manaji

When the bush potato flower turns to cotton and fly in the air like cobwebs, you know it's time to dig for the manaji. It's a lot of hard work digging up a bush potato, but worth the effort as they are delicious when cooked in hot coals out in the bush. The plant is a trailing vine with heart-shaped leaves and purple flowers. You look for a crack in the ground to know if the tuber is big enough to dig for. If you see the crack, start digging. A crow bar is a useful tool as the soil is so hard, but also because if you thump the ground and hear a hallow sound, that is where the tuber will be. Brush off the dirt and bury the bush potato in the coals of the fire until you smell that it's cooked (you can wrap it in foil if you don't like the charcoal).