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Grow These Medicinal Herbs In Your Backyard Garden: Must Have Herbs for Tea Gardens



Discover the power of medicinal herbs you can grow right in your backyard! In this video, we explore easy-to-grow herbs with incredible health benefits, perfect for beginners and seasoned gardeners alike. From calming lemin balm to immune-boosting elderflower, learn how to cultivate, harvest, and use these natural remedies at home. 🌱

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hello welcome back to Gracewalk Farm i’m Amber and so many of you commented on my last garden tour and you said “Yes we want to know the best medicinal herbs to grow in a backyard garden and you want to know how to use them.” So today I’m going to take you on a quick little tour of all of the herbs that I’m currently growing in my backyard garden and maybe give you some suggestions and ideas for tea plants that you can incorporate in your own garden whether you’re growing a vegetable garden or an herb garden or a tea garden or a mix of the three like I do so let’s dive in and let me show you some of my favorite herbal friends we’re going to kick off our medicinal garden tour with one of my favorites right here beside me it’s FeverFW look at these beautiful little blooms they look like tiny daisies sort of similar to chamomile but the blooms are slightly bigger feverfw is my favorite herb for headaches now like the name suggests feverfw it can help with fever reductions as well but feverfw is almost like a little Tylenol alternative you can use it for lots of things but it is best known as a migraine remedy and you can make a tincture by soaking feverfue blossoms and leaves in um like an alcohol base i like to use vodka for this and you make a tincture out of it and then you can take a few drops of that tincture each morning and it will prevent migraines i’ve also found that feverfue works just for normal headaches even a tension headache or a sinus headache you can even come out and eat one of the leaves or the petals just eat it raw and it will work so feverfw if you struggle with headaches this is one you definitely want to include in your garden tucked in here beneath my peas I have some clary sage this is what the leaves look like they’re bigger than regular garden sage leaves they’re slightly fuzzy and they’re very soft clary sage has a very distinct smell but once you’ve smelled it you’ll always recognize it but clary sage is wonderful for stress if you deal with chronic stress a little tea made from clary sage is going to make your life so much better so clary sage can help with lots of other things but my primary reason for growing it is stress reduction i love to use this in my calming tea blends also growing here with the peas we have some wormwood i’ll show you the leaves wormwood is best known as a detox agent you’ll often find this as an ingredient in parasite cleanses so I decided to go ahead and introduce it into my garden as a perennial to grow year after year so that we always have this little medicinal friend on hand in case we need a parasite cleanse so wormwood is another one to add to your garden this is my dear friend lemon balm and if I could only grow one herb it would be lemon balm lemon balm is a nerving herb and it smells very lemony it has this like bright citrus smell and even just sitting here and smelling it I can feel it so it works very quickly to calm the nervous system if you tend to be hypervigilant sort of stuck in fight or flight um lemon balm can help you break that cycle and come out of fight or flight it’s also really great for like cortisol imbalances um hormone balance thyroid problems you’ll read sometimes that people with thyroid issues shouldn’t use lemon balm i’ve kind of found the opposite to be true for my family um two out of the five people in my home have Hashimoto’s and those two love lemon balm so do your own research talk to your doctor talk to an herbalist and decide if it’s right for you but I love lemon balm you can use this as a tea you can take it as a tincture sometimes I even put lemon balm leaves in my bath water for a really nice relaxing bath there are endless ways to use this one you can even eat it fresh in salads and probably my favorite way to use lemon balm is I put it in my chicken broth when I make like a bone broth i add lemon balm leaves and it adds some medicinal benefit to my broth tucked back in here underneath all of the lemon balm we also have oregano growing and oregano is one of those herbs that is a musth have it’s great for pest control but it’s also a wonderful