Nourishing pots anyone? A healthy immune system is as close as a few pots planted on your deck, windowsill or in your backyard. Your vitamins and nutrients can be available to you on a daily basis and fresh no doubt.
A sunny spot and a good sized pot will due the trick. Kale, tomatoes, sweet peppers, pole beans and lots more can be a pluck away if you’ve got the room and he sun.
Your Nourishing Pots Can Be An Architectural Work of Art.
A 37 x 17 x 17 inch planter can hold a wrought-iron trellis as well as some hefty greens. For starters, the trellis will work for holding up some pole beans. This leaves room for bushy and trailing plants.
Pole beans will remind you of jewels as they dangle from the vine. When you harvest the daily, it will keep your production growing.
Puckered blue green leaves of kale add texture and contrast. Allow your leaves to get to 8-10 inches long before picking.
Sweet peppers can add beautiful eye catching color to your pot.
Lemon thyme and Oregano make great trailing herbs that can fall over the edge of your pot.
In a separate pot, your can have baby eggplants growing. Curly -leaf parsley, along with thyme and tricolor sage will give you another architectural wonder for your pot area.
You can also use pot gardens for your spinach, collards, lettuce and yams. These are major immune building foods.
Nourishing Pots Can Provide Great Scents
Your pot garden not only provides you with healthy immune based herbs and spices, it also lends itself towards a beautiful aroma for all to enjoy.
You can take a series of pots and create a garden wheel by planting different plants in each pot.
A few herbs to consider for natural scents are sweet basil, common sage, chives, borage, dill, rosemary and of course lavender.
Fortunately, the aromatic compounds found in herbs make the appealing to us and too pollinators. This also makes them unattractive to pest.
Containers …
Your nourishing pot containers can be anything from old wash tubs to the black cast iron witches pots. The different sizes and shapes make for interesting landscape features on your porch or in your yard.
If you’re a city dweller, use smaller pots for your ledges. You can also corner off space in your brightest window and make it your garden area.
That’s it for this week. This was just to get your ideas popping for creating your own nourishing pots to keep your immune system healthy.
As always …
Dedicated to Your Beauty,
Juliette Samuel,
Esthetician/Author/Publisher,
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