Plants that have astringent properties are good for that

Great information! I am so allergic to poison ivy. Every spring and fall and in between, major reaction! Yes, I was taught as a little kid and all the way through… what it looks like in each and every season…

Wow that’s amazing! I gotta save this somehow!

Cool! In the desert- it’s rabbit brush, which tastes like old gym socks.

Too bad it makes honey smell like old tennis shoes!

Thanks for the response. Appreciate it. Lynn

This is so true

@@kysmik8214 Probably much better off leaving the plant intact, I feel like bees would avoid plants that look damaged or dead. Besides I think the flower is better off attached so it can continue pollen/nectar production

How do you set the color?

@@markm8188 It was so easy. All I did was buy a little thing of alum from the grocery spice Isle. I used a teaspoon per cup of water. Just do a couple cups so a skein of yarn fits, or a bunch of paper. I soaked the wool (long enough to be thoroughly wet), or just dipped the paper quickly. You could let both items dry and dye at a future date, or dye it right away while wet. All I did was boil a pile of goldenrod for maybe half hour. Turned off, strained. Plopped the yarn it in (once cooled a bit) for at least an hour I think it was. Paper takes the dye by just dipping it quick and hanging to dry. It was hard to screw up. The one shawl I have now I did 5 years ago.. it is neon yellow still. :D I did the same with purple basil, exact same thing. It came out this gorgeous purply/grey color.

I think most plants turn things tan or yellow..but those two plants are amazing without any fancy mordant or toxic stuff used.

@@RunninUpThatHillh thank you for sharing that! I was going to ask which mordant(s) but I was beat to the punch. Another very vibrant natural dye is pokeberry. Poke is pretty toxic, so keep the berries (or leaves) away from children & pets, but the resultant bright magenta pink is another brilliant natural dye. (Poke sallat takes special handling to make edible.) Girls used to make a temporary hair stain with it, but mordants will set the dye. (Sorry, don't recall which mordants will do the trick, but I know you can search the interwebz for that & find it pretty easily.) Beauty berry (Callicarpa americana) is also ripe in September. Not sure if that brilliant pink would translate to any shade of pink with the proper mordant or not. (But it does make good jelly and pie filling.) There many are other good natural dyes you can grow & forage and the colors you end up with can vary a lot depending on which mordants you use. Blueberries, elderberries, horsetail, red cabbage, marigold blossoms, yellow onion skins, hollyhocks, Larkspur, beets/pickled beet juice, sunflower, amaranth, tobacco, heather, chamomile, dandelions, dahlia, cosmos, sumac, walnut, maple bark, red alder, butternut, cane berries, blood root, sassafras, crocus (saffron), coreopsis, and many more plants can all produce dyes of varying color. You can grow madder root, woad, lady's bedstraw, indigo, henna, and other traditional dye plants in your garden. (Note that some, like woad, are more intensive and/or toxic to process.) Alum, baking soda, copper pipe, ammonia, cream of tartar, wood ash lye, sumac twigs, urine, salt, vinegar, rhubarb leaves, oak or grape leaves (tannins), are all mordants that can be used in dying. I remember ladies in my spinner's flock that collected old wheat pennies to use as mordant (a handful in the dye or pre-soak pot???). I used to handspin, and white wool, while pretty, stains easily and can yellow over time, so you usually want to dye it. I am also a gardener & plant nerd, so making natural dyes is something that has deeply interested me since about 1995. I did play with dying wool and eggs for pysyanky many years ago.

I also used it for dye! It was such an incredible color 😮😮😮

Just about all honey has antibiotic properties. Even the most basic clover honey. It's the process of the bees and not so much the actual material.

Goldenrod honey is the worst tasting honey imo. Too strong of a taste

@@confucius2616 well, everybody has a different opinion, where I live we get some pretty good taste in Goldenrod honey, but I was really referring to it is supposed to be a higher antibiotic value. I don’t know if it is or not but I do know it works good in a lot of things, especially a burn and we ound Salve that the Amish make.

Honey is in itself an antibiotic

Time flys, straight and true...like an arrow let loose by an energetic youth.🎯😊

These are the stories I love to hear

Ah, the memories goldenrod brings! I wish I had known about the useful properties of goldenrod back then, not that I really needed to.

Time flies like an arrow... fruit flies like banana

@@VocalMabiMaple *groan

Enough to come gather some of your golden rod. I cant find any except along the highways and have been told that plants along the highways are toxic due to the fumes from vehicles and chemicals that the highway dept use on the roads .

Where in NY?

sell it as tea. It's so good.

