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25.01.2022 Gardening by the New Moon Happy New Moon in Leo! 19th August 2020. The new moon or the dark moon in general is a time of new beginnings, initiative and planting seeds of manifestation for the next cycle ahead. The dark moon is associated with witchcraft and a time great power. This can be related to gardening as well. Gardening by the New Moon is a phase that lasts seven days. The gravitational pull of this moon draws the moisture up through the soil and into the roots a...nd plants which means it’s a great time for sowing seeds that grow above the ground. In the Southern Hemisphere, we are about to enter the season of Spring so this is a great time to be planning out your next seasonal garden and planting the necessary seeds or bringing in seedlings. This New Moon Leo brings in the energy of joy, creativity and loyalty. It is the perfect moon to set intention, goals and creatively design your garden space with the confidence in knowing any plans you set in motion for the your garden will manifest with ease. August 19th: Plan new season garden, plant above surface seeds. Avoid chemical fertilisers today (and in general if possible) as the moisture is being pushed to the surface, your chemical fertiliser will stay on the surface and pose a risk of drying out and killing your plants. August 20-21: Great time for all round general garden jobs aligned to sowing, harvesting and transplanting of plants. August 22 -23: Great time for planting flowers and herbs for spring. Avoid watering as it’s a time that pests are attracted to your plants. (Do not be worried about rainfall. That is natural watering and is fine) August 24-25: Leaving the new moon phase, these last couple of days are great for mowing the lawn, sowing vegetable and leafy green seeds and watering plants - in particular house plants! The best way I find to keep up with the right things to do when, is by adding a note to my calendar in my phone! Let me know how this resonates with you and if you are going to start setting reminders! **Please note this information is for Southern Hemisphere Gardening** : Sourced from The Hoodwitch on Pinterest

25.01.2022 Medicinal Flower: Calendula (Calendula Officinalis) If ever there was a plant to have in your garden bed, calendula would have be it. The benefits this stunning orange flower provides far outweighs the easy care regime it needs! Grow calendula as a garden flower: It is a hardy perennial. It blooms all year long, even in winter and it is a great flower to entice bees and pollinators to the yard. For this reason, it works as a great companion plant in your veggie patches. C...alendula has a long sturdy stem and can be picked for the vase. This plant needs very little water once established and can be trained by pinching out growth, cutting dead and woody stems and dead heading when the flower has died. Grow calendula as an edible flower: It has a spicy to bitter taste and is wonderful as a decorative flower on cakes or as an colourful flavour bomb in a salad! It is often called poor mans saffron. Grow calendula as a medicinal herb: This wonderful flower offers so much to us in the way of healing. Applied to the skin, it reduces inflammation and is great in a salve and facial products. It has a wonderful soothing effect to wounds and helps quicken healing. I like to use the dried petals in my baths and @__selena__rose__ bath salt products. It is also used to help soften menstrual cramping and issues. Grow calendula in your witches garden: Used to raise spiritual energy and increase psychic energy. Drink calendula tea to raise the vibration of your aura and banish unwanted energy. Use the petals in spells for money, protection, prosperity, legal matters,happiness and love. Use for sacral chakra healing work. Related planet is the sun and the related element is fire. This wonderful plant pictured Is in my front garden (although I have about seven others out the back) I neglected it all winter and it has thrived. I will be picking these flowers, drying them, placing them in oil and leaving them out in the sun for six weeks to infuse. Once strained, I will keep the oil and use it as a facial moisturiser, put it in my baths, mix it into elixirs and make magical products with it. What do you like about the calendula plant?

24.01.2022 Is anyone else an impatient gardener and likes to break the rules? Asking for a friend.... In this cool climate zone I live in, the rule of thumb is not to plant out your Dahlias until the frost is over and the spring rains have passed. Usually this means last week of October/first week of November - or on Melbourne Cup day to be exact. We have a weather pattern called La Niña joining us this spring/summer season which means a lot of wet weather and if it drops down cold eno...ugh over night, we are in high danger of late late frosts This news is extremely heartbreaking for a dahlia obsessed gardener like myself who is literally crossing out the days, counting down until I can plant out my tubers. How to rectify this? Husband look away now! Bring in already flowering Dahlia plants!!! These plants have joined my garden today and will stay in their pots, providing beautiful flowers and much joy until I can plant them out on Melbourne Cup. They will then root into the ground and produce their own tubers ready to be dug up before next winter! Nothing brings me more joy than a fruitful and prolonged dahlia season and this also means I get to enjoy even more dahlia varieties. Also some of my tubers don’t work out, I know I have some dahlias regardless. That’s a win all round I think Who else is dahlia obsessed and can’t wait for summer to see them bloom? Which of these varieties is your favourite?

