July ushers in a spectacular offering from nature, with colorful blooms, enchanting fragrances, and wild plants at their zenith. This is the month when countless plants reveal their fullest potential, painting the landscape with vibrancy and life. Beyond the beauty of delicate flowers, it’s also the perfect time to gather the first seeds, which can be wonderful additions to your summer kitchen or a natural boost for your home remedies. In this article, we’ll guide you through the edible wild plants that you can harvest during July, share essential tips for foraging safely and responsibly, and provide practical ways to incorporate them into your daily routine. If you’re craving even more ideas and insights, be sure to explore the summer edition of our wild herbs magazine for a deeper dive into the richness of the season.
Edible leaves for wild herb salad
In July, wild grasses regrow particularly quickly in wild meadows. If you mow, you can immediately see new growth. Plantain leaves, daisies or Rothklee they are sprouting very abundantly at the moment. Also Dostwild fennel, mugwort or Vogelmiere they are growing very vigorously at the moment. You can currently choose what you want to eat from a wide variety of herbs. Some plants are already flowering or producing seeds, but the young plants are still growing. From July onwards it is preferable to collect the young leaves, the younger they are the more delicate. This applies to all edible wild plants if you want to use them in salads.
Wild plant flowers
In the month of July you can find particularly numerous flowers, such as mallow flowers (Malva sylvestris). It is a medicinal plant that is not only incredibly beautiful, but is also highly prized in natural medicine for its mucilage. It is blooming in different colors right now. They can be found in pink, purple, blue and red, usually on roadsides, paths or in fields. The leaves are mainly used in cooking. The flowers are also edible. For example, you can add the raw leaves and flowers to salts or smoothies. However, mallow is mainly used as a medicinal herb. Here you can make a cold extract so that the ingredients are not destroyed. Hot infusion is also possible, but with small losses in terms of ingredients. Learn more about using Malvenblütenwhich we are currently drying for the winter, you can see in the article “Mallow – healing power of flowers for dry cough – mallow tea«Laws.
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In summer if you want you can collect different plants every day. We would like to present to you the summer edition of our Kräuterkeller magazine (available here) give tips on how to use wild herbs in summer. The magazine is available in paper and digital versions. You can buy it, like our other books and the seasonal calendar, in our herbalist’s shop
First seeds to harvest
Now in July there are the first seeds that you can collect. These include the very first nettle seeds. They are usually still slightly green in July. But even at this stage you can eat them. More information on the stages of maturation of nettle can be found in the article “How to recognize ripe nettle seeds?«To read it. The first seeds of plantain plantain are already ripe. How to do it Use plantain seeds you can, find out Here. And those too The garlic mustard now has seeds trained. Small black seeds have ripened into small pods. You can figure out how to process them Here laws.
Find out what you can harvest in July: our seasonal wild herb calendar
Our Seasonal calendar of wild herbs (available here) shows you at a glance which wild plants you can collect each month: arranged clearly, practically and close to nature. The large calendar in DINA3 format can be reused every year. Also a popular gift for anyone who wants to connect with nature and rediscover ancient knowledge! Available exclusively in our shop at www.die-moderne-Kräuterhexe.d
Preserving wild herbs
Now in the summer it is important to think about the winter and work the wild plants which are particularly abundant at this time. Aromatic but also wild herbs can be transformed into herbal salt. But this is only one way to preserve wild herbs. You can currently dry many plants, seal them tightly, and store them in a dark, cool place until you need them for home remedies in the fall or winter. You can find out what you need to pay attention to and which method works with which wild herbs in our book “Preserving wild herbs“(available here) Light.
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Do you sometimes lose track of what can be found in nature? It was once like this for us too. We kept lists and placed crosses to document when it was possible to find the plant. It wasn’t very clear and not entirely clear. But our lists were not in vain. We got ours from them Seasonal calendar of wild herbs (available here) developed. Because what does not exist is simply developed by us. We wanted to make an overview of this type available to everyone, which is based on years of observations and can therefore be used for years. The wild plants that are particularly widespread in a given month are listed above. Other herbs, also present in abundance, are represented a little smaller in the lower part. The calendar is a perpetual calendar because it has no calendar and therefore can be used every year. It is also available in our Herbal Witch online store find
It is very important to spend a lot of time in nature, because nature is a place of retreat and learning at the same time. To support you in collecting and excite your children about the theme of wild herbs and the love of nature, we have published a discovery book: “Ben & Mara discover the world of wild herbs“(available here). Here children learn the importance of wild herbs and the cycle of nature. Check out our discovery sets and other products designed by us in our online herb witch shop A. The plantain cough syrup recipe is also included Children’s book contain. You can imitate him easily. Here it is Explorer Series.
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