I'm still waiting for my oca crop. This is the second year growing oca for me and I just can't wait to see what's hiding under ground...
Last year, I started very late so I just put them in pots where I grew tomatoes and they did fairly well. Well enough to give me planting material for this year that is. I also managed to try some. I ate them mostly fresh as the are really refreshing and crunchy...
This year, I planted them all over the garden (in between tomatoes) and in a special bed they shared with yacon. Those did great as far as growth goes. Some had stems that reached over 1,2m! I hope frost won't come in all it's might soon. We did have a hard enough frost to kill of the yacon tops but I did cover the oca then and it remained covered since...
This is what it looked like in the bed with yacons (on the left):
This is the longest plant, the stems are very thick, I hope this plant will give me huge ocas:
Here they are covered, waiting for the tuberization:
And this is a preview of things to come
