Greetings from New Zealand! I often pop a handful into casseroles when I am cooking them in the winter - they hold their shape well and taste delicious.
Hi, great idea, I've been doing the same since this harvest. Really lovely in the big pot of veggie soup I made last week 😋 What area of NZ are you in ? I lived in Raglan for 7 years before this chapter of my life 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife Good idea - I never thought about soups. I am in Porirua, Wellington. I have a small garden but the weather has been terrible so far this summer so it might be a late summer. Love Raglan its a slower pace of life there.
I've bought a few oca to try, looking at crops which may be better in our rapidly changing climate. I love the idea of also growing beans in the same piece of soil.
You guy's deserve your own show!!! So talented and so interesting and I'm not even a gardener. You guy's are just so laid back but make it look so easy. Happy new 2025 to you all I feel 2025 will be great for you!! Xx 😁🐕 x
I plant good-sized oca plants that started indoors. In two weeks or so, I have great ground cover. My yield this year was brilliant! The size of them were huge. The ones in pots were planted late but not a bad harvest 💚
I’d love to give Oca a go. I’ve never tasted it before. Thanks for the inspiration. 14:35 this is a brilliant idea. I hope you’re both doing well. Much peace and love to you ❤
I really like the taste too ... Kinda of cross between potato and baked beans, with a hint of lemon ... sounds stange i guess, but I love it ... has to be tried sometime for sure, even if just for the novality 💚✌️🌿
Wash them and add to salad, zingy, add to stir fries, boil for 10 min max, roast with oil., roast for 15 mins then add maple syrup! Also they are nitrogen fixing and don't form the tubers till after the first frost so some people try to dig them too soon. Delicious. They do contain oxalic acid so not good for people with kidney problems. Never been able to find out how they eat them in the Andies.
That makes sense re rodents and oca. A couple of years back, I left my harvest of oca (in Tasmania Australia) outside overnight. Next morning they had all disappeared! I figured rats might be the culprits, couldn’t think of anything else. It was a really good harvest too, of course
Thanks for the video! The biggest reason I loved the oca this year, was that everything else got eaten by the slugs, even garlic and the leaves of a cherry tree. I tried planting the saved seed of my runner beans a few times, even als tall indoor grown plants, and the slugs destroyed them. The oca did really well. I did get some bigger tubers than you did, but also a lot of small ones. In the end I felt the plants with bigger tubers just produced fewer, so not sure it matters that much in total yield. However, the bigger ones are nicer to eat and store. In my case size seemed mostly variety dependend, perhaps with some bigger tubers next to the wood-chip path (more space or different soil biology?). I find the small ones can shrivel up a bit in the oven, so I pan-fry them with some garlic. Do you have any advice on getting the runner beans to survive the slug attacks in a densely planted bed like yours and mine?
Hi, so glad that Oca grew well for you, and thats great to know about the slugs not being interested. I do find starting beans in trays and planting out once bigger defo helps against slugs, we didn't actually losse any bean here tos slugs tbh, I did loose my whole first sowing of peas though, that was planted out earlier, so maybe planting out a little later in the season could help too. Whilst we have had an big increase in slugs last season, I feel we have a good balance of preditor wildlife also here (frogs, toads and birds) so other than the peas and my first early sowing of carrots (which was unusal), they haven't caused any more issues than normal. Thanks for watching & messaging 💚✌️🌿
I'm so excited as I decided last year that I'm going to grow them this season .So very interesting to hear about it. Also would love to know of any recipes x
I grew oca for a few years but never managed to get a satisfactory harvest of roots. The colour intensity of the crop when harvested are absolutely stunning, but to me the taste and volume of crop doesn't justify growing it. Certainly not in my limited space. I did find that the oca foliage was the most useful part of the plant to me, useful in salads etc., but as mentioned elsewhere the oxalic acid content does need to be watched! I'll focus on yacon and jerusalem artichokes at this time of year.....and mashua, if i can ever source some tubers!
I'm growing oca for the first time this year, so it is great to learn from your experience, even though my conditions are quite different to yours. Southern hemisphere midsummer and 35 degrees. My oca patch is on a shady slope in my food forest. So far it coping OK with the heat, but I guess I will have to see how what it produces come winter. I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile burying some of the stems to get more tubers?