medicinal you can make your own oil of oregano by soaking your oregano leaves in olive oil for about eight weeks and that oil of oregano is going to be a powerful antimicrobial antifungal we use it for all kinds of things so oregano is a plant I cannot suggest enough not just for the medicinal benefits but for culinary uses you can’t make a good lasagna without oregano so you definitely want to add this one to your garden too so this is bomb and bomb is also sometimes called bergamont this is another plant that I love and would always grow in my garden so when it matures it grows these beautiful little purple flowers that attract the bees i’ll insert some footage here so you can see what it looks like so not only does it bring in tons of pollinators to the garden but be bomb has skin regenerative properties meaning you can make an infused oil or a sav out of this and it will help heal any sort of abrasions cuts scrapes very quickly it’s also really good for helping scars to heal up and go away just anything for the skin and I use this in my skin trifecta oil which is my personal moisturizer that we use or that I use day by day so Bomb you can usually find this one in garden centers too a lot of people grow it as an ornamental and they don’t know that it’s medicinal so check this one out next up we have marshmallow and this plant is so fun you can use the leaves or the roots you can make a tea out of this or an infusion and there’s tons of ways to use marshmallow but my favorite use is for sore throats it just adds a nice coating to soothe a sore throat so I grow this one just for the sore throat benefits also tucked right here we have Valyan you may have heard of Valyan it’s actually a common supplement that people will buy Valyrian root to help with sleep but you can grow it yourself and it actually grows these really beautiful flowers so Valyan is a really powerful sleep aid but it’s also helpful for just relaxation um and stress relief it’s a hefty one so go light with it when you first start using it or you might sleep way too hard so Valyan is a good friend if you struggle with sleep though and then I also in this bed have mother wart let me show you mother wart is a wonderful herb for women’s health whether it’s PMS PCOS parameopause mother wart is a balancer for all things with women’s hormones and so this is another really good one to add to your garden and the plant is quite beautiful and then this giant bush is whound again you may have heard of whound it’s an old remedy people used to make whhound candy or whound cough lozenes so you probably already know how we use this one it’s a good natural cough suppressant but whhound is also just good for any sort of cough and cold so you can make a tea you can make a cough syrup you can make an infused honey there’s lots of ways to use whound but this one should definitely be in your garden if you have kids who tend to get coughs in the winter time grow some more hound and you’ll be prepared so sage might seem like an obvious herb if you cook with herbs often you probably use sage but it’s easy to grow and it will come back year after year you can see I have this ginormous sage bush behind me the sage bush is 3 years old and as you can see it will spread rapidly but sage is good for more than just cooking in fact sage is my go-to herb for sinus problems so if someone in my house has a sinus infection we are doing sage teas uh sage steam where we breathe in the steam from sage and even doing a compress of sage leaves on the face do we look silly maybe but when I tell you it helps with sinus pain you just have to try it and you’ll be amazed so sage all right over here in the shade it’s getting hot so we move to the shade i have some comfrey growing now comfrey is another really interesting plant and it sometimes gets a bad w in the medicinal world it can be a bit controversial while comfrey is not necessarily suggested to be taken internally there are some risks to that makes a really wonderful um oil or sav for muscle injuries or muscle aches so if you struggle with an aching back after you’ve been working in the garden you need to make a sav with comfrey and it will help with back pain or muscle aches um so comfrey is a fun one but I actually don’t grow comfrey purely for medicinal reasons i grow comfrey as a fertilizer for my vegetable garden because comfry grows this deep root that goes deep deep deep down into the ground and when it comes back up it’s pulling all of those good nutrients from deep in the soil up to the surface and so it’s sort of a natural fertilizer and it’s rich in nutrients so you can make a