at the next property. Many people do not know that some typical ornamental plants can be edible such as hostas & day lilies.

We had such a bad heat wave… and the tomatoes got fusarium wilt… and I already harvested the corn so my garden is looking super pitiful. Excited to see yours.

Im so glad you have mugwort, well...for me, because now I know what is lining our trails! Thanks!! Im loving the tour 😊 i was wondering what was going on with it all! LOVELY! God always provides!

Thank you for the lemon verbena blueberry and mint idea. I have been making your strawberry lemon balm basil tea for the last 10 days and it is delicious. Especially after coming in from the garden after working a few hours in the heat. Had to comment before I got too far into your video just in case I would forget.

✈️ Todd plane counting🤣. I've been anticipating this update so much. I'm shocked you don't have volunteer tomatoes everywhere. My tomatoes are on the back of the property but today I was pulling seedlings from the front flower beds 😁 So good to know about the oregano treatment. I have to start utilizing my herbs more. Thank you for touring your Sabbath garden.

Hi Rachel it's Rochelle. Thanks for showing us around. Your herbs and flowers look so nice. Our summer garden is over and the next couple of months we will let it rest. It was 108 yesterday and the same today and two weeks out it's going to be hot. 🥵 Good to see you, blessings. Rochelle

Love the blueberry pancakes

Missed seeing you....😊

Me too I love teas in the summer. Most recently it's been hibiscus lemonade, next double mint.

Live in Alaska I’m canning green beans I enjoy your youtube

ill take all the free food we got 4 free yellow tomato plants

I went to harvest my herbs today and I have brown spot fungus on it all.😢 Really bummed me out. Had so many plans for it all. Glad all of yours is good. God bless

We live about a mile from Joint Base Lewis McChord. I love the sound of airplanes overhead. JBLM is having their first air show in 7 years. The fighters planes have been flying overhead today. Can’t wait to watch the air show from my front yard this weekend. 🇺🇸✈️

Lovely exciting garden. Wonderful weeds and flowers Isn’t it great to grow so much food when you do nothing??!!!

Thyme is probably my favorite 🌿 Bee balm is aweaome too. Mine is a big bush and the hummingbirds love it. I can sit on my back porch and just watch the hummingbirds play..its lovely too❤ We've live here 6 year planted kale once the first year and never had to plant it again😂

The spiked purple flower is larkspur. Love your videos!

Hi Rechel. Day lili is Hemrokalis. Milkweed-Asclepias. Lemon Balm- Melissa officinalis. Black eye susie- Rudbeckia

Your making me realize I have to cut back all my plants in my herb garden, really I need to expand that garden & remove the chives & definitely the choc mint it's taking over, I've been talking about doing this for 2 yrs now, if not this yr maybe next

Most Bee Balm likes moisture as well. It is a mint family member. Your thyme is beautiful and 1 of my favorites for roast chicken. Using it as a tea with soap making 🤔 sounds like an interesting option! The gorgeous purple spikes are larkspur, and annual relative of delphinium.

My thought would be to just do what brings you joy in the garden. Enjoy the peace and tranquility! God bless!

Rachel, I have never heard of oregano being good for poison ivy! Thank you SOSO much for sharing this! My son is ALSO highly allergic to poison ivy! The only thing I have ever found that works instantly is 20 minute Epsom Salt bath soaks, but oregano would be a great substitute when I cannot find epsom salt which I have ran into several times. Thank you for sharing your tips I appreciate you! God bless and have a great evening!❤

Hi Rachel 😊

I never knew that about pruning lemon verbena. I'll have to try that next time I grow it. I think borage has a bunch of usages. The flowers are good to throw in flowers. The almost have a cucumber taste to them. I first heard about borage and its uses from Rain Country here on YT i think she puts it in her skin/face cream/salve. I need to make that tea you made before your boat trip and the one you made in this video they look/sound so good!

Rachel, I saw a video where they peeled and sliced the horseradish, dehydrated it, then ground into a powder. I’m sure you can do the same thing with the freeze dryer. To reconstitute, they just added water and used it like the horseradish you buy in the refrigerator section of the store.

We moved into our house that’s on the outskirts of a small town, so still in town in MN. But This year we put in 2 apple trees, 2 pear trees, 2 blueberry bushes, and will be adding more. We have grapes growing under our deck on a trellis! We are totally in mindset of whatever grows in our yard it must be edible!

I'm working on Borage tinctures now 😊

You need some anise hyssop. It's lovely, the pollinators love it, and it makes a wonderful tea with mint. By the way, your hair looks beautiful. I'm glad you're still letting it go natural.