I've been growing oca for the last few years with varying levels of success. I love the taste in salads and stews but they are so fiddly to clean i just scrub with a brush. Anyone got any other methods of cleaning?
I use a stiff pot brush on the too, my method is to rinse then put in a colander and brush in circles over all of them whilst running water too ... I don;t mind a little bit of soil deep in the cracks going in the stews etc, where I know our soils here ... extra nutrients 😁
A crop I’ll try, but like you I’d like know how to cook them other than roasting. I know another TH-camr who uses these as an alternative to radishes for winter salads & he said you can eat the leaves in a small amount in salads. Me - not too sure, but I’ll give them a go in my perennial bed. However, they just look like oversized Chinese Artichokes that I once saw on Victorian Kitchen Garden.
The brilliant thing is though Cheryl is that you are keen to learn 🙌 and your immerse yourself in it right now, which in my eyes is one of the best ways ... along with then actually doing 💚✌️🌿
@ I’d so love to come see your place sometime, when things are growing and ticking over. It would be amazing and awesome. But don’t know if possible as I’m in southeast Kent, near Dover area. Long way to get to you lol but closer then many I follow in the USA! Lil
@ do you know where to get things like the yacon and that to start with? As this year I was lucky at the end of season to find. 1 plant in Homebase for sweet potato. And got 1kg off it. Did well I think as no idea how to grow it.
We are trying to entice a couple of local wld ones in more ... unfortunately Muphy isn't too fond and will happily see them off, we are starting to put food out in areas he doesn;t go so much in hope 🤞
Greetings from New Zealand! I often pop a handful into casseroles when I am cooking them in the winter - they hold their shape well and taste delicious.
Hi, great idea, I've been doing the same since this harvest. Really lovely in the big pot of veggie soup I made last week 😋 What area of NZ are you in ? I lived in Raglan for 7 years before this chapter of my life 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife Good idea - I never thought about soups. I am in Porirua, Wellington. I have a small garden but the weather has been terrible so far this summer so it might be a late summer. Love Raglan its a slower pace of life there.
I've bought a few oca to try, looking at crops which may be better in our rapidly changing climate. I love the idea of also growing beans in the same piece of soil.
Glad you enjoyed this vid Stephen - Happy Oca growing for the season ahead 🙌 Appreciate you watching & commmenting 💚✌️🌿
You guy's deserve your own show!!! So talented and so interesting and I'm not even a gardener.
You guy's are just so laid back but make it look so easy.
Happy new 2025 to you all I feel 2025 will be great for you!!
Xx 😁🐕 x
Thanks Greg, thats sure kind of you. Happy new year to you, Julie & Ralphy too - Much love 💚✌️🌿
I plant good-sized oca plants that started indoors. In two weeks or so, I have great ground cover. My yield this year was brilliant! The size of them were huge. The ones in pots were planted late but not a bad harvest 💚
Thats great to know Joan, Hopefully I will have the same results starting them inside this year then 🤞💚✌️
I’d love to give Oca a go. I’ve never tasted it before. Thanks for the inspiration. 14:35 this is a brilliant idea. I hope you’re both doing well. Much peace and love to you ❤
I really like the taste too ... Kinda of cross between potato and baked beans, with a hint of lemon ... sounds stange i guess, but I love it ... has to be tried sometime for sure, even if just for the novality 💚✌️🌿
@ when I get my garden up and running I will grow some for sure 👌
Grow every day in every way!
Great moto - LOVE it 💚✌️🌿
Wash them and add to salad, zingy, add to stir fries, boil for 10 min max, roast with oil., roast for 15 mins then add maple syrup! Also they are nitrogen fixing and don't form the tubers till after the first frost so some people try to dig them too soon. Delicious. They do contain oxalic acid so not good for people with kidney problems. Never been able to find out how they eat them in the Andies.
This is great info - thank you so much for sharing - I didnt know they were notrogen fixer too - AMAZING 🙌 Appreciate you watching & commenting 💚✌️🌿
If you put them out in the sun for a week or so after harvest, it reduces the oxalic acid in the skin to almost nothing and sweetens them.