23.01.2022 Spring has sprung! Spring has a very potent energy around it, bringing forth new growth, light, warmth and rebirth. On this glorious first day of spring, I spent a wonderful day in the company of my boys. We went to nurseries, I got plants delivered and most importantly I was surrounded by my animal soul mates. I was honoured to spend time in the presence of the majestic yellow tailed black cockatoo. Anyone who has followed me for a while will know these are my totem animal, highly spiritual and have a very strong and important meaning to me when they show up. It was such a beautiful blessing that I was visited them today. I also had some other friends around me while I was gardening this afternoon. All in all, it has been a very beautiful and magnificent start to spring 2020 How did you spend your first day of Spring?

18.01.2022 Gardening by the Moon - Full Moon in Pisces When La Luna is full, it is a great time to go inward, release and relax. The moon is ruled by water in general so when it’s in Pisces (a water sign) it makes it a potent time for you to be in flow with yourself, your subconscious and your intuition. This is the very same for the garden. Have you ever just sat and listened to your plants? Asked what they need? Ever acquainted yourself with the spirit of each plant in your gard...en? Plants are sentient beings meaning they are able to perceive and feel things. Plants are deeply in tune with the cycles of the moon and know exactly what they need in order to thrive. La Luna guides them, offering herself as support and together they work in harmony with Mother Gaia. If ever you were to sit in the energy of your plants to develop a relationship with them, doing so under the energy of the full moon is the time. They will converse with you you and let you know what they need and in turn, how you can work with them. Tune into your intuition and bond with your garden and you too can work in harmony with them and flow with cycles of nature and the moon! For gardening: The gravitational pull of the full moon is very high meaning it pulls the moisture up from the ground. This is why watering your plants was not recommended the past few days leading into the full moon as the energy of the full moon amps up before the event and is still around as it winds down afterwards. This means it is a favourable time to plant your root vegetables as they will benefit most from the rising moisture. August 2/3: Great time for planting perennials and bulbs. A good time to be mowing the grass as well. August 4/5/6: Great time to be sowing seeds. Now is the time to do your weeding. Also a great time for harvesting from fruit trees and preserving winter fruiting crops to get you through spring and summer! August 7/8: Moving into the energy of the next quarter, now is a favourable time to be planting root vegetables as the moon light diminishes. It is also a great time to be harvesting root vegetables from your winter crops! : sourced from a Jeffrey Kluger article in time magazine. A Getty Image. See more

17.01.2022 Friday win! My indoor winter tomato experiment going gangbusters! Growing tomatoes in a cool climate is difficult enough in the warmer weather. We get windy and frosty springs and scolding hot summers which is not an ideal climate for perfect tomatoes. I love my tomatoes so much and after a not so successful season of growing this past summer with the bushfire smoke smashing the garden, I decided to try this bonsai tomato in a pot inside in winter. This was grown from seed in late April and gets whatever winter sun it is offered. Today there are two flowers and more to open up! I’m feeling optimist for some delicious treats in four to six weeks!!! What winter wins have you had with indoor growing?

15.01.2022 Gardening by the Moon - 1st Quarter Waxing Phase The time of resting, planning and intention setting is over. This is the action week and time to work hard! This seven day quarter is when the gravitation pull of the moon has lessened since the new moon phase but is shining brighter in the night sky, which equals a great time for healthy leaf growth and development. It’s a great time for planting above ground annuals that form their seeds inside their fruit.... For the upcoming spring time in the Southern Hemisphere, this would include sowing seeds such as sweet peas, tomatoes, capsicum, chilis, eggplants etc, either in the ground or under cover depending on what climate you live in. Planting just before the upcoming full moon on September 2nd is ideal to take advantage of peak moisture benefits. August 26/27: Peak seed sowing and planting time of this lunar cycle, in particular fruit trees and shrubs. Great time to harvest fruits that require it. August 28/29: Peak seed sowing and planting time of this lunar cycle. Great time for harvesting and preserving root vegetables from the winter crops. August 30/31 and Sept 1: Most advantageous time of this lunar cycle for sowing seeds and planting seedlings, in particular flowers and flowering herbs. Avoid watering at this time, in particular indoor plants as the lunar gravitational pull coming up to the full moon affects the moisture retention in the soil. These three days are the most favourable and effective for weed pulling out of the whole cycle. What seeds are you planning on sowing for your spring/summer garden? : NASA International Space Station sourced from Pinterest See more

