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Tag Archives: mashua
Patience
Over the years I have discovered that gardening with perennials is about playing the long game, looking to the future and being patient. You can’t have what you might want immediately, you may not be able to have it soon … Continue reading
Posted in Borderland Garden, Edible Perennial Gardening, Forest Gardening, Perennial Vegetables
Tagged beans, mashua, mulch, Oca, sweet cicely, tree onion, ulluco
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Yet more mashua
If there is anyone else who would like some mashua tubers please let me know. 6 April, update, I have packed up some parcels today and there are still more lying in a basket hoping for a home so do … Continue reading
Masses of mashua and plenty to spare
Further to my post on 7 January 2016 I have had a chance at last to dig up some of the mashua harvest – this is the haul from what was either one or two plants. The tubers were all … Continue reading
the garden going it alone …..
It has been a while since I posted regular updates on this blog – I have been poorly for some months, but am on the mend now. It has also meant that I have not been able to spend much … Continue reading
Posted in Borderland Garden, Perennial Vegetables, Polycultures
Tagged chard, Daubentons Kale, jerusalem artichoke, land cress, mashua, Oca, root chicory, root parsley, skirret, wild rocket
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Mashua in flower
How lovely is this! What a sight for a damp and windy November afternoon on a Welsh hillside! It was windy and the flowers kept moving about so this one’s a bit out of focus, but I was so glad to … Continue reading
Summer in the garden
After my post a few weeks ago about a lack of bees, there are more about in both gardens than there were. The Borderland garden is now absolutely buzzing with both bees and other insects. The Telford garden has less, but … Continue reading
Evaluating 2013 in the Telford garden
Our house in Telford went up for sale in the late spring of 2013. As yet it has not sold but the year began with the clear possibility in mind that we may not see the growing season out in … Continue reading
Delights in the Mid Winter Garden
I would contend that a garden of edible perennials must be one of the few to yield delights in the cold and often bleak mid winter months. I have left a number of root vegetables in the ground over the … Continue reading
Comparing microclimates
I have two gardens in very different locations and they are not behaving as I had expected in respect of responses to the oncoming winter. The first is a suburban garden and is about 500 feet above sea level. The second … Continue reading
Posted in Borderland Garden, Forest Gardening, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, Polycultures, roots and tubers
Tagged jerusalem artichoke, mashua, Oca, Yacon
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Autumn Tidy Up
This weekend I have had an opportunity to get out into the Telford garden enjoying the golden autumn sunshine and doing some tidying up. I have not had much time to spend in this garden over the summer and until … Continue reading
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