“Nasturtium flowers have a peppery kick best suited to salads”
July has always been a favourite month because everything is full and bountiful. We can walk through our gardens, picking crops and eating them without a care in the world.
In my main garden, flowers are in full bloom and, with my ‘hassle-free food’ hat on, it’s worth discussing the edible flowers among them because they’re more useful than they might seem. There was a time when I considered eating flowers a bit of a novelty. Now, though, I see flowers as an entirely new category of hassle-free harvests in the same way herbs sit alongside vegetables and fruit.
Flowers bring
