Can you eat grass?

[@paintedgoat376]

Dehydration also helps to break down cell walls to allow for more access to nutrients.

[@Ksyazup]

as well as freezing?

[@staceylees23]

And i find it slightly caramelises the things i dry out, adding a nice sweetness when i use them again.

[@petergoestohollywood382]

About how long am I not supposed to drink before eating grass then? Any approximation? :D

[@ernestzavier2377]

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[@damienangelo1229]

@Ernest Zavier instablaster :)

[@BackToReality]

Hey guys! First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR! :) Second... after uploading this video the first time (about an hour ago), I noticed a glitch part way through (there was 18 seconds of black screen - sigh), so I pulled it down temporarily to fix it. We're back up and running now though! Sorry for the confusion!

[@cylais3518]

Happy new year. I found your channel a while ago with the garlic video's. How are they doing?

[@BackToReality]

Hi Cylais, we had a great garlic harvest this year, and have replanted many of them for next year’s crop. They’re cozy under a layer of mulch (and snow) at this point, but should hopefully do well in the spring :)

[@claudiaw9246]

Happy new year! As always, many thanks for putting together such interesting and informative videos. Your graphics are also always very helpful for those of us who are visual learners.

[@AB-wf8ek]

When my dad bought his first house in the states the neighbour complained because he didn't know dandelions were considered weeds and he let them cover the yard. In China they're considered a delicacy and people often harvest them as soon as they appear so that it's actually rare to find them. It's funny to think the reason certain weeds become a problem is because we don't see the value in them.

[@BackToReality]

Our perspective shapes our reality... I really liked this comment. Thanks for sharing.

[@yaoidreams2993]

I was born and raised in the states and so were my parents. my dad always saw dandelions as weeds, but my mom and I are always interested in what parts of nature are edible and can be used for different purposes (we are just nature lovers in general) and so we like when dandelions appear! we them as flowers and we like them for making tea and salads.

[@johnharvey5412]

Dandelion greens are a staple for poor rural folks here in Appalachia, and the flowers can be used for jelly!

[@bellydancingdog]

I absolutely love your videos. While amazing and educational, theyre very relaxing because of how you talk and narrate. You're very talented and having grown up doing some basic front lawn gardening and many years at an outdoorsy very green minded summer camp, these videos always make me feel so nostalgic and warm inside. Long story short, thank you for sharing and letting us be a part of your experiences!

[@nzmermaid]

I recently looked into "free edible weeds etc" and found that all grass SEEDS are digestible if they are sprouted like you sprout alfalfa or clover seeds. They are very nutritious as well. So when you see the seed heads collect them & sprout in a glass jar as you would any sprouts. I have also heard you can juice the grass in a blender with a little water, & then strain the pulp out to be nutritious & drinkable. I actually did this when one of my pups was off color & she lapped it up. I didn't give her much, but she liked what I gave her.

[@borlani]

I am sure I remember reading that when dogs eat grass one of the types they will choose is couch grass. I think we assumed the purpose was to make them sick - thus cleansing the stomach - but I wonder if they also get some medicinal benefit from whatever nutrients might be in it, I'm wondering if the cellulose is the vomit-inducing component, but there are also soluble aspects that improve health. I was told that dogs won't eat if they're sick - and had a dog from kennels that was suffering from bad stomach and dhiarrea - as a novice I tried offering her a variety of foods, which, she, wisely, would not eat. However, we left out some spare ribs on our coffee table after a chinese meal and she DID eat the sauce on the ribs, which contained ginger, cinnamon garlic and star anise, all of which I consider beneficial for the stomach - so I believe she was self-medicating. Shortly after, she had one last purge and then got better and her appetite returned to normal. Well, I suppose a good part of good science is pure observation. I might say to myself "Dang! that cat/dog is eating grass - now I will have to watch for it being sick later. " when, in fact, I should be trying to work out what TYPE of grass it was and researching into that.

