Property News · August 25, 2023

How a purple patch in your garden can also brighten up your dinner plate


From iridescent shiso for sprinkling on ramen to deepest mauve carrots, violet crops appeal to kids, tooI’m not the kind of grower who has a typical origin story. I didn’t learn to sow seeds or harvest fruit at the feet of a parent or grandparent. But I think I can pinpoint the exact moment I knew I was destined to lead a life dictated by the needs of the crops I would grow.I was sitting eight storeys above the ground, on the soil of Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm in New York, holding the finest carrot I’d ever met. It was orange through the core but the deepest, richest purple around the outside. It was sweet, crunchy, a delight to behold – and, if I recall the variety correctly, called ‘Purple Haze’. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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