Mix 1 includes: 2x Mashua Mix, 5x Jerusalem Artichoke Fuseau, 5x Jerusalem Artichoke Red Fuseau
Mix 2 includes: 100x Tiger Nuts, 5x Jerusalem Artichoke Aurora Rubin and 5x Jerusalem Artichoke White Truffle.--- WATCH VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3-rYJYpXX4
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Tiger Nuts, also known as Chufa is a hardy perennial producing a generous deposit of delicious starchy tubers commonly known as tiger nuts or earth almonds. These can be eaten fresh or dried for long term storage. Tiger nuts were the primary source of food for our Paleolithic ancestors 2 million years ago and they are among the oldest cultivated vegetables dating back to 16000 BC in Egypt. The nuts grow underground and can easily be made into a beverage called tiger milk by blending them with some water and sugar. Ideal plant for a perennial vegetable garden or a forest garden as it will grow year after year with almost no maintenance. Tiger nuts are dried for storage, please soak for 24 hours before planting. Please note they are frost sensitive, so they are best planted out after chances of a hard frost have passed. You could start them early in trays or pots in a greenhouse in April or May to give them a head start.
Madeira Vine is a frost tender perennial climber producing masses of edible leaves with a pleasant flavour, these are a really good spinach substitute. It also produces edible tubers that have a mucilaginous texture, this characteristic is lost after roasting. It’s quite ornamental with it’s thick heart shaped leaves and white flowers in autumn. Harvest video below.
Oca is a fantastic root vegetable! It's easy to grow and requires no maintenance. It is frost sensitive, but has no blight issues at all. Oca are healthy and tasty, a valuable source for vitamin C, B6, A, potassium and iron. It was first introduced to Europe in the 1830’s to compete with the potato, it never became popular and the potato ended up on almost every Europeans dinner plate for nearly 200 years. Oca is quite rare nowadays, perhaps it’s not suitable for commercial production, however it is a good vegetable for the domestic garden. Lets make it popular again! It can be cooked in much the same ways as potatoes, our favorite way is to roast them in the oven with some oil, salt and pepper.
We like to get them off to a good start by planting tubers in small pots or trays in the greenhouse around March or April and plant them out into our no dig garden beds as strong seedlings at the end of May when there is no more frosts. Mashua and Jerusalem artichokes are best planted out direction around March. We have videos on planting and harvesting all these different tubers and more.
PLEASE NOTE THIS ITEM IS PART OF THE WINTER SELECTION AND WILL BE POSTED IN DECEMBER WHEN PLANTS HAVE BECOME DORMANT.