[@nzmermaid]

@@borlani Thats very interesting. I do believe dogs are more in tune to what they need than most of us. I think they get chlorophyll from grass & also the roughage. I am unable to grow mint because one of my dogs just loves it and can eat through a healthy looking plant before I know it. lol. So I feel like she must need whatever nutrients she gets from mint - obviously its good for stomach problems!

[@namAehT]

"Microgreens" are starting to see widespread appeal. You could probably do that with grass sprouts

[@Arxeon.]

@@borlani Just remember that garlic is part of the onion family which is toxic to dogs.

[@jackwheatley8]

hi, do you have link to the article talking about this please?

[@BalticHomesteaders]

I was watching the video and then my wife was watching over my shoulder. She said during 'soviet times' you could harvest these like you have and the local chemist would pay you by weight. She thinks they dried and crushed into powders to sell perhaps as tea ingredients but maybe other herbal remedies. Latvia and indeed the Baltics are still quite in touch with herbal medicine benefits and still retain a lot of wisdom. We'll ask about and if we find anything else out will come back to you.

[@nermainmerl6108]

Just commenting for that comeback

[@brokebloke5834]

@@nermainmerl6108 same

[@Sofie72]

That would be interesting to hear more about :)

[@vintageantsinmyblood8153]

Lmk

[@jackwheatley8]

priekā!

[@JustTheBasicsJS]

I have heard that all grass is basically edible. But when talking to an organic farmer in my area whole grew and sold wheatgrass, he said to always filter the wheatgrass because the fiber isn’t healthy to eat, and we can’t digest it anyways. So you know, if you’re not in an emergency at the moment, the best way to consume it is probably to juice it, like you juice wheatgrass.

[@dingdong8608]

Your videos are always so calming to sit through

[@Sraccoon68]

Much to you's also, a great new year Paula and Derrick! Psst, if you's EVER need more of them roots for more tea, your both more then welcome to take everyone of them things outta my backyard. Oh and totally at no cost! 😝

[@fadetounforgiven]

I'm no expert in tea whatsoever, I can't even remember the last time I had a cup of tea, but using logic I think that the drying part is somewhat important. I guess one of the reasons is conservation and another one would be weight (no water means less chance for mould and easier to transport). But also, I think that once you've removed water, you're left with "the good stuff", so when you apply hot water to make your grass-tea, it's that hot water that extracts the flavours and there's no extra water in there which, to me, kind of makes a more concentrated tea, more flavor, although not as "fresh". Those are my two cents.

[@GrzegorzJanoszka]

Hi, in the country where I grew up it is popular to drink all kinds of herbs as tea. While in western countries most people know only chamomile and/or mint tea, I used to drink at least 10 more sorts of herb teas - each one with unique flavor. Of course you don't have to buy them, you can also harvest and prepare them yourself. Dehydration is only for long storage, fresh tea is even better. You can make seasonal mixes of almost anything you find around the garden. Try St. John's wort (goatweed), lime tree (baswood) flowers, sage, mulberry, milk thistle, horsetail (snake grass), wild pansy, lemon balm and so on, and so on :) Happy New Year!

[@BackToReality]

Thanks for this comment. I’m feeling so inspired to new herbal teas now! Out of curiosity, which country did you grow up in?

[@GrzegorzJanoszka]

@@BackToReality Poland :)

[@weirdowsos4774]

I got curious and searched if grass has any nutritional value and learned so much interesting stuff

[@scott3991]

When I was younger I used to chew grass to hide the smell of smoking. I never used to swallow the pulp but the juices that came from smaller varieties of grass were quite sweet the taller grasses were not very tasty at all.

