Transplanting Oca, Mashua, Ulluco and Potatoes

I am lucky - I have more garden space!
Now I can transplant some of plants.
The spot looks ugly right now, I know. Construction is progress. :)

But anyway I can get 8 small-regular size raised beds!





 


2 week ago I started some of the Andean tubers like  Oca.

2 types of Oca Hopin and Sunset, Ulluco and Mashua. 
This one is mashua, my first. Looks like nasturtium for me. It is a really a member of nasturtium family. Vines climb up to 10 feet

 The plant are doing good but I believe they need more soil.

 This is ulluco -Ullucus tuberosus - Pica de Pulga type. Beautiful yellow tubers with purple-red blotching. Diameter to 3 inches or  more.

 Oca Sunset - tubers are yellow to orange with purple eyes. Green stems and foliage.

 Oca Hopin - is more purple, the stems and leaves.

 This is a final variant of oca sunset, mashua in front and eggplant on the back.

 Ulluco after the first watering!

 Oca

 Mashua

 Oca

Never believe you can grow potatoes in containers!

Or you have the get really LARGE containers, I mean it!

 At first I tried to grow some of  them in pots, 10 inches diameter. I planted my store- bought, accidentally sprouted potatoes in pots.



2 weeks after  - and the roots are covered all the pot space!

I am lucky I got more garden beds to plant them in.

It will be my first time growing potatoes, but I have seen the process the whole my childhood in my grandparents village gardens. The lots there were HUGE and the harvest! 50 sacks easily.
I hope to get one bushel, will see!

Harvest Monday April 28 2014

And so it's begins!

 It is not much and not every day, but it is a start!

 Garden view from the deck.
Still a lot of work.

 Container greens

 Cold frame greens

 I planted most of the kale on black fabric this year.

 and most of the new strawberries.

 And I am growing the Andean tubers the first year, I am so excited!
This one is mashua.

 This is ulluco, just started.

And 2 types of oca (oxalis tuberosa) - Hopin and Sunset.






Shared at: Daphne’s Dandelions “Harvest Monday” where everyone can share links to their harvest or how they are using their harvests for the week.