Field horsetail, toad pipe, common horsetail

Field horsetail. Also known as – Common Horsetail, Bottle-brush, Cornfield Horsetail, Foxtail-rush, Horsepipes, Horsetail-fern, Mare’s-tail, Meadow-pine, Paddy’s-pipe, Pinegrass, Pipeweed, Scouring-Rush, Snakegrass, Toad-pipes.

Field horsetail is most often a weed of landscape beds and low-lying areas. Aside from silicates, horsetail is likewise abundant in potassium, aluminum, and manganese, as well as a variety of flavonoids. It can also be sprayed on your plants in the garden to feed them.

Finding horsetail

Finding horsetail

Horsetail tea

Making Horsetail tea to spray on the plants in my garden

Make your own Marigold Oil in 3 steps

This is a very easy way to make your own skin treatment oil. Marigold is known for it’s healing powers and can be used for ointments, salves and creams.

Marigold

Step one: grow your own Marigolds in a piece of garden. The colours are amazing!

Marigold petals

Take of the Marigold petals and put them in a clean jar. Great to do with kids. Make sure your hands are clean!

Marigold oil

Fill the jar with vegetable organic oil and cover it with clean (cooked) cotton cloth. Let it sit in a sunny place for 3 weeks. Gently move the jar every day to keep it mixing. Finally siff the oil and ready!

More details can be found on http://en.heilkraeuter.net/recipes/marigold-oil.htm, however, using coton cloth to cover the jar releases moisture better.