Harvesting: oca

Well, they have been in the ground for a while now. Planted in April and pretty much left to their own devices, with no molly-coddling from me what so ever and on occasions completely forgotten that they were ever planted – I remembered last week that they needed to be dug up in November !

I think i planted six or seven tubers, cant remember now. which gave me four trays full.

These are now sitting on various window sills for two/ three weeks, soaking up a little sun. Apparently you need to do this as they are very bitter when first dug up.

They have a lemony flavour and you cook these like potatoes [boiled or mashed] Wonder if you can boil them in their skins ? Need to look that up, as they look like they will be a right palaver to peel

So, i’ll let you know if i love them enough to keep some tuber’s back to grow next year. At the moment i’m not sure they were worth taking up the space for such a long time..

I wanted to try something different!