Your knowledge of plants - wherever they are located - and their edibility is truly impressive.
I live in an apartment complex near the Cook's River whose gardens some of the residents have become much more active in, one reason being that two residents in particular are keen gardeners and the other that our prior strata chairman was a complete crook (our apartments were featured on a 4 Corners program on strata corruption) and we need to economise on expenses because things have been left in such a shambles. One of the herbs a resident wishes to grow is the perilla you mention. She has no Korean background but her mother and mother-in-law are both Korean soap opera aficionados and have an interest in things Korean. I will pass your post on to our gardening club.
Just be careful with perilla - it can turn into an invasive weed very quickly! Fortunately the seeds taste great when crushed in to a powder, they're not to hard to harvest either. Pick all the seed pods into a bucket and shake the seeds out, or if there's a lot of plants, lay them on a tarp, dry them out then bash the seeds out onto the tarp.
I hope your wife's health is better, JP.
Your knowledge of plants - wherever they are located - and their edibility is truly impressive.
I live in an apartment complex near the Cook's River whose gardens some of the residents have become much more active in, one reason being that two residents in particular are keen gardeners and the other that our prior strata chairman was a complete crook (our apartments were featured on a 4 Corners program on strata corruption) and we need to economise on expenses because things have been left in such a shambles. One of the herbs a resident wishes to grow is the perilla you mention. She has no Korean background but her mother and mother-in-law are both Korean soap opera aficionados and have an interest in things Korean. I will pass your post on to our gardening club.
Just be careful with perilla - it can turn into an invasive weed very quickly! Fortunately the seeds taste great when crushed in to a powder, they're not to hard to harvest either. Pick all the seed pods into a bucket and shake the seeds out, or if there's a lot of plants, lay them on a tarp, dry them out then bash the seeds out onto the tarp.
Thanks JP.
That's one seriously hairy plantain, and plenty of weeds I've never seen. (By the way, the whole post emailed successfully to the Protonmail account).