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 […]
Our next LIVE stream is going to be tomorrow on Wednesday the 7th of October at 7pm GMT. The most popular topic chosen by our audience this time is 10 Medicinal Plants – Traditional Household Medicine. We will talk briefly about how to grow each of them in your garden, when to harvest and how […]
We made a quick Video Tour of our multi function garden & nursery with a sneak peak at our new green house. Overall these gardens have multiple functions such growing food & medicine, growing specimen plants for propagation materials and starting new plants both from seed & cuttings. Enjoy! Talk to you in the comments […]
Chinese artichokes are a reliable cropper producing lots of small tasty tubers. It’s perennial and grows similar to mint so it’s best grown in containers or in a permanent location. Tubers can be eaten raw or cooked. We like to add them to salads or just snack away at them while we’re in the garden. […]
The other day we harvested a bed of onions & carrots and freed up another bed where our broccoli had gone to flower. Now we have space to plant something new! In this video we are showing how simple bed preparation can be when using no dig. We mulched the beds with 3cm of compost […]
As part of our last Ancient Edible Tubers LIVE Stream we compiled some of the best bits of our tuber harvest videos with music. Included are the Potato, Oca, Mashua, Yacon, Apios & Jerusalem Artichoke. If you’re interested in more information about all of these tubers please feel free to check out our other videos […]
Horseradish is a great perennial root crop often used for seasoning & sauces. It’s very hardy and requires no attention. Vigorous root cuttings are freshly harvested on the day of shipping and sent out unwashed for extra preservation. Root cuttings can be planted in a pot to start them off or directly into the ground […]
Comfrey is traditionally known as knitbone with many uses both in the garden and in the homestead. The leaves make for great compost tea and mulching material as they are high in minerals and nitrogen. In permaculture, due to it’s deep tap root comfrey is known as a mineral accumulator and often planted under fruit […]
The next LIVE stream will be all about Ancient Edible Tubers. This includes tubers such as Oca, Mashua, Jerusalem Artichokes, Yacon, Tigernuts (Chufa), Ullucus & Cinnamon Vine. We’ll be showing you how to grow them and what sort of harvests we’ve had here in our cold temperate climate in the midlands of Ireland. We will […]