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Natural Vibes
Natural Vibes
GROW GREEN HEART
Nature is the teacher
Nature is the teacher
“Grounded and pulsating with the Earth”
Awaken your ancestral connection with nature
Awaken your ancestral connection with nature
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Herbal teas
Oudoor plants
Matricaria chamomilla
Mentha piperita
Salvia Sclarea
Pimpinella anisum
Achillea
Malva
Foeniculum vulgare
Calendula
Now you have an excellent and specific selection of medicinal herbs for your garden.
This seed mix creates a complete medicinal ecosystem, ranging from aromatic herbs to edible flowers, combining digestive, relaxing, and balsamic properties.
The plants are divided into 3 height ranges, ideal for organizing pots and flowerbeds:
- giant plants (80-120 cm tall): wild fennel, anise, and mallow.
- medium plants (50-80 cm tall): yarrow
- short plants (20-50 cm tall): mint, chamomile, and marigold
This combination will transform your balcony or garden into a paradise for bees and butterflies, thanks to the variety of scalar blooms.
Your space will be characterized by a mix of sweet, balsamic, and floral notes.
The message of Green Heart
Grow Green Heart
Rooted and pulsating with the Earth
The act of cultivating and sipping becomes a ritual of dialogue with something greater.
The relaxing herbal tea not only invites relaxation and unwinding, but also becomes the key to tapping into the planet's inexhaustible energy.
Grounding
Cultivation is the first act of reconnecting with Mother Earth. Growing herbal tea plants is not work, but a sacred dialogue that creates the vibrational predisposition to return home. With every seed planted and every leaf harvested, you build the foundation of your rootedness, preparing yourself for a profound and intimate connection with the original source.
Awakening the Body
The relaxing herbal tea acts on the body, reaching down to the cellular structure, to dissolve the armor of tension. A body freed from the grip (of stress, fatigue, tiredness) is a body that finally "feels." When muscles relax, cells stop being defensive and begin to vibrate in unison with life.
Openness to Listening
Only in total relaxation does the body become a sensitive antenna. By releasing physical tension, you open your senses to listening to your surroundings. You tap into that beneficial vibrational field—the breath of the forest, the heartbeat of the earth, the song of the water—entering a resonance that was previously blocked by the noise of your fatigue.
The Green Heart
Now the Green Heart can finally begin to pulsate. It is your infinite internal resource, a core of pure energy that never runs out because it is incessantly nourished by the Earth itself. Recognize this heart as an eternal and living engine, beating to the rhythm of wild and sacred nature.
Green Heart is:
"When the body connects to the earth, the heart finally begins to beat, truly.
It is not you who sustains nature, it is nature that pulsates within you."
Instructions
Seed characteristics:
It contains a supply of nutrients that, after germination, ensures that the young plant can develop its basic organs—roots, stems, and leaves—before it is able to photosynthesize and grow with its nourished green leafy organs (autotrophy).
Nutrient reserves are usually created in the cotyledons (first embryonic leaves), and in some species also in a special nutrient-rich tissue (endosperm) found within the seed.
The seedling initially grows thanks to the nutrients stored in the seed, which are transported to the growing parts and used there as building materials. A large seed contains many nutrients. The seedling is correspondingly large from the start. When the cotyledons are open, light for photosynthesis, temperature, and water supply play an important role in growth.
Even if the seedling suddenly appears to stop growing, there will be increased root growth in the soil as a basis for optimal care, which your seedling needs for vigorous above-ground growth.
Growing medium:
Ordinary potting soil is not particularly suitable for sowing. It contains too many fertilizer salts. This means that the seeds can rot in it, or the germinated plants will die because the fertilizer salts damage their delicate roots. The provided substrate is low in nutrients, germ-free, and water-permeable. At the beginning of growth, the seedling substrate is used primarily to anchor the seedling and provide uniform moisture. Minerals (fertilizers) are not initially necessary, as the seeds "bring" them with them.
There is another advantage to a seedling substrate with only a low fertilizer content: the plant then forms more root mass (main and lateral roots, nourished by the seed's nutritive tissue) and thus, to put it anthropomorphically, increasingly "seeks" minerals, which allows for vigorous growth after the start of photosynthetic activity.
Plants grown in well-fertilized soil (e.g., potting soil from gardening stores) invest more in shoot and leaf growth and less in root growth, which often leads to less plant stability after planting.
Water and Proper Irrigation
Water should have as little limescale as possible. In most cities, water is unfortunately hard and calcareous.
Rainwater is ideal, or you can boil tap water and water your plants. It's best if the irrigation water is at room temperature.
After moistening the entire growing medium once at the beginning, it's best to prepare the water in a spray bottle and spray the growing medium daily. This way, the moisture is applied more evenly and prevents the seeds from washing away.
Air
Plants need water. However, the fact that plant roots also need air and breathe oxygen is often overlooked. Therefore, care must be taken to ensure that the soil is not compacted, that the pots are not directly in water, and that air can return to the roots after watering.
Protection:
Most pests, such as whiteflies, spider mites, red spiders, aphids, and scale insects, appear when the room air is too dry. In this case, ventilate more frequently or spray the plant leaves with water as low in lime as possible to increase humidity. This method is very successful.
Spray the leaves and soil surface with a vegetable broth, for example. To do this, add 100 g of fresh herbs to 1 liter of water and let it steep for 24 hours.
