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Your Guide to Using Essential Oils for Pest Control

December 3, 2023

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Join our vegetable gardening community! 🍅🌽🥦 You'll find a community of like minded gardeners wanting to connect, learn, and grow together. A space where you can share your gardening experiences, ask questions, and get advice from both fellow beginners and seasoned gardeners!

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I can't wait to see you there ☺️

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This evening I felt like I was winning at life...h

This evening I felt like I was winning at life...homemade tortillas served with fresh ingredients 🍅 🥕 🌶️ 🫑 fresh from the garden. Accompanied not with a cliche glass of wine, but a tasty mocktail of nourishing #essentialoils and my daily #ningxiared antioxidant and vitamin drink- delish!

To top it all off, this past year I've dreamed of making my own #sourdough, and last week I finally took the plunge, bought a course, and my daughter and I have made it our mission to master sourdough together! 🍞

Mostly because it's so much better for our gut, but also because I don't agree with the govt force medicating the population, and it's such a wonderful activity I can do with my daughter. We can't wait to explore the delicious world of sourdough creations (watch this space!)

I'd say it's been a pretty good day ☺️

What have you always wanted to do? I hope I have inspired you to take a step towards your goal!

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This week we harvested the community corn patch 🌽 The harvest was a lot of fun but unfortunately not as bountiful as we initially hoped.

Still, any seasoned gardener will tell you that every growing season is about learning and trying something new next time.

So...here are my top 3 learnings from growing corn this year:

1️⃣ We planted too late (around New years). If we'd planted before Christmas the plants would've been bigger and stronger, resulting in a higher yield

2️⃣ Corn has an ideal harvest window of two weeks. This is when it's the sweetest and most juicy. Miss this and the starch in the corn rises making it chewy and unsuitable to store. Slice it off and pop it in the freezer

3️⃣ Beware of pests! Army worms, ants and rats got to our corn this year due to the fact we harvested late. Lucky them, lesson learned for us.

#growingcorn #beginnervegetablegardening #thepotagerproject #gardeninglessons

I'm going to tell you a secret...sometimes I long

I'm going to tell you a secret...sometimes I long for a bag of prewashed, precut carrots! 🤦 Especially when it's 5.30pm, the kids are hungry and you have to go out in the rain to dig up carrots for dinner! Then you still need to wash and prep them! 🥕

Growing your own food involves extra work and it's messy! But you know what? I know exactly what has been sprayed on my veggies, what's been added to the soil and how fresh the produce is....all things considered, I'll take the extra prep time and dirty sink any day!

#beginnervegetablegardening #thepotagerproject #growingfood #growingcarrots #homesteadinglifestyle

Step into my ‘grocery’ store and come shopping

Step into my ‘grocery’ store and come shopping with me! 🛒

There are many benefits to growing your own food but my number one has to be the cost saving of growing fresh, organic produce at home.

Yes there is a cost to growing a garden, but when you're making your own #compost and saving your own seeds, it's minimal!

Here's what you can enjoy from #growingyourownfood

👉Eating organic without the high pricetag
👉If you forget something you can go outside and grab it
👉You have control over your seed supply
👉Produce is FRESH as possible and therefore highest nutritional value

Every day I pop out into my garden and every week I do a big harvest for the week ahead. If I was to buy this harvest from the supermarket this is what I would pay at non organic prices and all of my produce is organic, so really I should double these costs…

Carrots 🥕 $2.50/kg

Butternut 🎃 $6.50ea

Cucumber 🥒 $2.69ea

Tomatoes 🍅 $6.49/kg

Avocados 🥑 $2ea

Potatoes 🥔 $3.99/kg

This week's fruit & veggie saving = $47.87

Organic savings equivalent = $95.74

Here on #thepotagerproject and on my website www.thepotagerproject.com you'll find plenty of beginner gardening tips so you can get started.

Whether it's a few pots or a full potager, I encourage you to start somewhere on your journey towards growing your own food 💚

#gardeningonabudget
#beginnervegetablegardening
#gardeningforbeginners #growyourownfood

😂Isn't this the truth! 😂 If you manage to t

😂Isn't this the truth! 😂

If you manage to train your weeds, won't you please let me know...

#beginnervegetablegardening #vegetablegardening #thepotagerproject

Valentine’s Day is over, but there’s a way to

Valentine’s Day is over, but there’s a way to keep your flowers fresh for longer. A team of researchers has found that adding lemongrass essential oil to your vase can increase the life of cut flowers by 4 days or longer 🌺🌹 Pretty cool huh!?

In a study, published in the journal Scientific Reports Tuesday, researchers from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (CSIR-IHBT), Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, explained how a splash of lemongrass essential oil could solve premature wilting in gladiolus flowers thanks to its antimicrobial and antioxidising properties.

Has anyone else tried this trick?

#thepotagerproject #lemongrassessentialoil

When I go away I hate over packing, so I'm always

When I go away I hate over packing, so I'm always very intentional in what I take ✈️ This time, however, I was a little too light in my packing for Australia as by GOLLY I missed having my oily starter box!

Here are the 11 oils I took and 3 oils I WISH I'd taken!!

💗PEPPERMINT: So good to cool down on a hot day and for concentration during conference. Also became my muscle rub because I forgot Panaway

💗PROGESSENSE PLUS: I don't go anywhere without my hormone support roller, I use it morning and night without fail!

💗ENDOFLEX: Another one I use every day for hormone support

💗LAVENDER: No explanation needed! An essential for sleep, bug bites and sunburn

💗ORANGE: This is my fav oil, I just love it combined with lavender to relax

💗STRESS AWAY: To diffuse and as a perfume!

💗JOY: A great start to the day (who doesn't want to begin their day with joy!) I just use this straight as a perfume

💗VALOR: My confidence oil! Networking is not my fav thing to do so I created a scent tent with this baby every morning and used in a roller with orange throughout the day

Premade Rollers:

♥️WELLNESS: An absolute must before going on a plane or into a busy room to ward off any bugs going round

♥️SLEEP: A big help with jetlag!

♥️HEAD TENSION: 2 days of conference can be strenuous so this helped a lot on the back of my neck and shoulders.

I used every single one of these oils on my trip but there are definitely three I WISH I had brought along with me…

💙PANAWAY: I had such a sore neck and shoulders sitting all day and by the end I was yearning for this muscle rub!

💙R.C. or EUCALYPTUS: The day before I left I had a bit of a cough and wish I had this baby to diffuse in the hotel room overnight - it always works to clear up a cough

💙THIEVES: Combined with R.C for the reasons above and also would've liked to have diffused it after the plane to make sure any potential sickness from the plane A/C would stay away.

One of the benefits of #essentialoils is how small and compact they are, so really I shouldn't have been so strict on my packing! Plus, did you know it's possible to bring them on a plane as hand luggage?

What are your go-to oils when you travel? ✈️

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