[@marypaino1327]

Have to share a contrary to the norm observation of this devil grass, A community garden had an abandoned bed that had become overgrown with the grass and catnitp. This was a very hot dry summer and few tomatoes to be had but that abandoned bed, come to find out, had a huge cache of plump plumb tomats and in addition the bed was hardly watered

[@dlsdyer9071]

The dehydrating would lend itself to pulverizing in a mortar and pestle without creating a paste. Then use a coffee filter with a twist tie or organic cotton string. The water should be heated to just below boing. Most medicinal teas require a five minute steep. A roasting would add a toasty flavor but may ruin the health benefits.

[@paulsmart5199]

Happy new year to you both. Heres to a good 2021. May your garden be bountiful and your endeavours be rewarded. Be safe, be happy!!

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

From the Chinese herbal perspective, this tea would likely be slightly cooling in nature, and would drain damp. Also, the preparation process would impact the effect of the herb, probably mitigating its cooling impact and making it easier to assimilate & digest. ☯️💙🌲 Thanks for the fun experiment!!

[@joshthehomesteader229]

Just found your channel and have been devouring all your videos. Just in time to because I was able to set up my first ruth stout beds before the first snows. I found out the buried logs in my raised beds actually have a name, and I love your experiments with building solutions to problems. From zone 6b in the states keep them coming!

[@MrAllan9]

Good to know, we may be eating grass in the near.

[@Farmerknowsbest]

We did the no-til garden thing for 3 years and have fought the last 3 droughts enjoying the straw mulch for it s ET benefits. But this year with that cold spring the slugs decimated our garden, and quack grass decided it was its year to make its move. My wife called uncle after replanting the second time and removed the mulch to get the soil to finally warm up and let the plants get ahead of the slugs. That let the quack grass flourish even more and creeping charlie to join the party. I gave up this fall and instead of cover cropping opted to do a fall burn down with roundup weathermax and eragon and ran the rototiller. Hopefully after some composted beef manure and some elemental sulfur we'll make the no-til thing work very well with what we've learned over the last 3 years.

[@NewYorkJennifer]

I'll have to say, when you uncovered the quack on your garden bed preparing to dig it up, I had this gut feeling of dismay seeing it. Nothing strikes that feeling like seeing an invasion of that grass into the garden beds. Here it is snow on the ground outside, and not even my garden! but the feeling on the sight of it . . . Shudder!

[@dandavatsdasa8345]

Starvation would probably get me to wondering about eating grass. I am finding it not entirely easy to get around mastering all possibilities regarding foragable plants for food and medicine. Wild grape grows in the neighborhood and seems only good for a few leaves here and there. If anyone has some facilities develop food forests. But be cautious about planting beneficial plants on some kind of public land. Some beneficial plants are invasive and may need to remain restricted to private property. To get rid of grass in the Garden I think that covering the ground with some layers of cardboard can help to kill off weeds and grass. Natural or Organic techniques like this seem more likely to be managed on a small farm of 1-5 acres. Some vegetables are more completely edible and the tendency is to eat or sell only certain parts of the plant. An easy example is the Broccoli plant. What better way to fight Agricultural pollution than to buy organic and grow organic. Thank you for sharing helpful videos!

[@lauriebenzie1386]

A fun and interesting video. Thank you. How was your harvest this past fall, 2020? I don't see a video yet.

[@Nettietwixt]

My grandfather managed to cause a fire in a nearby forest one summer because he started a bonfire in his garden and the flames went along dry couch grass runners and then popped up the other side of the hedge. We have it throughout our garden. It's incredibly annoying.

[@qwertyzoion]

Wash thoroughly the all plant, dry it and make a dust in mixer whit 40% of sugar(no parts, weight) : you should have a soluble tea-like powder you can store for mouth. I think the powder (without sugar) it's used in pharmaceutical receipts named " Excipient up to 100%"; like Salix in some case.

[@dosfisdo]

I recommend toasting them in a dry heated pan. (like you would spices to awaken their oils). This should add some depth of flavor. Some 'caramelization' .

