As someone who loves cooking Japanese food it's sad that I struggle so much to find shiso and mitsuba. Probably if I ventured into Vancouver or Richmond it would be easier, but the Asian shops here are not super well-stocked.
After having such amazing success with leca and my monsteras and pothos I'm thinking maybe I can just grow my own? I don't need huge amounts, so a smol little pot would likely do just fine.
Ordered some seeds off a gent on Salt Spring Island!
@MsHearthWitch Shiso is an awesome plant. The kind I had, grew beautiful dark red leaves and it has little flowers at the end of the season. It pretty much looks after itself. I intended it to be a small clump, it ended up a small bush. Made some shiso juice which was lovely with fizzy water.
@napalousa Yeah I've heard it's not too difficult to grow, and a few folks on reddit have mentioned that it grows alright in hydroponics which makes me think it'd do okay in leca.
@PeachMcD Nice, yeah I hear it would self-seed reliably if I wanted to grow it outside. I'm not sure it will as much in leca indoors, but my hope is to harvest seeds to replant!
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