Helpful Gardening Hints
(from the book-Gardening with the Goddess by Patricia Talesco)


 


1. Put corn doll scarecrows on small stakes around the garden, adored with some bells to keep the birds away. Corn represents fertility and prosperity and is a natural representation of the corn goddess.

2. Revitalize your fields by adding a blend of milk, honey and olive oil to the soil and bless it, according to roman customs this will enrich the soil and bring life back into the land.

3. Grow a Hawthorn Hedge around your garden to protect the energy you place there in.

4. Grow and carry Marjoram to keep ill-inteded magick away from you and your home.

5. Harvest your above ground crops from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and root crops in the late afternoon to preserve them.

6. Harvest herbs you plan to use for magick on Summer Solstice so they are more potent, according to ancient custom.

7. Save ashes from your Yule log and mix them with the soil in your garden. These not only protect the home and attract good luck, but they are also said to improve plant growth.

8. Grow Chamomile in your garden and sprinkle a Chamomile Tea onto the earth. This is said to bring a possitive magickal atmosphere suited to any theme.