[@nefariousyawn]

I was looking for this comment before saying so myself. Lots of herbs are toasted and/or fermented before infusing in a beverage, especially tea leaves. If I were to try this in a tea, I would probably just strip the roots off like one would strip the leaves off a sprig of thyme by pulling it between my fingers.

[@christopherstein2024]

Eating Quackgrass to gain nutrition

[@marthathompson2012]

Sometimes it is also helpful to chop dehydrated plant parts before steeping them into tea because it creates more surface area

[@Hildarting]

If the taste is too bland, you can always use it as a base and mix in other herbs with more flavour.

[@michaelpcoffee]

Grass has been our staple for 14,000 years.

[@keralee]

All grasses are invasive pests...am convinced God created Cows and geese to save the planet from being choked out by grasses. The ONLY weed I have any trouble with controlling is my neighbors lawn grass, creeping over relentlessly. All others are easily managed with judicious use of competitive exclusion principles. I prefer dandelions and docks for teas myself, good mineral content and much easier to harvest and process, plus I use mints heavily for their competitive nature.

[@Somebodyuprobsknow]

Pigs for the natural trash. Shellfish for the sea poop. God is good all the time

[@alexreith4877]

I've never had quackgrass tea, but I grow lemon balm specifically for making iced tea and typically I just cut the plant just above the ground, wash in plenty of water, give it a quick spin in the salad spinner and then stuff a mason jar, add boiling water, let steep, and then pour out through a sprouting lid into a pitcher of ice. I would assume that drying herbal tea is optional. For me personally I haven't enjoyed dried lemon balm tea as much as fresh lemon balm tea, so the flavor is different, but not necessarily worse if you don't dry it.

[@alexisinboxes]

Admit it, you searched for this..

[@shkico4513]

I made the tea years ago but yeah, I didn't clean it much and I didn't dry it. Drying is good for long term storage, and cleaning those tiny things is just nitpicking in my opinion.. I just tried the tea once for the sake of trying it out since it is mentioned in the old books but other than that I didn't bother with it again, there are tons of plants to gather either for homemade tea or for homemade medicine..

[@ivacheung792]

Fascinating! I don't know if you're up for keeping guinea pigs, but they will eat your quackgrass and turn it into some of the best fertilizer I've ever used.

[@betadoctor]

Over here where i live in Europe we just have the grass eaten by cows, this prevents lots of unnecessary chewing, bad aftertaste and regular constipation. .. instead we just eat the cows.

[@MostIntelligentMan]

fiber removes any constipation u idiot

[@domingo2977]

Please give me that link for the 12,000 edible wild grass species

[@zmdeadelius]

I see the question about dehydration has been properly answered already, so I just wanted to say I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS :) I'm stuck living in a 3x4m room in the city and it's a breath of fresh air to spend some time thinking about gardening and nature in general.

[@dhawthorne1634]

Fresh leaves make herbal teas bitter and tasting kind of green, like cooked spinach or that smell you get when pruning ornamental plants. It can be avoided by making sun tea, but that is prone to mold growth in about 5-7 days. I'm not sure about rhizomes since they don't have chlorophyll, you may not have the same problem. Personally, I would probably still dry them then toast them in a dry pan to give a bit more flavor to the tea.

[@theallotmentkitchengarden3694]

Happy New Year! 🎉 I have Couch Grass around my allotment plot (in Cambridge, UK). I use various mulches (compost, cardboard, chop and drop) and I find it reduces the couch. Even if it starts to encroach, it doesn’t completely take over and it doesn’t appear to impact the crops. My chickens like eating grass so I can harvest some for them, and it works well as “chop and drop” in the dry summer months. I don’t think it will ever go away, but it definitely can be managed (just as BINDWEED - do you have this? Even the chickens don’t eat it 🤦‍♀️)

[@CrankyBubushka]

Very interesting! Yes, next time use it fresh. Pound pieces in a mortar and pestle to break open cells and nutrients. Then pour boiling water over and steep. I have done this with lots of fun stuff. Pine needles, I think are delicious.

