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🗓️ 17 March 2020
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No, not the Musa species banana you and I are familiar with. Plantain is a practically ubiquitous weed that is highly prized as a medicinal for many different applications.
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening |
0:16.4 | hotcast we are joined again by Rosalie de la Foree she is an herbalist she's the |
0:22.4 | author of Wild Remedies, which is publishing April 7th. |
0:26.4 | So it's coming up pretty soon here. She's also the author of the book that's already out. |
0:30.4 | It's called Alchemy of herbs, about how to use herbs in your everyday life. |
0:34.5 | Now we've talked about dandelion nettles and chickweed and we're going to talk now |
0:39.8 | about plantain and what I know from my experience with plantains my |
0:45.6 | grandma used to use like the cooking bananas right and so she used to use those |
0:49.3 | and she would fry them in a brown sugary type of thing. |
0:54.0 | It's like a Filipino dessert that the name is blanking on me right now. |
0:58.0 | But that's how I have experienced Plantains. |
1:00.0 | I haven't grown them and really that's the only experience I have so I would love to |
1:03.7 | hear from your perspective you know what they are and how they play a part in your |
1:08.7 | herbalist approach. Yeah so planting is a special one in my heart because it's one of the very first plants that I ever learned and like you I was most familiar with the tropical banana like fruit. I lived in the Dominican Republic for a while and I loved |
1:25.3 | Platinos and so when I was in my very first weavy class and the the teacher |
1:31.5 | kept talking about plantain and we're up in Washington State and I was like, |
1:34.8 | really? They grow here? And she said, oh yeah, they're all over the driveway. And she took me upstairs to the driveway and |
1:41.4 | showed me Plantain, which is a completely different plant, and this low growing weed. |
1:47.0 | And that is something that I will never forget and is something that's often confusing because it's a similar name for the same common name for very different plants. |
1:57.0 | And so the weed that we're talking about is the genus is Plantago and then the plantain of the fruit is a |
2:06.2 | moosa genus so right right the banana genus yeah yeah so plantain is a really, really common plant and it grows everywhere and it loves to grow in trodden soils and it's so it's like loves to grow on trails, loves to grow where there's a lot of traffic and so it'll it's and it's really great for that because it |
2:27.1 | it forms a bandaid on bare soil protects the soil and you know helps it from hard panning breaks up the soil etc so it from hard panning, breaks up the soil, etc. |
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