compost tea out of this where you cut your comfry back put it in a bucket fill it with water and let it turn into this steeped tea let it ferment and get really funky you want to let it sit for like a month and then you can use that as a concentrate and use it as fertilizer so you’ll use like you know a half a cup of your comfrey blend to a gallon of water and then you spray that on your plants or water them at the root level with it makes a great fertilizer so comfrey has lots of uses and it’s beautiful it blooms these pretty flowers um it’s pretty much done blooming now so you can’t really see but they look like bales when they open and they are just gorgeous so try growing some comfrey but I do recommend you put it in a container i’ve put it in a bed um because it will spread it loves to spread and it will take over so keep it contained and enjoy some comfrey one of my personal favorite herbs is spearmint and spearmint doesn’t get nearly enough attention in the herbalism community in my humble opinion but spearmint is wonderful for hormones and specifically I have PCOS and so I tend to struggle with higher levels of um androgens or male hormones testosterone that sort of thing spearmint gets that under control it’s a natural balancer and if you are a PCOS girly if you have polycystic ovarian syndrome and you need an herbal remedy spearmint spearmint is your best friend i like to make a tea out of spearmint and holy basil and red raspberry leaf and lemon balm those four together are like the magic combo i drink that tea every day for hormone balance and it keeps the PCOS symptoms at bay and completely under control so grow some spearmint it smells divine it smells so good so this is another one you want to keep in a container we have it in a little raised bed here because mints like to spread and they will take over your entire garden so put it in a spot where it’s contained and then let it get big and it will come back year after year and you’ll have spearmint for days another fun herb to grow and this one’s really a fruit but that one’s elderberry so I have elderberry bushes growing here and you can see they’re starting to flower we’re not quite to the berry stage yet but this is actually when I prefer to harvest my elderberry i like to harvest it as elder flour and then instead of making elderberry syrup or something like that I make an elderflower tincture and that is the best for fighting the flu it works better in my opinion try it for yourself and let me know in the comments what you think if elderberry or elder flour is more effective but elderflower can be taken as a tea or as a tincture both work really really well so add some elderberry bushes get them established and growing in your garden we really lucked up because we had about five of these just already growing here at the edge of our property when we moved in and I was so excited when I found them but we’re adding more we ordered 10 elderberry bushes to add to our fruit orchard because this is a staple and it’s something that I want to have more of so I can add it to more tea blends in my apothecary as well but yeah elderflower it’s the best you guys give it a try and listen here’s the thing i know we’re barely scratching the surface on herbs because there are so many options we haven’t even touched on things like rosemary basil i’m growing like seven kinds of basil um there are just endless things you can grow that are medicinal roses are medicinal colingula flowers are medicinal so my challenge to you is to choose three herbs and add three herbs to your garden this summer add a mint add a lemon balm and add a culinary herb like oregano and just start experimenting try to learn to use them follow along i’ll be showing how I harvest and use my herbs all summer long and I’ll show more of my herb plants as we go i We did a count last week and we have something like 38 or 39 different herbs growing on our property so I wanted to give you an overview of some of my favorites but obviously we would be here for like 4 hours if I showed you every single plant i’m a little herb obsessed but hopefully this gives you ideas for the most important medicinal herbs to know and grow and I would love to hear from you what are your favorite herbs what did you not see me mention that you think I should add give me more ideas because I want to add as many medicinals to my garden as possible so let me know what you think which herbs should I add what herbs are you growing this year and I’ll be back in a few days to give you an updated garden tour because guys the garden is really coming along so I’ll see you soon [Music]

