She grows traditional vegetables like black nightshade popularly referred to as managu or sucha, amaranths (terere) and spider plant (saga/saget). READ MORE Traditional mbogas ‘overthrow’ exoticsWangui also grows other indigenous vegetables such as kansera, which resembles Sukuma wiki, cowpeas leaves known as Kunde and pumpkin leaves. Besides being on high demand, traditional vegetables take a relatively short period of time to mature for harvest after planting. “Traditional vegetables are very lucrative. Traditional vegetables are rarely affected by diseases, pests being the only challenge Wangui grapples with.

Source: Standard Digital June 14, 2022 11:01 UTC