[@goatkidmom]

I would put about a tablespoon of the fresh bits in a mug. Also this might be very good to grow for cats in a pot and easy & free to get started. And once it gets root bound in its pot it would be pretty easy to harvest the bottom half for tea.

[@ZenThruAnger]

I don't consider drinking tea the same as eating it, however I am curious if this could be steamed or boiled to extract sugars to be used in cooking or as mention - making beer. Also, what nutritional value does it have anyway?

[@bourpierre198]

Happy new year 🎉. Just a quick remark: it is lignin that makes up wood and provides most of it's rigidity. It's indeed cross-linked with cellulose and hemi cellulose but these 2 can only confers a fairly limited amount of vertical support. Thanks

[@bourpierre198]

Also, ruminants feed on microbes which are fed with the grass they eat. The grass itself is just food for their microbes.

[@yugoboi332]

Here in bosnia during war time (90') we used to take nettle, boil it and eat it. I like the taste and do it still today

[@laurieanne9712]

I always learn a TON from your vids--thanks so much!

[@SherrickDuncan]

Can we just ferment grass in a jar (like sour sourkraut) the same way that cows etc do it inside of their stomachs?

[@johnclaydon604]

Best way to eat grass is simply to put it through a juicer, that way it eliminates the indigestible cellulose that cows can deal with. So the juice from the grass is very nutritious and can support one in times of food scarcity. Example potatoes and grass juice or oats a grass juice would be a healthy completely sustaining diet

[@NiteshKumar-tn8xt]

6:55 Shake off the dirt? More like return the seeds to the ground

[@doinacampean9132]

Happy New Year!! Dehydration would make it easier to grind/blend. A light roast would be interesting, too! And now I have all sorts of ideas about fermenting... :)

[@S4Nify]

Amazing video as always! Thank you! I would like to add that it is best to harvest rhizomes in late autumn or early spring when there are no leaves because then those rhizomes has best nutritional value. It stores all important stuff there for winter. And because of that dehydration is important if you want to collect and store it for few months. But if it is not used as medicine then it does not matter much.

[@meepandteep]

The production quality is amazing, your channel will definitely grow well if it keeps up!

[@BackToReality]

Thanks so much! I really appreciate that :)

[@RavenGhostwisperer]

You could also try using a wire-stripper to get rid of the roots around the nodes

[@matthewszostek1819]

I've made maple tea. I tried fresh material. I never got the color and flavor density of dried material. It seams way more potent to use dried material.

[@kayakwesty]

Great production work and video

[@MrKrovak]

Hello there, I think there was short notice in one herbalistic handbook that rhizomes should be cleaned by pulling it through thick fabric (like one from sack) - never tried it, but it could remove the small roots.

[@slaplapdog]

Great video as always. I think your presentation touches on the best way to eat couch grass, which is after another animal has digested it. I suspect rabbits would love it as well as chickens. I have both, and while I don't eat either of them, their ability to process green "waste" into fertilizer is incredibly valuable to me. The eggs and the cuddles are nice too.

[@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer]

You could try to select them for bigger seeds until you had something like wheat

[@susanstrickland6774]

Always enjoy your videos. Like how you 2 try different things in gardening. Happy New Year! Be safe. 😊👍

[@MaxMoloko]

We have cherry bowl in our new garden. Our family gasped loudly when I told them. They've been battling it fiercely for ever. I decided it wasn't worth the effort since they've not really made any significant progress in this war. So I started eating it, and funnily enough I liked it very much. And I ate it all. It comes back, but I have to have a system for not killing it off, because that is a real possibility when harvesting as much as I do.

[@ulurag]

can you ferment the grass and then eat it as a normal food?

[@keralee]

Imo, it is so much easier to let chickens destroy it by intensively over-pasturing them there, thus turn it into eggs and de-weeded, tilled fertilized soil. I am no fan of spending days on end digging up endless rhizomes. Chickens greatly enjoy doing this, whereas I do not. This labor intensive approach is only for utter desperation...you likely cannot get enough calories from it to compensate for the work involved.

