Are you wondering what essential oils have to do with your garden? Are you ready to start your seeds indoor? Have you had the pleasure of getting a bouquet of cut flowers recently? Lets talk some flowers and essential oils. Two of my favorite things.
I do love gardening, and Essential oils help many ways when gardening. One way, is all those spring exercising aches and pains. Digging, turning over soil and prepping a garden is hard work. After a more sedentary time over the winter I enjoy getting out and looking to plan out any changes to my garden.
Checking out to see what is starting to bud means getting down on a knee, bending over, picking up pots, and draining out snow melt. I even pricked my finger on a rose thorn already. lol
Not only has Tea Tree come to my rescue for that, Arborvitae and Cypress have been keeping my hands warm as I look around to see the possibilities.
The maple tree out back is already blooming, the weigelia is budding, the roses have started to green-up at the bottom of the stocks and I think there are sprouts starting on the stems. The tulips and crocuses are beginning to poke out of the ground. Spring is in the air.
Looking at the garden, I am thinking about sliding my hand along a flower stem of the lavender that I moved to the sunnier side of the garden last year, and rubbing a rose petal to release the essential oil, the beautiful smell. Plants use essential oils in many ways. One way is to attract pollinators and scoot away pests. We can add essential oils to aid our veggies or flowers in the same way they use oils themselves.
So another two ways essential oils help in the garden is as bug repellant and pollinator attractor. Begin by soaking cloth strips in water and essential oil, and laying them around your seedlings when you plant them outdoors, it will help keep them from being eaten by bugs. Once starting to flower your veggies and flowers can benefit your attracting pollinators with essential oils. You can once again use cloth strips with a different group of essential oils on them, hanging in the branches or on cages to bring in those bees and butterflies.
Lots of flowers grow better with veggies and some veggies grow better when paired with flowers. The essential oils from the plants and the ones you add support and help to create better harvests.
Essential oils that would help to protect new dahlias like in the pic above would be Peppermint, Spearmint, Cedarwood and Thyme.
Oils that you would use to attract pollinators would be Lavender, Helichrysum, Marjoram, Basil and Sage.
If you would like to learn more about how to use essential oils in your garden please go to the EVENTS tab and check out when the next gardening with essential oils class is, or comment below with any questions or helpful hints you have learned.
Remember I am here to help you on Your Road to ReNew You and your Garden. Lets bring in lots of veggies this year and be able to fill our homes with fresh cut flowers. Put a drop of Tea Tree into your cut flower water and they will last longer. One drop to a cup of water.
One last way to use essential oils in your garden (there are more) use Lavender, Lemongrass and or Rosemary in a diffuser outdoor to keep the mosquitoes away while you are enjoying all the hard work you have done in your garden.