This list contains both vegetables and herbs, but it can be tricky to find information on magical uses of common garden veggies so I’m publishing this here to share with everyone. This is a work in progress – I’ll add more info as I come across it.
Seed Choices:
Beets – sending messages to the dead, communicating with chtonic deities, dealings with the Underworld, encouraging love between two people, building courage
Peas – reaching new spiritual heights, raising yourself out of a bad situation, opening the door to new opportunities
Beans – contacting your ancestors, decision making, health
Tomatoes – lust and attraction, money and wealth magic, protection
Dill – wealth and prosperity, attraction and lust, diffusing anger or difficult situations, protecting children
Chives – attracting happiness, finding new opportunities, following your dreams
Calendula – health, breaking hexes and control, banishing negativity and parasitic entities
Chamomile – purification, good luck, health (difficult to grow)
Sunflower – protection, courage, strength and a general major energy boost
Basil – Love, protection, soothing painful emotions and money (difficult to grow)
Cucumber – fertility
Lettuce – powerful wealth attractant, protection, psychic improvement
Carrots – fertility, discovering hidden truths
Catnip – health, joy, acceptance of problems, relief of a stressful situation (difficult to grow)
Cilantro – love and lust, attraction
Dandelion – sacred to Hecate, contact with the dead or underworld, communication with spirits
Echinacea – connection to the spirit world, health
Horehound – strong protection, purification and exorcism
Mint – attract money, purify and cleanse
Onion – protection, exorcism, spiritual and physical health
Parsley – protection, help starting down a new path
Poppy – Luck, starting a new business or life path
Radish – stimulating new opportunities and insights, protection against hexes
This list is wonderful–thank you for sharing your information. I’m planning my garden for this year and the information will come in handy!
Such a very useful list. I never knew beets had any spiritual qualities at all!
Thank you!
Thanks for this info – it sort of made me giggle. I hate radishs, but we eat lots of beans in my house.
But now that I know this when I add one of these ingredients to my cooking I talk to it and let it knows what I need. In a way I’m teaching this to my kids since they hear me say these things. Hmm maybe I should quiz them.
Wait you could write a book – instead of the language of flowers it can be the language of vegis
hi, it’s interesting to read all of that, i am a vege grower and i particularly find chives leap out as a very happy lifeform, more than any other they make their nature known- a sunny disposition. Chives seem to relish life and always keep on battling on despite disturbances and appear to thrive on being broken apart to start anew so i’m glad to know that another has noticed a similar quality in them.