[@oddstr13]

This is my plan for the spring. Getting chickens to do the initial weeding work.

[@redinthethevalley]

I cannot add any valuable information about this topic as it’s new info for me to store in the back of my mind for a letter date if I want to try something like this, but I do want to wish you and Paula a Happy New Year and a successful year ahead! Cheers,Cindy🇨🇦

[@lorettajoy7275]

Here in VA, there is kudzu, poison ivy, English ivy, and Virginia Creeper, some of which grow in similar ways to the quack grass. It would be great to come up with good uses for these, especially the kudzu! Thank you for interesting videos, i'm a new subscriber...

[@charitykopczeski5649]

The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies show kudzu's medicinal qualities. Also, KZbin has Ivy recipes making laundry detergent. 😂

[@lassievision]

I have no idea if it will work, but since this stuff is driving me crazy in my own garden, I've ordered yellow rattle seed which I'm going to plant down both sides of the main bed, to see if that will reduce the grass growth.

[@bananabread2137]

me: ok its time to sleep my brain: can a human survive on eating grass? me: *I NEED ANSWERS*

[@sebastiansebastian7377]

Here in maine we call it crabgrass

[@stuckonaslide]

in the words of hank green "DONT EAT GRASS"

[@CardsbyMaaike]

seems more work than it's worth it. I get the satisfaction of digging it up.I spent 5 months digging up ground elder as I moved and the renters before me weren't avid gardeners. at my veg patch I have bindweed, also a pesky weed and also marestail. just as bad. I wonder if the seeds can be used on bred, like poppy or wheat seeds, if you're brave enough to let couchgrass go that far

[@kickassv8]

Oooooooooooohhhhhhh. THAT grass. I thought you were discussing the OTHER grass. You know, the kind that makes brownies more fun.

[@crawfordwice]

Lame

[@kickassv8]

@@crawfordwice good thing your opinion don't count. Go buy yourself a sense of humor.

[@lightdark00]

My opinion is either boil and cook the fresh rhizomes and use the resulting stock as tea, or do what you did, but keep the nodes.

[@WilliamAshleyOnline]

grasses are generally safe around the world, so no worries on saftey, only issue with grains is infestations and such ERGOT molds etc.. fresh more or eless should be safe.

[@gac914]

That was amazing info!! Happy New Year to you both!! 😊😊

[@YouCantEatTheGrass]

No, You Can't Eat The Grass!

[@amesornish1232]

I ask 1 simple Gotham question can I go outside and eat my dam grass

[@giovannifiorentino8947]

Grat Graphics that accelerate the assimilation of concepts!

[@jeshurunfarm]

Nice video again. I find that the couch grass does give up after about 6 months of vigorous pulling every day when a new rise zone is spotted. Respect from Africa 🇿🇦

[@agitkaplan7991]

Green mint tastes awful in hot soup but dry mint tastes good so maybe the taste of tea would change depending on its dryness...

[@carlossantana4086]

Idk if you can eat the devil's grass but you sure as hell can smoke it.

[@swong005]

Yay! And it's perfect now (no typos). Happy New Year to you and the fam. Hope to see an awesome garden in 2021!

[@BackToReality]

I fixed the typo while I was at it! Thanks!! 😀

[@tarjei99]

I would fertilize the plants with Roundup. Equipment : Cup, brush, rubber gloves and an overall. A drop or two of washing up detergent to dissolve any plant wax. I could of course water the plants with vinegar, but I'm not in the mood for that.

[@goatkidmom]

Black plastic to solarize the area works well. I did that this summer and then planted fall crops in August and September. I got a fantastic Winter garden out of it.

[@keralee]

My neighbor was a big fan of Roundup-ing every last "weed." He died of cancer 2 years ago.

