I harvested Ulluco and Oca tubers which I grow on indoors from the first frost to the end of the year!This is probably the last time I grow […]
Tubers / Uncategorized
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Happy New Edimental Year
Wishing all my friends, family and all the amazing folk I’ve met live and online this year a very happy green year in which things WILL begin to […]
Root crops / Tubers
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Forcing Andean root crops for winter greens
I was potting up ocas and ullucos outside this afternoon (to force for winter greens) and there was a sudden hail storm . The pots are brought inside […]
Root crops / Tubers
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End of the year Andes in Malvik tuber harvest
As the psychedelic (colour not effect) Andean tubers Oca (Oxalis tuberosa), Ulluco (Ullucus tuberosus) and Achira (Canna edulis) benefit from a longer season than I can give them […]
Oca / Root crops
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Indoors Oca plantation
I’m lucky that I have plenty of space in the house..so this unheated room is from now until Xmas harvest an indoor Andean root crop plantation – the […]
Anredera cordifolia / Food / Root crops / Vegetarian
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3 Basellaceae for Xmas dinner
For Xmas dinner 2007, I made nut roast with roast vegetables including two members of the Basellaceae family (known as the Madeira vine family). It contains the following […]
Oca / Root crops / Tubers
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Oca and Ulluco safely inside!
With an even heavier frost threatened, I moved all my Ocas and Ullucos inside….but, until I clear space (seeds drying everywhere) they are blocking the entrance to my […]
Climbers
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Malabar spinach in my bedroom….
I have Malabar spinach (also known as Ceylon spinach or just Basella), a vigorous climbing spinach which isn’t hardy outside here, but grows very well and sets seed […]
Tubers
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Wild Ulluco
Ulluco is a colourful root vegetable from the Andes. The tubers are quite small….wild Ulluco tubers (Ullucus tuberosus) which I received today (just for fun!) are even smaller […]