I love Eric and Ariel. They’re doing a lot of projects on their new property. It’s so exciting watching everything change. Thank you for sharing! For tinctures I watch @StiversHomestead and The Honeystead? Zack and Jen with Stivers just did a video recently about her tinctures and what all they’re good for. When these 100°+ temps come back down I’m definitely planting more medicinal herbs. What I don’t soak I’ll freeze dry for tea. I love how my lemon balm turns out being FD. Blessings to you both. Your flowers are gorgeous!

Shalom

Thank you so much for the info about oregano tincture! I am horribly allergic to poison oak (same compound, urishiol), so I will make sure to have loads of that tincture (I have a gigantic oregano plant). When it comes to borage, it self seeds like crazy, so if you just pull up an old plant and let it compost someplace, it will grow theere again next year. There is a dish from Spain that uses borage stems (ideally harvested before it flowers) with potatoes. I think I saw a recipe in the 1080 Recipes book, but it's probably available online also. I have an aunt who always adds borage sprigs to her lemonade.

I’m surprised you don’t have a ton of birds hitting those mulberries in the yard/tree!!

We add horseradish leaves to a jar when pickling cucumbers. It helps with crunchiness

Borage is great for a chop and drop fertilizer in the garden, like comfrey. You can also make a tea with the leaves and let it ferment for fertilizing the garden. Beware, though, green teas stink but are so good for the plants! I also dry the leaves and flowers for medicinal uses. I'm discovering I really enjoy growing herbs and medicinal plants far more than I do vegetables. Growing veggies here in Southern Arizona is a frustrating adventure because EVERYTHING eats what I plant. It was fun to see what you're growing, I like the walks around the garden.😊

I just went out and harvested lemon balm. I love lemon balm tea...but have a tincture going and want to use it in other applications. This is my first good harvest of lemon balm, it's in a half whiskey barrel but has grown up all around on the ground outside the barrel...it looks great.

Oregano has fantastic antiseptic properties. I use oregano oil when I have a cold or sore throat.

Wouldn't it be nice to put up a temporary chicken fence underneath the mulberry tree so your chickens could eat all the fallen fruits?

While we aren't resting our raised garden beds, we've been amazed at the number of volunteers, this being our 8th year gardening. We went with the principle of three this season: herb, flower and veggie. It ended up being very beautiful with all the flowers and herbs inter-planted with the veggies. I'll definitely do it again, with a few changes to maximize space utilization.

Yes borage is medicinal with some warnings. But mainly it’s used for hormone regulation. ❤

I too am going through the female change. I've suffered for years with hot flashes and night sweats. Recently I add 1 cinnamon and 1 turmeric capsule to my daily vitamin regiment and it has been a game changer for me.

Plantain is also a wonderful remedy to dry up poison ivy rashes. Just roll the leaf around until it releases some juices and apply to the rash. My husband has reactions like your son. 😢

Thank you for this video ,I was pegging the string down with wire clips. this is going to save me Time and money not spent on wire clips. Alf🙂🙂🙂

Oh wow!! Time is flying by on your year of land rest!! Love the new blueberry pancake tradition! ☺ Oh the rosewater idea! Sounds delightful!! Watching this as it is FINALLY raining here after about two weeks drought! Nice lemon balm haul! Great idea about the edible landscaping!! Any issues with ant hills under plants?? We keep getting tons of them that we pour vinegar on. Such a problem this year! Maybe the drought? Yesssss Oregano tincture is amazing for so many things!! Awesome story! What a pretty haul!🌻☺

@polywog9591

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Kick the anthill then generously sprinkle Diatomaceous Earth all over it.

I think your garden looks BEAUTIFUL for “letting it go.” It could be worse and be full of burdock, crab grass, pigweed, water weed and creeping Charlie, 😳🤪 like mine would be if I took a year off. You have some good stuff to use there and BEAUTIFUL flowers. I am trying to plant a medicinal garden, I have “dead nettle”, Chamomile, echinacea, lemon balm, and most the usual herbs. I also have a lot of things I wild harvest for tinctures etc. I’m running out of room, unless I start taking over the pasture and the hay ground🤣 Glad you are getting some rest, it is well deserved🥰

I recently discovered that the leaves of borage are edible and there is an Italian ravioli of ricotta and borage leaves, there is a traditional summer pesto that uses borage and that it makes a lovely addition to summery pea soups.

Just a side note, I've joined and i have a post hole digger So you can use mine. I live in Melbourne Australia, Hope to see you soon. Alf😜😜😜

I’d let the chickens loose in there and let them clean it up and fertilize! Just protect your perennials.

If you have any jewel weed it is wonderful for poison ivy. I make salves out of it. But also, if I break out any it works great