Green Things: Smudging, Terraniums, and Garden Veggies

Smudging stone. My favs are the 3 listed below: sweetgrass, sage and cedar.  Smudging: if you don't know what it is .....google it.  i don't feel like explaining.  basically just burning herbs and plants.  see below for very brief/bare bones descriptions.

 

Sweetgrass.  Perfume-like, musty odor.  usually comes braided like this.  available from several different Native American shops/websites.  it's usually burned after sage and cedar; used to bring in good influences/spirits.         

There are many varieties of sage, and most have been used in smudging. The botanical name for "true" sage is Salvia (e.g. Salvia officinalis, Garden Sage, or Salvia apiana, White Sage). It is interesting to note that Salvia comes from the Latin root salvare, which means "to heal."  Used to drive out negative influences. 

Cedar: my favorite aroma of the three.  Used for protection, brings in good influences. 

One of my huge sunflowers....yellow finches love eating the seeds...they bring a lot of birds around.

                                                    Roma tomato plant.  lookin good so far.

Okra plants!!!  this is my first time trying this one.....so far so good! 

Here's an okra...kinda hard to see.....they match the leaves pretty good. 

One of my indoor hanging "air plants" they don't need any soil....just water once a week and fresh air. 

looks like a mini-tree skeleton.....this is my old geranium stem from last year.  geranium or mum, i can't remember which.  but it looks cool in the glass terranium. 

out of order picture: this is an okra flower!!!! its so pretty and i didn't even know those plants had flowers! 

giant okra! 

okra, tomato, corn and onion mix

This is one of the bugs that completely decimated my yellow and zucchini squash plants this year.  oh well.  i'm still kinda sick of eating squash since last year i got so many, i ate squash every day for about 2 months it seems like.  only got a couple squash this year before crop was destroyed.  I also have some green beans, and some corn.....corn isn't doing the greatest since its not in full sun.  beans didn't do too well either, its been so dry this year.  but i did get some and they were good!