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Old 04-06-2015, 06:15 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Growing Oca.

On 31/05/2015 7:15 AM, Bob Hobden wrote:
"Nick Maclaren" wrote
Bob Hobden wrote:
I see conflicting instructions on the net, some say bank up like
potatoes
and others don't.
Those who have grown them what did you do?


Brought them in, and kept them is very slightly damp soil. They
are significantly more frost-sensitive than potatoes.


I think there may have been a misunderstanding, what I meant was when
growing them in the garden did you bank them up like you do when growing
potatoes?

I understand you have to let the plants get frosted at the end of the
season but wait two weeks before digging up the tubers as the goodness
from the top goes back into the tubers.


Hmmm. Not sure that I see any sense in that comment given my
experience. My crop got zapped in a -6C frost and given the instant
mush of the top growth, I can't see how any 'goodness' from the zapped
top could get back to the tubers.

Delicious things - roasted some last night.