Good day everyone. Zak Ludick here from a sunny but windy Cape Town, South Africa. In the garden, I have various little veggies and herbs doing their thing. And then the Parslane began to grow!
At first, I weeded them out, but then I was informed that they are actually a very nutritious indigenous food in South Africa by .
So I left them alone and started watering them.
I decided I wanted to try 's chutney recipe and for that I would need to harvest some of the parslane. I decided to go for the parslane growing between the paving stones of the pathways first...
There is so much of it, just in the pathways alone!
When collecting them in a container, you end up with a lot of seeds in the container. The slightest movement and the plant shoots out seeds all over the place!
Look at that large container filled up and I have only cleared a bit of the pathway. I ended up filling the container twice and had not yet gone into the veggie beds where they grow alongside my basil and green pepper plants!
So and I set to work. Picking off all the leaves and casting the stalks aside. It took quite a while!
With all of this processed...
We now have this mass of parslane!
I have not made the chutney yet, but we have put some of this into our food already as we are cooking. Any time you would need a green leafy vegetable, you can use the parslane instead!
Stay tuned for the chutney!