Let it not be said that I’m not easily distractable or that I don’t chase weird things down a rabbit trail when something interesting presents itself. That was what happened when a “BUY MY CRAP NOW” post showed up on my Facebook feed.
The post was for a book of ‘lost’ amazingly woohoohoohooness foods that are supposed to not only turn water into wine but part the red sea and cure bubonic plague at the same time! I’m guessing the plague one is why it ends up being such a woohoo book right now. Everyone and his brother is looking for how to cure/prevent Covid 19.
BUT
That said… for some obscure reason, this ad actually had some information attached to it. It had a list of herbs and other plants that have been used forever in culinary and medicinal concoctions. The typical ad for this book never has anything useful, only teasers that send you to a website that has equally nothing useful other than “buy my crap”. So, I read the teaser and started to think.
One of the plants that it touted was moringa. I had heard of many of the other plants (the normal woohoo herbs and stuff) but I had never heard of moringa. There is probably a good reason I had never heard of it… it is native to the Indian subcontinent (but apparently also grows fairly commonly in Asia, Africa and South America. Since I’ve never been there, I have never run across it in its native land.
It has many common names… I like drumstick tree, bu tis is also horseradish tree, ben oil tree or benzolive tree.
It apparently contains a bunch of good stuff… vitamins, proteins, minerals… and is used for pretty much everything… While everything I’ve read suggests that it might not be miracle because there isn’t a bunch of research into it, it is something that people have used for years and years and years to aid in almost everything.
Yes, you ask your doctor before starting to take it with any medicine but it’s worth looking in to.
So I (naturally) immediately went and bought moringa seeds and started to learn how to grow it. Since it is a plant that loves heat, I know I have to grow it in a pot… so I found some big pots and started to research.
Here is my adventure…
June 18, 2020
This tiny green sprout has the potential to become a 50 foot tree.
I will have to prune it aggressively to keep it small enough to be useful as a house plant… tree… but when I saw this, last night, I was giddy that the seeds that I planted actually sprouted.
Granny Fricket's Thicket 