15.01.2022 Healing Plant Medicine Did you know mushrooms are the most Vitamin D rich food source on the planet? Following on from my stories posted earlier this week about the incredibly important healing effects of the sun and Vitamin D, I have had comments that people aren’t able to just sit around in the sun in order to receive the potent healing. I get it! A lot of us have to work during the day and getting out into the sun is just not a possibility.... Luckily, there is a simple solution that can help you get this beautiful healing medicine without having to stop your day in order to get out into the sun! The answer is MUSHROOMS. Put your mushrooms out in direct sunlight and they absorb the same UV rays from the sun that sparks the same Vitamin D synthesis that our own skin does. By eating 100gms of sun warmed mushrooms a day, you are naturally consuming up to 70-80% of the RDI of Vitamin D per day required for your body to function and can help your body return to the baseline limits required to be considered non deficient.** The benefits of Vitamin D in the body are countless. Some of these include calcium absorption for good bone density, working to help a healthy immune system, brain development, it can reduce infectious diseases, can stave off some cancers and may even help with Alzheimer’s and Dementia.** The benefits of consuming mushrooms are also countless for our health helping across the board for issues from mental health imbalance to cancers and auto immune disorders.** This is a match made in heaven. And it’s a wonderful vegan alternative to taking supplements. So for those who do not have time to get out into the sun, pop your mushrooms out instead and let them do all the work for you! ** : sourced from autostockphoto.com.au **please not I am not a medically trained professional and it is strongly recommended you do your own research on nutrition and health before you do anything to alter your health in anyway. This is just a suggestion to get you to explore plant medicine further.

14.01.2022 A beautiful moment on our walk today. I’m very excited for the Springtime. Even though we are still in the minus temps, it’s pending arrival teases me with snippets of glorious sunshine and lots of bees and pollinators in the garden.

14.01.2022 LOVE A GOOD UPCYCLE Anything can be turned into a planter box with imagination. Today I turned my sons old baby bath into a spring planter box. All I did was drill drainage holes in the bottom and fill with great soil, compost, cow manure and sprinkled it with rock dust. This will sit pretty for the next month or so and then I’ll sow seed for spring. It beats throwing it away as waste and is a great way of saving money as well. What things have you upcycled in your garden?

13.01.2022 Last night leading up to the energy of this full moon, I had an emotional breakdown. I felt very confused and disheartened and there was nothing left to do but have a long shower, put myself to bed and start fresh the next day. This morning while I was in the garden, my beautiful purple sage plant called me over and offered herself as medicinal ally to me. She whispered to me to pick two bundles for a smudge stick in order to cleanse and purify my space should such a breakdow...n ever occur again. She showed me a particular lavender bush and a flowering rosemary bush from the same garden that I was to add to my bundle as well. I had been chatting to my beautiful friend @state.of.megan earlier about all things LOVEly and uplifting and my sage said she wanted to go to Megan as well. It was settled, Megan was to pop in for a quick catch up and a sage picking. Three and a half hours later after chatting all things magical and witchy, drinking tea and reading the leaves, Megan and I finally got around to picking this plant ally medicine. The vibration of this smudging bundle is very high and it’s smell and aura is truly divine. It occurred to me that not only was the spirit of the sage offering herself for healing, but she also sent me my beautiful friend to help me heal as well, bringing clarity and clearing up the confusion I felt from my breakdown twelve hours earlier, which helped me raise my own energetic vibration. Goodness me I am grateful!!! I am so grateful for the spirit of my purple sage and it’s magical ally offerings. I am grateful for my beautiful friend Megan and our impromptu time spent together. I am grateful for how my day unfolded. I am grateful for the timing of it all and the synchronicity of the universe and I am grateful that there is always a way out and up of you just stop and listen. Smudge purple sage for the energetic lifting of the vibration of love. It brings calmness and calls in all kinds of divine loving energy. Smudge rosemary for protection, mental clarity, healing and cleansing. Smudge lavender for divination, psychic awareness, for the purification of your space and to bring in the energy of happiness and grace.

12.01.2022 A flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes - Mark Nepo Spending winter mornings in the warm sun watching this little guy do it’s thing with my peach blossoms. It’s the most beautiful display of a relationship in perfect harmony.... Last year I planted my spring garden around the idea that I wanted to feed the bees. My garden was thriving and beautiful and full of activity. Then the fires hit over the summer and I’ve noticed a massive decline in the number of bees that visit my backyard. So seeing this guy is super special I will be planting more again for these little heroes this season...more salvias, lavender, borage and natives such billy buttons and everlasting daisies. What are you planting this spring to bring all the pollinators to the yard?

