Film
The Calendula Summer
Picking calendula every other morning for a season, drying the heads, and starting the year's jar of oil.
A summer of calendula in eleven minutes: sowing in spring, the first flowers in June, picking every other morning through July, drying the sticky heads on screens, and filling the jar of oil that will become this year's salve.
The salve itself gets made in autumn — the recipe is here.
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If you only grow one plant for the apothecary, grow this one. The more you pick, the more it flowers…