Deer and Rodent Resistant🦌🐇🐁
Attracts: Bees, butterflies, and other beneficial pollinators
Repels: Mosquitoes and ticks

Note: Proper care keeps plants resilient and healthy, preventing diseases and pests. This list details the potential threats, specific diseases and pests vary depending on environmental climate.
Diseases:
◦ Leaf Spot: Fungal infection that appears as small brown specks that can grow into larger lesions. These lesions are sometimes surrounded by yellow rings.
◦ Powdery Mildew: Disease caused by a fungus due to overwatering or overcrowding, making the plant vulnerable to other pests and diseases
◦ Root Rot: Disease that causes root system to deteriorate. Occurs when plant roots have constantly excessive or too much standing water around them. Common with indoor plants due to overwatering.
 ◦ Rust: This fungal disease is caused by more than 7,000 species of fungi. It affects the aerial parts of plants, most commonly the leaves, plus the stems, flowers, and fruit. Each type or plant rust has its own distinctive symptoms, such as bright red, orange, yellow, or brown spots on the leaves. As spores form, the spots turn reddish-orange and eventually black.
Pests:
◦ Aphids: Small, soft-bodied sucking insects which pierce plant tissues and draw out the juices.
◦ Spider mites: hey feed by bruising plant cells with their small, whiplike mouthparts and ingesting the sap. Spider mites produce a fine silk webbing, often found at leaf nodes or the undersides of leaves, which may kill plants or cause serious stress to them.

Thujone is a chemical compound found in specific herbs and is toxic in high amounts. Pregnant, breastfeeding mothers, and young children should avoid consuming thujone. Consuming excessive thujone may cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, dizziness, seizures, damage to the liver and nervous system, coma, or death. Thujone toxicity is higher with concentrated forms like teas, extracts, and oils. Thujone consumed from common culinary use of these herbs now and then is considered safe for consumption.
High Thujone Content: Wormwood (do not eat) and Mugwort
Moderate Thujone Content: Holy Basil, Sage, Yarrow
Low Thujone Content: Thai Basil, Sweet Basil, Thyme, and Oregano
Animal Toxicity: Toxic to dogs, cats, and horses.
ASPCA Website – Toxic and Non-Toxic Plants “Yarrow”
People sensitive to the Asteraceae/Compositae family may have an allergic reaction.
Some individuals may have a sensitivity to yarrow, consult a healthcare professional first and proceed at own risk.
WebMD Website – Yarrow “Interactions”

❗Never ingest essential oils, instead use organic fresh or dried herbs.
Essential Oil: Click Here for Precautions, Instructions, and Dilution Ratios
Use: Yarrow has a long history of medicinal use in various cultures, however scientific evidence for its effectiveness is limited. Excessive consumption of yarrow tea may be harmful.
◦ Flowers: The most medicinal part of the plant. May be used sparingly for salad, soup, stew, garnishes, flavored salt, and herbal tea. Externally applied in the form of herbal oil, poultice, salve, cream, or therapeutic tea soak.
◦ Leaves: Not as potent as the flowers, the leaves may be used sparingly for salad, soup, stew, garnishes, flavored salt, and herbal tea. Externally applied in the form of herbal oil, poultice, salve, cream, or therapeutic tea soak.
Benefits: Antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory (reduces internal and external swelling), antihypertensive (lowers blood pressure), astringent, prevents infection, relieves spasmodic gastrointestinal ulcers, stomach ache, menstrual cramps, urinary tract infection, diarrhea, dysentery, IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) asthma, fever, colds (flu or influenza). External application helps skin conditions (cuts, insect bites, minor injuries, dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, open sores, burns), toothaches, stops bleeding, and improves wound recovery rate.
Dosing: ⅛ teaspoon maximum dose every other day for adults. Use sparingly and occasionally, excessive consumption of yarrow may be harmful.
Click Here for How To Harvest, Dry, and Properly Store Herbs and Seeds
Harvest: Never harvest more than 20% of a plant’s leaves or roots!
◦ Flowers: Harvest at full bloom from April to October.
◦ Leaves: For a mild flavor, harvest in Early Spring prior to flowering or in Late Fall after the flowers have subsided. For the most potent medicinal properties, harvest in the Mid-Summer to Early Fall.
◦ Seeds: Harvest the dry, brown, crunchy flowers from Late Summer to Fall. Follow harvesting techniques in the link above to extract and properly store the seeds.

The flowering stage makes leaves bitter.
Aroma: Flowers smell of honey; Leaves smell of a sweet, herbaceous oregano when crushed
Flavor: Herbaceous, sweet, and bitter
Culinary Combinations: Yarrow compliments herbs and spices (sweet basil, holy basil, oregano, bay, parsley, thyme, sage, coriander, cumin, curry, dill, ginger, chamomile, goldenseal, elderberry, and lavender), quinoa, whole wheat enriched pasta, wild rice, bean sprouts, quinoa, whole wheat enriched pasta, wild rice, bean sprouts, beans (sugar snap peas, green beans, chickpeas [garbanzos], black, pinto), legumes (lentils, mung beans), tofu, tempeh, mushrooms, nuts (roasted cashews, almonds, walnuts, pecans, and pine nuts), vegetables (arugula, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, Winter squash [pumpkin, butternut squash, acorn squash], Summer squash (zucchini, straightneck, and crookneck), sweet potato, eggplant, garlic, lemongrass, bell pepper, carrot, asparagus, brussels sprouts, radish, tomato, and cucumber), and fruits (avocado, cranberries, apple, apricot, pear, citrus, and figs)
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According to Greek mythology, Achilles used yarrow to treat his soldiers’ wounds during the Trojan War in 1200 BC after learning its medicinal properties from the centaur Chiron. Yarrow was also used by soldiers in the American Civil War and World War I to treat wounds and prevent infection.

3 to 5+ years longevity for life expectancy.