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Wood avens / St Benedicts Herb

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While learning about what is edible and useful in the garden, I decided to try out the hidden and most important bit of this plant. The root. Its the pale stringy roots that have the oils, and flavour apparently. They say its like cloves, and after you dig up, wash and prepare them, you’ll know why. The clove like aroma started as soon as I had patted them dry. Quite nice actually. The process now is to dry and store for use, another for the herb cupboard.

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Daisies

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After a walk and a forage of freshly opened daisies, we have a new salve on the horizon. Wasn’t expecting to find anything so a nice surprise. Was just reading yesterday how good daisies are for the skin, so I will look forward to that one being ready in a couple of weeks 😁

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Sprouting

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There’s going to be a lot of gardening posts this year. The cosmos have started sprouting, and yesterday morning I noticed the spinach poking through. It’s getting very exciting.

Turns out that in one day the spinach shot up and is now transferred to another tray. Above is first thing in the morning, below is by lunchtime 😀

Same with the cosmos, above is morning, and below afternoon.

More things are starting to pop up so will have to keep a close eye on everything to make sure I give it the best chance of making it and learn as I go.

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