It's that time of the year, we have made one more tuber harvest video. In the coming months we will make videos on the basics of gardening and various no dig techniques, but for now we wanted to use the winter as an opportunity to make a new Mashua harvest video. For those of you that haven't heard of this plant, it is a tuberous nasturtium very well suited to our cold temperate maritime climate. There is more info in the link for the useful plants series below.
It is a tuberous nasturtium very well suited to our cold temperate maritime climate in Ireland. In spring, when it's still cold and not much else is growing, mashua takes off to an early start and it almost takes over the place with it's climbing shoots. In fall it flowers and retracts back into fresh tuberous stored underground for the winter well protected from the frost. No artificial storage and replanting required, same as the potato and the oca when using woodchip mulch. In our gardens they have been coming back year after year more vigorous. For more info and pictures etc see link below.
gardensforlife.ie/useful-plant...