Now, it's well known that these peculiarly British events can sometimes lead to 'poisonous rivalries, paranoia and sabotage' amongst participants, but there's no denying that they get results, whether it's by skulduggery, good husbandry, or top-secret fertiliser recipes of superphosphate and goat urine.
The problem is that these events are always held in the Summer; no use to growers of alternative tuber crops.
Never mind, I'll just hold my own show.
Here's my entry for the blue riband class: "Oca, (5 tubers of a single variety)"...
I'm the only entry in the class, so I should have a good chance of a 'First' on this one. Unless you can upstage me that is.
Feel free to invent another competition class. How about"Biggest Oca", or "Oca, artistic arrangement".
Send in your jpegs and I'll post them here. We don't need the RHS to have a good time!
Oh, and no paranoia, sabotage, Photoshopping, or image morphing please. That just wouldn't be British.
5/2/12. And here is another entry. Again grown in West London, this time from Michael Willcocks, who's entering the 'Oca, Medley' section. Very respectable.
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Those are nice.
ReplyDeleteIn the Toads garden up in Denmark some pretty ones can be found...
I'm not real sure how you people up in the cold zones are getting these fancy long season veggies b4 we do here in the deep south (USA).
If the comments on the other site are to be believed, these ocas can get large.
I'm growing Oca for the first time this year. Do you have any tips?
ReplyDeleteHi Frase. See 'Top tips for good yields' at the top of the page. Good luck with the crop!
DeleteFor next year how about a mutant tuber that looks like something else class? Open it up to more than oca though :)
ReplyDeleteHi Ian, I'm wondering of all your oca varieties which has been your favorite for size and taste? also do you sell some of your crop? i will be traveling there from california and am interested in adding to the standard ones i grow here.
ReplyDeleteHi Mike, contact me directly on ianpearson99(at)btinternet(dot)com
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