48 Comments

  1. @Alison-k2d3k

    We have elderberry growing wild in our yard but I can never get the berries before the birds. Now I’m learning I can get the flowers instead?!! Super excited! ❤🎉

  2. @Alison-k2d3k

    Thank you for the video! I was really needing a pick me up this morning before heading into the garden to plant today. This video helped so much. Thank you! ❤

  6. @melanidueck4799

    Thank you for this video. I am kinda new to herbs, but love them. I got oregano, thyme, and 2 tiny little plants of lemon balm. Very exciting. We live in south america, Paraguay..can be very very hot in the summer time, also very windy. Please keep sharing your knowledge, happy to follow and learn from you.

  13. @MichaelDebono-b7s

    I love the Homework that your giving me. Buy, plant, grow, harvest and use, that's the way you really learn about your plant value. Then you actually remember its value, from real life.🎉🎉

  15. @AwestruckNow

    Wonderful video! Thank you for sharing. I also recommend trying hyssop. It is a bee magnet that attracts droves of pollinators to your garden. It can be used in teas and has a licorice type of flavor. The purple flowers are abundant and lovely. It spreads quickly via seeds, so plant it in a sunny place where you don’t mind if it reseeds nearby.

  16. @lynn682

    Feverfew has hijacked every piece of yard that I have lol, you should add Goldenrod. I’ve added several new herbs this year, including skullcap, vervain, anise hyssop, and bee balm. I’m trying to figure out where to plant my motherwort. Also herb obsessed 😅

  17. @aromaofhope

    Wow, you have a wonderful collection! I have skullcap, tansy, and stinging nettle, along with 5 or 6 of these you mentioned. Plus I nurture several of the naturally occurring weed/herbs, like plantain, chicory, and purslane. Anyway, good video!

  21. @patrice1966

    I’m a new subscriber, thanks for all of the wonderful information on herbs and how to use them.

    I’ve grown comfrey for years, and it’s spread to multiple places in my garden so DEFINITELY keep it contained.

    I’ve just started getting into using and growing herbs for medicinal purposes. I do grow some herbs for culinary use and have recently discovered the medicinal uses from them.

  22. @kimtaylor7544

    Thanks, great video. I love yarrow…I live in a high mountain desert area and it gets very cold but yarrow is perrennial here as well as many other places. Its great at stopping bleeding from wounds.

  23. @clintwalker7690

    I am not sure if elderflower, or elderberry is more effective. I do believe that a honey based elderberry syrup taste better with oatmeal, biscuits, or toast. Keep up the good work.

  27. @southla7581

    Just found your channel. Thank you very much for the way your teaching is. Showing us the actual plant is a Hugh help to find out placement in smaller areas.

  30. @01Barb

    Great tips thanks❤. So inspiring. I've found elderberry is extremely easy to propagate & very invasive if not pruned heavily 👌

  33. @heatherashley102

    Thank you for sharing. I have so much lemon balm, I also have garden sage , mint, spearmint, apple mint, chocolate mint,lavender. This year I planted. Chamomile, yarrow, echinacea, pineapple sage and just got 2 elderberry plants yesterday so excited

  35. @jenniferdelgado6754

    I literally just found out I have PCOS and it's interesting about the spearmint. ❤ I have 9 herbs in my garden. But just learning to use them. Sad I've had a garden for 7 years. Id like to learn more about them. Thanks

  36. @kathygravitt7956

    Lemon balm is wonderful for bug bites!! When you get bug bites, take a leaf and crush it. Rub on the bite and it will stop itching!!!

  37. @JulieDEhomesteader

    Hello Amber! I love when YouTube randomly recommends channels I have not seen. That is how I came upon you today! LOVED this video and I am now a subscriber 🤠I watch Roots and Refuge, Tiny Shiny Home, Gold Shaw Farm among others. Living Traditions just retired their channel, so glad I can replace them with yours!

  38. @lindarochefort9520

    Good info. But you flipped the herbal around and couldn't get a good eye on the herbs. We have to see them to identify them. Otherwise very informed

  40. @charlenawright568

    Ooo, honey! I’ve got six types of basil, three (possibly four, but I can’t place the taste of one plant) types of mint, three types of oregano, as well as stevia, French tarragon, lemon balm, rosemary, sage, parsley, and garlic chives. Did not grow tomatoes this year, since it keeps getting too hot too fast to keep them going in containers here (Louisiana, zone 8b)—and, even the morning sun was too harsh for them last summer. So, just herbs and a little lettuce (on the covered patio) this season.

  45. @jennyhackenberg

    I already have lemon balm and mint growing. I also just planted oregano. I am trying to figure out more uses for lemon balm.

  47. @dishnfish

    Chamomile is said to enhance the essential oils in plants around it. Which in turn enhances the flavor, and resistance to insects and disease. I also like yarrow in my garden, it brings in some beneficial insects.

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