We are about to face the same situation as we head into our rainy season - the signs are already starting after a heavy downpour in March. There is nothing nicer than new potatoes, butter and mint. And fresh peas. Those purple ones look divine. Here in SA they are colouring a gin with their flowers. Makes me think I should look for some seeds - such fun to have flowers and different colours on our plates. After all, contrary to what The Husband thinks, we do eat with our eyes!
I hope that you get a good rainy season. Drought is not good at all!!
And I haven't eaten potatoes with mint - but today will be the day LOL
I agree, the eye is an important part in enjoying a meal. but I also like the flavor of the flowers. Like the borage flowers have a slight hint of cucumber, the radish flowers have a mild radish taste and so on.
I hope that you get a good rainy season. Drought is not good at all!!
From your keyboard to God's ears! We have just come through a three-year drought - you might have seen my frequent references to dust and even one which explains why we will always have a dustbowl instead of grass outside our kitchen door!
The flavour of flowers - you are so right. It amazes me how many people pick them out! One wouldn't put them in a salad if they weren't edible, would one? I've never had radish flowers - must give them a go. I love borage - also a great companion plant with sweet basil.
And as for the new potatoes with mint: that's how I grew up eating them - and with fresh, chopped parsley. We so rarely get them now, and when I do have them - like that, I'm transported back to my childhood table.
Bon appetite!
We have pretty much the same climate here and I followed what was going on- including that they wanted to tap into the aquifer - which will take forever (way longer than our lifetime) to replenish.
Permaculture is needed for sure...
Actually, we are about 200km/2 hours drive from Cape Town so we were not facing day zero. Our village is in a rain shadow but the mountains bless us with water. That said, were are, anyway, much drier than Cape Town - semi-Karoo and water conservation should have been be implemented sooner. We still have some restrictions. Too many people in the village have sunk/sinking boreholes on plots that are really relatively small. It's going to have an impact. Small plots: permaculture is not very doable. That said, the principles do apply.
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Well, actually, even on a small plot all the water can be harvested - from roofs and such. If not in tanks, at least in the soil. And all water can be used twice. First in the house, then on the plants. Compost toilets eliminate a lot of water usage, growing food in closed systems like aquaponics or grow towers use very little water and the food is not being shipped, packaged and all of that...
It is surprising what all can be done 😄
I get you. We are actually quite urban. Erfs are 1000 sq m and quite regulated. Conservative. We compost and harvest what we can. Dew is a rarity when we need it most. All of that said, we wouldn't change things. Have a looooooong to do list! Lol
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