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Oca!
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DD.
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Reply #15 on:
February 24, 2012, 19:17 »
You're welcome, I take no responsibility for the quality, but they do say some are sprouting, (just like the O/P's), so they can't be dead!
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Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?
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Reply #16 on:
February 24, 2012, 20:27 »
Grown these now for a couple of years and you get a good return per tuber.
Baked in foil with butter, added to a stir fry in thin discs, plain boiled (need to decide if you want crisp still or floury as it affects cooking time)
Really worthwhile crop imho
Pretty foliage and flowers too and apart from the occasonal slug hole, pest/disease free
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Gandan57
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Reply #17 on:
March 03, 2012, 10:53 »
Here they are, the little beauties.
Shall have to get busy tomorrow potting up the sprouting ones.
I did bid on more from another supplier and I`m still the highest bidder, so there may be more on the way.
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Reply #18 on:
March 03, 2012, 15:49 »
I finally found a Canadian source and have ordered 2 tubers to start. Will see if I like them before ordering more.
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DD.
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Reply #19 on:
March 03, 2012, 16:30 »
I've got two as well, from a well known forum member that I did a seed swap with.
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Yorkie
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Reply #20 on:
March 03, 2012, 17:11 »
Me too
So, remind me how they should best be grown?
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Reply #21 on:
March 03, 2012, 17:40 »
I have decided not to grow these. The Real Seeds site says that the tubers start to form in short days, usually mid November, so not recommended if you are likely to have an early frost.
I believe they are grown just like new potatoes.
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Reply #22 on:
March 03, 2012, 18:36 »
Quote from: Yorkie on March 03, 2012, 17:11
Me too
So, remind me how they should best be grown?
I start mine off in small pots of compost and plant them out once frosts are over. No feeding, just soil in good heart
The leaves are very pretty and you get small yellow flowers later in the summer too.
The foliage is cut down agan by frost around November, but the tubers are fine in the ground until wanted and even seem to carry on growing.
I dug the last of mine up today
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AnneB
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Reply #23 on:
March 03, 2012, 18:38 »
Worth a try then..
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sunshineband
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Reply #24 on:
March 03, 2012, 18:40 »
Quote from: AnneB on March 03, 2012, 18:38
Worth a try then..
I've grown them now for a while and like them a lot
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Kleftiwallah
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Reply #25 on:
March 03, 2012, 18:41 »
They look a bit fiddly to peel, do you peel 'em ? Cheers, Tony.
Just re-read Aunt Sally's comment on page 1. :blink: Cheers, Tony.
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Reply #26 on:
March 03, 2012, 18:43 »
No, you don't need to peel them at all
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Yorkie
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Reply #27 on:
March 03, 2012, 19:58 »
Thanks Sunny, something else to try to sow / pot tomorrow
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maxine
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Reply #28 on:
April 26, 2012, 10:25 »
Iv just planted my firs Oca tubers & Im very excited about them (sad I know).
Im getting a little sick of the never ending battle against slugs & butterflys attacking my caulis cabbage etc so this year Im trying to grow some different things.
I agree the tubers were VERY expensive but I suppose if these 6 I have produce plenty of young I will hopefully be able to store them for next year!
Just hope I like eating them!!!
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asd1
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Reply #29 on:
April 26, 2012, 10:30 »
I got the first leaf on mine today was starting to worry they wouldn't grow
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