Plating first tomatoes, oka and potatoes

 The spring weather turns out to be a summer very fast, we missed 50s and came to 70s in one week. I decided not to plant radishes but tomatoes.

 and some oka (white and pink) beneath the large tomatoes plants.

 The new bed in the middle with the strawberries bed on the left and carrot bed on the right.

 Baby basil

 I also had some store-bough organic potatoes that sprouted, I planted them in post and they grew huge. I found the small bed for them.

 newly planted potatoes.

 This year I am a big fan of pine shavings.
I want to cover all the beds and all the passes to prevent weeds and dry soil.

 Strawberry is started to bloom, so lovely.

 My 3-years old red currants are blooming this year!

Other plants like cabbages are doing pretty well too.

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!