Then boil for half an hour, let it cool, and pass it through a sieve. Dilute this broth with 2 liters of water and pour it into a spray bottle.
A green thumb requires time and experience:
In nature, only a small fraction germinate successfully and/or subsequently become strong plants.
With an optimal growing environment and a few helpful tips, we try to significantly increase the success rate, but even then, 100 percent success is not guaranteed, and sometimes no seeds germinate at all.
We know firsthand that there are many failures on the road to becoming a green thumb, but we've never let this discourage us; on the contrary, every failure has always given us new energy to try again and again, even better.
Let's learn from the obstacles:
- If the growing medium is too moist, the seed can mold.
- If the growing medium is too dry, even briefly, the germination process can be interrupted, and many seeds will not resume the process later, even if there is sufficient moisture.
- The temperature ranges we specify during cultivation are based on experience, but seeds react individually and are sensitive to temperature changes.
- Germination time is also an empirical average and should not be interpreted too restrictively. Even in nature, there are sometimes significant delays, so much so that germination can occur very, very late.
Sowing Instructions:
It's best to sow seeds from March to May.
You can sow all eight varieties at the same time.
Indoors/in a seedbed: You can start as early as late February or early March to protect the seedlings from frost.
Outdoors: Wait until April or May, when temperatures are consistently above 15°C.
Planting depth: This is the critical point. Most of these seeds are "light germinators."
Golden rule: Don't cover the seeds with too much soil. Spread them on the surface and press them gently into the moist soil. At most, cover them with a very thin layer of soil (less than 0.5 cm).
Patience, perseverance, and waiting:
Cover the container with plastic wrap (which you will need to pierce) or with the box lid, which you will also need to pierce. This will protect the soil from drying out.
Every two or three days, remove the plastic wrap for two hours. This prevents mold from forming on the soil.
Week 2-3: Germination
Place the container in a warm, humid place between 20° and 22° C (68° and 72° F) and keep the soil moist, but not wet. The seeds will germinate after 2-3 weeks.
Once the seedlings reach 5-10 cm (2-4 inches) in height, you'll need to thin them out to make room for the roots:
Average spacing: Leave about 25-30 cm (10-12 inches) between plants.
Height: Consider that plants like fennel and mallow can grow to over 1 meter (3-3 feet) tall, while chamomile and mint remain shorter (30-50 cm). Place the tallest ones at the back.
Harvesting and Use for Herbal Teas:
The best time is during flowering (usually between June and September). For mint and fennel, you can harvest the leaves throughout the summer.
Natural drying: Tie the herbs into bunches and hang them upside down in a shaded, dry, and ventilated area.
Artificial drying: Use a dehydrator (set the temperature to 30°-40°C) or in the oven, setting the temperature to low and monitoring the condition.
Herbal tea preparation:
Use 1-2 teaspoons of dried herbs (or a handful of fresh leaves) per cup.
Pour boiling water and let steep for 8-10 minutes, covering the cup to preserve the essential oils.
Location:
A sunny location is preferred.
Soil:
Forget cheap, often lifeless, universal potting soil.
- 60% Organic professional potting soil: A blend of blond and brown peat moss that provides structure.
- 20% Earthworm humus: This is the key element. Humus provides microorganisms that make the soil "intelligent," capable of nourishing the plant in accordance with its needs.
- 20% Drainage material (river sand or pumice): prevents stagnation and allows water to flow.
Water:
No limescale: the most common mistake is using the right substrate but watering with hard (calcareous) tap water.
Winter:
Plants are completely frost-resistant.
Many seem to disappear in winter: the above-ground parts dry out and all the energy withdraws into the roots.
FAQ
Can I use the herbal tea waste as a seed starter?
Yes, let the residual part cool in the filter and then add it to the substrate as natural humus.
Can these plants live indoors?
No, they are medicinal plants. Their main benefit lies in the essential oils produced naturally with the benefit of sunlight and photosynthesis.
Better in a pot or in the ground?
In open ground, the roots grow freely and growth is explosive. In a pot, the plant self-limits.
Both solutions are fine, and the plants are not affected.
If after a few months I don't see any sprouting, what can I do?
Check the seed by digging it up slightly to make sure it is still there, that it hasn't rotted, and above all, that the substrate is moist.
How can I keep the soil moist during germination?
Spray daily or every other day.
Remove the film for half an hour approximately every three days to prevent mold growth.
Can I fertilize herbal tea plants?
Fertilization can be avoided or reduced to just once a year (spring).
I remind you that their "resilience" comes from difficulty.
It's precisely when the plant has to work a little that it produces the highest concentration of active ingredients. If you overfertilize these plants, they will become green and lush but lack a scent.
Does it grow fast?
Some have expansive growth, urgently needing to occupy the soil and regenerate.
Others grow in a structured and solid manner, with steady but measured growth, taking time to develop their woody stems.
How important is light?
Without sufficient light, plants attempt to "escape" upward (they're said to be "stretching").
They appear to be growing rapidly, but in reality, they're weakening.
True vital growth is compact and dense.
Does harvesting damage the plants?
For herbal tea plants, harvesting is a stimulus. Picking the leaves for your herbal tea communicates to the plant that its gift has been accepted, encouraging it to produce new sap.