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- From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
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- Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fennel
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:15:49 -0600
We use the bulb in many recipes from different vegetarian cookbooks and like it. There are some butterflies whose larvae use it as a host plant, so we don't have much luck growing it for seed. It's mostly grown for the butterflies around here.
I use the seed more as a medicinal herb than I do a cooking spice. I put them in a tea ball and steep in hot water to make a tea, which I then cool and use by eyedroppers full in my and my pets eyes. It will clear up itchy red eyes and eye infections. If you have tried the oily opthalmalic ointments prescribed by doctors and thought they were gross, and couldn't wear contact lenses because of them, then this herbal medicine is for you. It stings slightly, but then brings great relief. Eye infection is usually gone the next day.
--Sage
Way Out in Texas
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:47:16 -0500
EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
What am I missing here?
When I think of fennel, I think seeds. I've never used/eaten anything
but the seeds.
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[Homestead] Fennel,
EarthNSky, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Fennel, Lynda, 11/17/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Fennel,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Fennel, bob ford, 11/17/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Fennel,
eureka, 11/17/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Fennel,
bob ford, 11/17/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Fennel,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Fennel, Jeanne Driese, 11/17/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Vegetarian diet was Fennel,
eureka, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Vegetarian diet was Fennel, bob ford, 11/17/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Vegetarian diet was Fennel,
EarthNSky, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Vegetarian diet was Fennel, bob ford, 11/17/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Vegetarian diet was Fennel,
bob ford, 11/17/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Vegetarian diet was Fennel,
eureka, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Vegetarian diet was Fennel, EarthNSky, 11/17/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Vegetarian diet was Fennel,
eureka, 11/17/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Fennel,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 11/17/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Fennel,
bob ford, 11/17/2008
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