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    How did other peoples oca crop get on last year?

    I dug mine up yesterday and I had one usable tuber from 25 plants, there were a few small ones on the very big plants, but they had all rotted due to the cold weather.

    So not a good year for me, the weather was completely wrong for the oca to work.

    I think I'm going to have to give it a miss from now on, it was a large area for me to do an experimental crop and turned out to be a big waste of time and space.

    Maybe I dug them up a little late, but the cold weather came so quick it caught me out.
    "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

    Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

  • #2
    Same here. I haven't even tried to dig them up yet, the allotments are a mud pile! However, by autumn the plants were smaller than last year because of the dry summer. Like you, I suspect I won't grow them again. I haven't got space to waste.
    Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

    www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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    • #3
      Oh no!!!!!! Ive just ordered my first tubers (only 6) after missing out for 2 years!!! Feel a bit crest fallen now!
      http://newshoots.weebly.com/

      https://www.facebook.com/pages/New-S...785438?fref=ts

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      • #4
        Dinna fash yersel! We're unlikely to get another season like the last - I hope!
        Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

        www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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        • #5
          out of six plants i had pasta bowl filled, dug them up saturday, still trying to work out how to cook them.

          now talk about p***nips, fantastic crop!!!!!

          do not think i will bother with the oca next year, but interesting to try

          Kx

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          • #6
            As I got caught out the previous year by frost, I only had one tuber to plant in a bucket last year. As soon as the cold spell started, I harvested a reasonable crop and still have some sitting on the windowsill, waiting to be eaten. I quite like the sharp flavour which will be retained provided you just heat up the tubers and keep the crisp texture.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Flummery View Post
              Dinna fash yersel! We're unlikely to get another season like the last - I hope!
              Much needed optimism!!
              http://newshoots.weebly.com/

              https://www.facebook.com/pages/New-S...785438?fref=ts

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              • #8
                I had half a pound from one plant (only got the one tuber) in November. Saved them all to plant out this spring.

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