[@tarjei99]

@@keralee Lots of people die of cancer. Also people that have never used Roundup.

[@tarjei99]

@@goatkidmom clear plastic works a lot faster.

[@YouCantEatTheGrass]

I'm taking a firm stand on this one - no!

[@PSOLDE]

You guys are living my future lifeeeee. Plenty of land, growing food and learning about and experimenting with local product that is in your surrounding area😌

[@jalontf2]

Not sure why, but I came here to ask if you can take a handful of grass, crush it with some water in a mortar and pestle, and eat it

[@PRDreams]

Our grass has thick rhizomes. Finger thick along the river.

[@cassieoz1702]

I wouldn't try to dig out those rhizomes if you dont have great friable soil like these folks

[@RockSteadyKnows]

What if we grind it first?

[@kingspriests5361]

What about feeding the tea back to your garden for nutrients

[@artlover5798]

Can you make a tea or a broth from grass? are there toxins in it?

[@annjones3672]

Well my dears, it sounds a little bland for my tastes. I wonder if you cut and dried some of the leaves? Medicinally the same benefits I wonder? Don't really have Quack Grass here but we do have Dollar Weed that reproduces the same way.

[@madferret2045]

maybe i could eat blades of grass

[@theurzamachine]

I wonder if a small plot of land with Quackgrass could give me an endless supply of green materials for hot composting.

[@keralee]

It surely would if you put geese on it or cows... They will turn it into manure and thats as hot as it gets.

[@Thanny2000]

Did you end up selling the old dodge van?

[@BackToReality]

I don’t know we could ever part with Vanessa. She’s like part of the family now. ;)

[@Thanny2000]

@@BackToReality That is amazing! I was scared you sold her! Could we have a walk around of her?

[@Lemosa3414]

Can you safely eat the roots ?

[@az55544]

Have you considered looking at it as a basketry fiber or just for cordage?

[@neonice]

I wonder if these rhizome pieces could be pickled like bamboo shoots, maybe it makes them softer?

[@sir9integra9jr]

I haven't watched the video yet but I'm just reporting in to say that this video title is exactly the kind of thing I get on the internet every day hoping I'll find

[@tomasbakker4059]

I like this video and your yourney also, the way you describe herbal medicine is done the right way.

[@maytons]

Use a coffee grinder and your tea will be far more potent. Use a steeping ball.

[@MrMichaelStangl]

Where to start, QG is a symptom of broken soil. Disturbed soil, such as tilling increases bacterial dominance, low if any fungal, so anaerobic, low OM, as well as nematodes n Protozoa to complete nutrient cycling, high nitrates available as well as gassing off as ammonia. The plant always tells you what is going on in the soil, QG also can indicate high Aluminium, calcium is deficient or tied up, magnesium is high, as well as available P, K, Sulphur, Zinc, low Boron, bad infiltration, thou holds moisture n more, so implement low disturbance so no salt fertilizers, chemicals that includes miracle grow and such products, by improving the soil health teeming with life, nutrient cycling will increase that increases nutrient density, get the fungus back in there, look to a fish hydrolysate for a fertilizer, vermacast slurries or extracts and coat the seed before planting and apply generously to entire plant throughout the season as well as the soil, I would stay away from molasses since it may push bacterial dominance and specific genus, all n all regenerative principals should be applied, as soil becomes healthy, life returning, minerals will be liberated and more so, the amount of biology, diverse biology is available for plant consumption, rhizophagy cycle, ensure plants ability to photosynthesis to increases exudates for a return from the microbiome, as soil health increases there will be other ugly plants that may grow telling you what is happening and what to do, remember the outbreak/disease/insect are outcomes/symptoms, the soil is broken, change your mindset for the quick fix and start a paradigm shift that doing the same thing over and over is the definition of..., cheeeeers!

[@17hmr243]

maybe the fresh needs to be crushed to to "release" more goodness ?