That makes sense re rodents and oca. A couple of years back, I left my harvest of oca (in Tasmania Australia) outside overnight. Next morning they had all disappeared! I figured rats might be the culprits, couldn’t think of anything else. It was a really good harvest too, of course
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Thanks for the video! The biggest reason I loved the oca this year, was that everything else got eaten by the slugs, even garlic and the leaves of a cherry tree. I tried planting the saved seed of my runner beans a few times, even als tall indoor grown plants, and the slugs destroyed them. The oca did really well. I did get some bigger tubers than you did, but also a lot of small ones. In the end I felt the plants with bigger tubers just produced fewer, so not sure it matters that much in total yield. However, the bigger ones are nicer to eat and store. In my case size seemed mostly variety dependend, perhaps with some bigger tubers next to the wood-chip path (more space or different soil biology?). I find the small ones can shrivel up a bit in the oven, so I pan-fry them with some garlic. Do you have any advice on getting the runner beans to survive the slug attacks in a densely planted bed like yours and mine?
Hi, so glad that Oca grew well for you, and thats great to know about the slugs not being interested. I do find starting beans in trays and planting out once bigger defo helps against slugs, we didn't actually losse any bean here tos slugs tbh, I did loose my whole first sowing of peas though, that was planted out earlier, so maybe planting out a little later in the season could help too. Whilst we have had an big increase in slugs last season, I feel we have a good balance of preditor wildlife also here (frogs, toads and birds) so other than the peas and my first early sowing of carrots (which was unusal), they haven't caused any more issues than normal. Thanks for watching & messaging 💚✌️🌿
I'm so excited as I decided last year that I'm going to grow them this season .So very interesting to hear about it. Also would love to know of any recipes x
Happy growing Chrissie - glad this vid was helpful 💚✌️🌿
I grew oca for a few years but never managed to get a satisfactory harvest of roots. The colour intensity of the crop when harvested are absolutely stunning, but to me the taste and volume of crop doesn't justify growing it. Certainly not in my limited space. I did find that the oca foliage was the most useful part of the plant to me, useful in salads etc., but as mentioned elsewhere the oxalic acid content does need to be watched!
I'll focus on yacon and jerusalem artichokes at this time of year.....and mashua, if i can ever source some tubers!
Greetings from Belgium, zone 8b i think ;-) I might give okra a try...
Great to have you with us 💚✌️🌿
I'm growing oca for the first time this year, so it is great to learn from your experience, even though my conditions are quite different to yours. Southern hemisphere midsummer and 35 degrees. My oca patch is on a shady slope in my food forest. So far it coping OK with the heat, but I guess I will have to see how what it produces come winter. I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile burying some of the stems to get more tubers?
Wishing everyone a safe, healthy, and peaceful 2025 💚🎉🥳✨️🙏🏾🍾🥂✌🏾🪴
Happy New Year 2025😊🇦🇺
Happy new year Rick - have a great one 💚🎉✨
I've been growing oca for the last few years with varying levels of success. I love the taste in salads and stews but they are so fiddly to clean i just scrub with a brush. Anyone got any other methods of cleaning?
I use a stiff pot brush on the too, my method is to rinse then put in a colander and brush in circles over all of them whilst running water too ... I don;t mind a little bit of soil deep in the cracks going in the stews etc, where I know our soils here ... extra nutrients 😁
A crop I’ll try, but like you I’d like know how to cook them other than roasting. I know another TH-camr who uses these as an alternative to radishes for winter salads & he said you can eat the leaves in a small amount in salads. Me - not too sure, but I’ll give them a go in my perennial bed. However, they just look like oversized Chinese Artichokes that I once saw on Victorian Kitchen Garden.
I’m off to eBay to buy me some oca
Peace and plants guys x
YAY 🙌💚✌️🌿
I think this is what I ment not yacon lol shows I know nothing about what I want not even the name
The brilliant thing is though Cheryl is that you are keen to learn 🙌 and your immerse yourself in it right now, which in my eyes is one of the best ways ... along with then actually doing 💚✌️🌿
@ I’d so love to come see your place sometime, when things are growing and ticking over. It would be amazing and awesome.
But don’t know if possible as I’m in southeast Kent, near Dover area. Long way to get to you lol but closer then many I follow in the USA! Lil
@ do you know where to get things like the yacon and that to start with?
As this year I was lucky at the end of season to find. 1 plant in Homebase for sweet potato. And got 1kg off it. Did well I think as no idea how to grow it.
You guys might want to consider a cat
We are trying to entice a couple of local wld ones in more ... unfortunately Muphy isn't too fond and will happily see them off, we are starting to put food out in areas he doesn;t go so much in hope 🤞