How do you care for a Huacatay plant?

Table of Contents:

1. How do you care for a Huacatay plant?
2. How do you harvest Huacatay?
3. What is black mint paste used for?
4. Are there deserts in Peru?

How do you care for a Huacatay plant?

Water regularly until germination. This plant is resistent to deer, groundhogs, and insect pests, so can be grown as a perimeter plant outside of your fences. It will grow much taller with irrigation, but does great without irrigation as well.

How do you harvest Huacatay?

It is harvested by hand being careful to cut the plant around ten centimeters from the base, to allow for regrowth. The leaves are traditionally used in teas or as a spice: after harvesting by hand the leaves are gathered in bundles held together by a drier part of the plant in order to be dried.

What is black mint paste used for?

Black Peruvian mint with its very aromatic leaves are ground into a paste and used to flavor many Peruvian Andean dishes. Huacatay paste is used in the popular Peruvian potato dish called Ocopa....Subscribe to the Share Market® Newsletter.

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Are there deserts in Peru?

Peruvian Coastal Desert, Peru There is a continuous desert along South America's Pacific coast. This desert stretches from the Sechura Desert in Northern Peru to the Atacama Desert in Chile. ... With the impressive Andes Mountains as its neighbor, many travelers often overlook Peru's coastal desert.