I live in nevada i am looking for seeds to grow, are you selling seed?

What part of Ny

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Good to know 👍

How often did you drink it?

@@sharksport01 I'd like to know as well because it would help my husband.

How often do you use the tea? Thank you for posting !

Amen! Lived in Northern Virginia for almost 40 years. Now retired and live on 25 acres in the hills of WV! Our little piece of heaven! 😊

Wow

Rest in peace ARLO

Yup.. i had an American Boxer named Ammo that would do the same. I saw he liked those specific leaves, so i transplanted the plant into a pot to see what it would eventually flower into and it was goldenrod.

My dog lives slippery elm for her digestion

That's good to know! Thanks for sharing your experience using this wonderful plant.

Wonder if it helps pets with like yeast on skin or ears or some sort of really dry crusty ear no smell

How do you use the tinture for respiratory issues? I've looked and not able to find the answer. I know how to make it, just not to use it.

@@stevenlaake9975drink the vodka tincture until the issues go away. Easy peasy.

Bet that vodka had more to do with pain relief than the rod.

Pawpaws is what I harvested today. I’m from Indiana, so maybe you can’t do a video, but the benefits and uses would be helpful to hear.

​@@stevenlaake9975i use mullein for that

Good information!

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Is OK I it grows in someone else's yard... hate the allergies, and nonstop fight in the garden... 10 yes been trying to get rid of it

@@ronallens6204rag weed is most likely the allergen. It usually isn’t goldenrod. They are very often confused with one another.

@@ronallens6204 it's not the goldenrod messing you up. It's likely the rag weed growing close by.

Thank you so much!

Awesome

And that wooly bear caterpillar at the end too 💖

I added Goldenrod flowers to honey to extract the medicinal properties. I will add Goldenrod honey to my Goldenrod tea.

Thanks for sharing!!

It is definitely a nice look for a vase even better as a cup of tea

Not a weed.....

I will harvesting me some leaves tmrw for tea. Thank you so much. I just seen your channel .

Was talking to my friends today about this plant I couldn't think of the name they both said golden rod , and they both said some people was allergic to it. So I'm sharing your video to both of them.

Yes, thank you

Thank you so much !!! Awesome lecture we should be educating the kids in school biology and science the pandemic prove that we’re not teaching our kids right They need to learn these things because we don’t always have our stores open we don’t always have accessibility to products during a pandemic thank you so much for sharing looking forward to listening to you tell me more about other great things I new that Golden rod was great. I make my own salves also do you know about Black seed oil and bitter chamber and plantain it is a green weed and mulian also. What kind of Alcohol is a Vodka ????

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i love this ❤ amen ❤

Just to clarify: thank God FOR the harvest. Not pray TO the harvest.

A native seedbank in your soils! What a treat…

Distribution to the soil is where to look

Thanks for watching!

Did your flowers turn to fluff when drying? I already hung mine to dry. They turned to fluff, and someone else said she wouldn't use the fluff(dried flower). 🤷‍♀️

This is ludicrously false

I think they referring to it blooming in September. Not a whole lot of flowers this late.

Beautiful

Thank you for watching

Good luck!

That’s the bees territory. They must gather all the pollen they can before the weather turns cold. 🐝. 🐝.

I'll let them have the Golden Rod, as long as they promise to put in a good word for me@@e.conboy4286

Katie some of those are hoverflies. We got lots of them.

Leave the flower for them and you harvest the leaves. Our apples get so many bees on them but they don't sting us ofcourse we're somewhat careful we don't grab directly onto one. Maybe if you work the edge of your field first the bees will work their way in ahead of you.

You can try Google search and probably can find on line

Thank you so much

Thanks for watching!

Glad to hear it !!

My wife actually plants it in her flower bed in our yard for easy picking

@g2outdooradventures4 I encouraged the Goldenrod that migrated into my Garden from vacant lot next door. I kept a lot of it. Still have some dried followers from the last harvest. Delicious Tea, especially combined with Lemon Bal (which I let grow wherever it liked) and som raw Honey. 😋

That sounds wonderful!

Can you share the recipe please

I’d like to but I’m seeking a patent

I was always told that goldenrod was whT m a de me miserable in the fall. So glad to fin d out that it was unfairly accused for my sneezing and coughing.

Thanks for watching!

Thanks, you too!

A lot of people think they are allergic to goldenrod because ragweed blooms at the same time and grows in the same environment.

You bet!

Me too. I just bought a book on making tintures 2cwks ago. Can't wait to make some tea , and tincture tmrw .