One of the unique features of oca is the frequency with which clones manifest phenotypic changes. The most obvious of these changes is to skin color. I haven’t done any careful analysis, but simply dividing the total number of tubers harvested by the number of changes that we have seen, changes to skin color may […]
It has been a busy couple of weeks, so I am behind in posting photos of our ulluco harvest. It turned out to be a pretty good year for ulluco. There were low points; some of the varieties that I got in long distance trades produced very little (the white one with pink spots disappeared […]
Our oca seedlings, sown from this year’s seeds, continue to grow at their own paces. These 53 seedlings (9 have disappeared, probably down a slug’s gullet, since the last update) all resulted from two August sowings and were all grown under the same conditions. Some are still tiny plants with only two or three sets […]
The oca flowering season came to an end this week. All of the plants are still growing strong, but they dropped the last of their flowers. That seems like another bit of evidence that oca have a limited flowering period that is not necessarily related to weather. The weather, other than the wind, which is […]
Fresh camas bulbs(I know that they don’t look that appetizing, but the outer layer is easy to peel once they are steamed.) If you like your food not just slow, but really slow, you should look into camas (Camassia quamash is the most common variety, but there are also Camassia leichtlinii and others). Camas is […]