12.01.2022 Sacral Chakra Bath Ritual Last night I participated in a glorious online workshop dedicated to the sacral chakra run by the divine @nataleefinnpsychicmedium. This course was truly magical. It included potent art, dance, music, indulgence, meditation, cleansing, clearing, infusing and creativity. During the workshop, we each made a sacral chakra elixir and our own personal sacral sigil. I infused my elixir with the energy of the sunstone crystal, a beautiful orange agate (...gifted to me by Nat from a course years ago) and a piece of orange calcite crystal. I anointed my filtered water elixir with sweet orange and Australian sandalwood essential oils, infused it with heartfelt intention, reiki healing energy, sacred moon beams from La Luna and the glorious sun energy of today. I sat it on top of my special and uniquely designed sigil and also drew the sigil on the side of my bottle. This beautiful elixir was truly buzzing with potent energy when I picked it just before. Tonight I am indulging in a sacred bath ritual dedicated to my sacral chakra. My bath water is infused with calendula petals, @__selena__rose__ special bath salt blend, sweet orange and jasmine essential oils and my magical elixir with the crystals from the elixir also steeping in the bath water. I have infused my sacred sigil into the bath water, have sacral chakra meditation music playing and have lit my own hand poured special candles. Tonight I honour my pleasure centre, my sacred womb temple and step back into my power by bathing in my magical creation. I feel blessed. I am blessing myself. I am my own blessing energy. What does your bath ritual look like?

09.01.2022 Gardening and the Moon. There is an ancient memory within us all of a time where we used to set our routines by the phases of the moon and the rising and setting of the sun. There was a time where we taught ourselves what moon to expect to see in the night sky by what was growing, flowering, birthing and fruiting on the earth’s surface and named the moon cycles accordingly and still have those names today. The names of the full moons - Harvest moon, strawberry moon etc all ...come from that ancient time. There is more to gardening than just going by personal preference, seasonal variety and which climate zone you live in. The gravitational pull of the moon needs to be taken into consideration as it affects the soil and growth of all things on the earth. This gravitational influence of the moon can be seen through the different tides of the ocean, our human emotions, a woman’s mensuration cycle to name just a few. When we tune with the different phases of this energy, we are able to harness it to work with us in a beautiful unison and flowing energy that make magic. So naturally it just makes sense that the moon cycles and it’s power can be harnessed for magical gardening as well. Gardening by the moon cycles teaches patience, helps us to tune into nature and Mother Gaia’s soul and aligns us to those ancient cycles that our ancestors worked so hard to harness. I invite you to join me on my gardening journey with the moon cycles. Let’s get back to our ancient roots and remember our connection to Mother Earth and nature’s force together. : unknown sourced from Pinterest See more

08.01.2022 The humble radish! Oh what a bad rep it gets. People find the bitter taste to be unnecessary in their salads. Onion haters dismiss it, green lovers forget it. I love radish. These are the first harvested of only a small batch in a pot in the garden. They aren’t nearly as big as they should be. It’s because I planted them too close together. But yet they still flourished. Radish is a great option to plant if you don’t have a lot of space, or a lot of time. These grow in 21 day...s from seed to harvest and are a great crop to sow with your other plants while they are growing. They can handle rough conditions and will almost always thrive and will produce very quickly for the impatient gardener. These little beauties will be pickled for tonight’s taco feast. Pickling or fermenting radish mellows out its bitter flavour and is great for gut health. How do you feel about the humble radish? See more

08.01.2022 Gardening by the moon - 3rd Quarter Waning Phase As we have come out of the heightened and intense energy of the full moon phase, the gravitational pull is still a bit high and is still creating a bit of moisture in the soil. The brightness of the moon beams is decreasing, forcing the energy to start drawing down into the soil. Instead of focusing on growth and development, this winding down phase is to be taken as a beautiful resting period, getting ready for the plants t...o move inwards or underground with the energy of the next dark moon cycle. As the gravity and energy starts to slowly wind down, the fruit on the trees start to drop meaning it’s peak time to harvest. Mowing the lawn is also ideal to encourage new growth for the upcoming new lunar cycle. 10th/11th August: It is recommended to hold off from watering your beds as it is a lunar time that can most attract pests. Allow this time to be a period of rest. If you must do something, harvesting and transplanting is recommended. 12th/13th August: Recommended time to fertalise the garden beds for promoting spring growth, watering is recommended after giving your plants a rest from the pests! This is also a great time to mow the lawn. 14th/15th: Avoid chemical fertalising during this time (and in general if possible) as the energy of the new moon phase is looming and the gravitational pull of La Luna is shifting. These two days are great for harvesting and preserving fruits if you must do something! 16th: With La Luna entering her dark phase/new moon cycle tomorrow, this is a day to do general jobs, finishing up tasks you set yourself for the cycle. It is a very favourable time to weed as once removed, it will be gone for good. It’s a good time for sowing root veggie seeds as the moisture from the gravitational pull of La Luna and the upcoming energy of her dark phase is forcing the energy inwards and will cause the seeds to swell and erupt into a root system and the plant matter to emerge. This completes the first cycle of our gardening by the moon journey. I would love to hear how you are getting on in your garden. Let me know : Sourced from Kevin Friery on Flickr.com See more