You can store rare edible tubers such as Oca, Yacon, Mashua, Chinese artichoke, Jerusalem artichoke, Ulluco, Apios etc in much the same ways as the more well known potato, carrot and other root vegetables. Ideally tubers are kept in an almost dry sterile potting compost, peat or sand to keep the air off preventing mold. […]
Saving your own seeds from plants in your garden has many advantages: -Your plants will adapt to your local condition and grow stronger year after year. -You can save money and harvest large amounts of top quality fresh seeds. -You can keep varieties that are no longer available for sale. -You will become more self-reliant. […]
Apios americana is also known as ground nut and it’s old folk name is travelers delight. It’s a rare edible perennial from north America and it’s tubers are connected like a string of sausages. Apios is a climber with ornamental flowers. Please let us know if you have Apios Priceana tubers or seeds, we’d like […]
Even though winter is a cold and dark time, we always look forward to it as there is a wondrous event taking place in the garden. Every year when the first hard frost signals that our growing season is more or less over, tuberous plants have retreated underground storing their energy for the following season. […]
Autumn is a great time of the year to save seeds. Whether annual or hardy perennial, most flowers and vegetables will have gone to seed by now and are ready for collecting in the garden. Seed saving has many advantages apart from saving money and having plenty to share. You will also find that your […]
One of the easiest and most rewarding vegetables we’ve ever grown is the pumpkin. We planted 7 different varieties into our No Dig mulched garden earlier this year as little seedlings that had been grown from seed in our greenhouse. At the time it was hard to imagine them turning into monster pumpkins 5 months […]
With winter slowly but surely approaching at the of October here in Ireland, our plant nursery and greenhouse are finishing up for the year until the beginning of March. Even now there are still lots of interesting plants to see, such as Cinnamon vine, Apios, Goji’s, grapes, figs and thornless blackberries. This years plants and […]
We made a video harvesting and planting of our No Dig sweet corn. It was planted into our woodchip mulched vegetable garden for zero maintenance. This year it was a bit of an experiment and we’re very happy with the results for our cold temperate climate here in Ireland. We used a variety from Scotland […]
Weeds, or as we like to call them undesirable plants normally don’t grow in our gardens because we don’t dig the soil and we always cover the ground with a thick layer of woodchip mulch. Well.. almost always. We left a small patch of ground uncovered and airborne thistle and grass seeds have established here. […]