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Steffi Jên 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍⚧️

Just got back from a fascinating Waterstones talk by Gaz Oakley, a chef who abandoned city life to obsessively grow vegetables and herbs on a plot near Abergavenny. He's a really inspirational speaker and it was a perfect event!
I am now keen to add Lemon Balm and Yarrow plants to my herb garden, and find space for a bucket of oyster mushrooms in the kitchen 😄

Plus, I want to learn about as a preservation method in case we ever get a glut of anything from our little garden 🪏

Any tips, Fedi friends?

@Steffi ooh awesome! I follow him on YouTube and really enjoy a lot of his content.

@alexisbushnell That's great! I admit I hadn't heard of him before seeing flyers for his talk appearing in a couple of vegan spots around Swansea 🤫 I'm certainly a fan now though!!

@Steffi be warned, lemon balm might TAKE OVER 😂

@inherentlee Lol, yes, Gaz mentioned it grows enthusiastically!!
Fortunately everything in our garden has to be in a pot or a planter so I'm fairly sure I can keep it one place🤞

@Steffi sounds like you're ready! it has taken over our front garden

@inherentlee Oh no!! I mean it smells gorgeous, but a whole garden's worth would be dizzying 😆
Whereabouts are you though? I guess you could spare a cutting?!

@Steffi Def not in wales! I am in Washington USA, upper left corner

@Steffi And yes, sometimes some gets hit by the lawnmower or we get to weeding, and it smells like a candy store 🤣

@inherentlee Your candy store comment reminds me, another herb being passed around for us all to sniff at was Cola plant which smelled just like the fizzy cola bottle sweets I loved as a kid. It had weird looking frondy kinda leaves.

@Steffi whoa, i never thought about the fact that is a plant...

@inherentlee Exactly! I don't think I'd ever thought to question before what Cola was actually made FROM.
Now, in theory anyway, I could grow my own sweets!

@inherentlee That would be a bit far to travel 😞😄

@Steffi shame, I would love to share!!