Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)
Description: Red Clover is a wild plant from the legume family, which originates from Europe, Western Asia and Northwestern Africa. It is a perennial that has naturalized itself due to agricultural use all around the world.
Planting Instructions: Red clover is easy to grow with hardly any effort and germinates readily. Simply provide soil, water and sunshine and it will grow very well. It is frost hardy and grows regularly to over a foot in height.
Common Usage: Red Clover is very nutritious and is used to graze cattle. It is commonly used to build soil due to it's nitrogen fixating ability.
Possible Medical Benefits: Jethro Kloss (an American Herbalist) reports in his book "Back to Eden" that regularly drinking a tea made from the flowers is healing and purifying to the body as well as being helpful for people suffering from cancers and other systemic problems related to the purity of the blood. These reports are denied by the American Cancer Society.
Jethro's enthusiasm towards this herb is probably due to it's high levels of calcium, chromium, magnesium, niacin, phosphorus, potassium, thiamine, and vitamin C, which are all very necessary for normal operation of human internal systems. It is generally safe for consumption under normal conditions, except for people who suffer from coagulatory disorders of the blood.
Jethro's enthusiasm towards this herb is probably due to it's high levels of calcium, chromium, magnesium, niacin, phosphorus, potassium, thiamine, and vitamin C, which are all very necessary for normal operation of human internal systems. It is generally safe for consumption under normal conditions, except for people who suffer from coagulatory disorders of the blood.
Ideas for your free seeds:
Grow some micro-greens.
First soak your seeds for a few hours in warm water. Then place them in a shallow container with a few tablespoons of soil. Cover the soil and keep it moist. You should see sprouts within a day. Watch them grow for a week or two, then snip them off and add them to a salad.
Plant them in your garden.
With regular sun, they will grow nicely and produce beautiful red flowers that are modest, and which attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies.
Grow some micro-greens.
First soak your seeds for a few hours in warm water. Then place them in a shallow container with a few tablespoons of soil. Cover the soil and keep it moist. You should see sprouts within a day. Watch them grow for a week or two, then snip them off and add them to a salad.
Plant them in your garden.
With regular sun, they will grow nicely and produce beautiful red flowers that are modest, and which attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies.
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