Hearty Garden Plants That Provide Household Benefits

Plants serve many purposes. Some are merely ornamental. Some are edible. Others are medicinal. If you create and implement a well developed plan for your yard and garden, then you can take advantage of all these varieties, s you see fit. Feed your family, beautify your environment and tend to the sick all from the bounty of your own landscape.

Without possessing a green thumb, you can grow a "no-fuss" garden as some beneficial plants are hearty enough that they'll basically grow like weeds (need little care) or can weather the storm (survive through the seasons), and so make ready inclusions for any level of gardener.

A few helpful plants to consider working into your blueprint are:

1. thyme, a herb which is useful in cooking and requires virtually no maintenance in a garden. 
2. agave, a cactus cousin, it can withstand disparate conditions, needing little water and loving direct sun; a the sap is a good natural sweetener, but be aware it may draw ants (for the same reason).
3. banana tree (actually a shrub) thrives with direct sun and needs only periodic water, but prefers slush, can root in almost any soil including Georgia red clay, goes dormant each Winter -- remember to cut or hack dead stalks away -- comes back each Spring bigger & better and should eventually start producing fruit; can grow quite tall and big in merely a temperate climate; can also get out of hand easily as one plant seeds producing scattered offspring nearby, so keep an eye out; but if you've got the space you can relatively quickly create your own grove, then you'll be growing your own bananas lickety-split (within seasons).
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