Guest guest Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 I have this idea....it's not that great...but it just makes sense to me. I wrote Buhner and he thought it was a good idea. This past spring I went to an herb fest and we had a lyme booth there. It was alot of fun with so many neat products and plants. That's where I bought my sweet Annie plants. It was pouring rain that day but people were there anyway. The people in the booth next to us were from the Extension service and their focus just happened to be invasive plants. We got to talking and of course we had Buhner's book there so we began talking about it. I mentioned to them that Buhner feels that invasive plants grow where there are invasive diseases and that many times they can be used for these diseases. I told the folks from the extension service that I wanted to plant Japanese Knotweed ( I found out it grows in the northeast where I am). They were horrified and said Oh No...it's invasive...you want your neighbors to kill you? We started laughing and I thought why can't we develope some educational program where instead of using poisons or trying to get rid of the knotweed in other ways, why can't we educate people on how to use it. People from other countries where it grows, eat the leaves, I believe the rhizomes are used for the medicine and one can even make flutes out of the bamboo like stalks. I have yet to recognize it growing wild around here but I was told of a friend's neighbor who has it growing by the side of her road. I must go see what it looks like. We really do need to become independant of the medical/military industrial complex and depending on where we live, start growing our own medicinals...at least the ones that can be grown here Margie T --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new .com. Check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 Dagmar, I grow milkweed also for the monarch. In my garden it is not invasive. But fennel, oh my goodness- very invasive. The larvae love it, but I hate it! ellen > > Hmh, > > thanks for the info. Then why are we buying it if it grows so easily? > > Dagmar > > > PS: I grow all kind of things, including milk weed for monarch butterflies. > Talking about invasive. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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