Comments on: A RARE TUBEROUS NASTURTIUM FROM THE ANDES

By: My Tong

My Tong — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 23:37:39 +0000

Hi Matt, thanks for the growing media tips, so did your double pot experiment work?

Also, where did you source the tubers from?

By: Svetla

Svetla — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 17:13:22 +0000

Can you, please, write a brief post about your Piet Oudolf inspired bed? I am curious how the hakonechloa turned out. I am trying to propagate A LOT of pants for a similar scheme, but I cannot decide on my key elements — the grasses. What will you choose for central PA, zone 6a?

By: Matt Mattus

Matt Mattus — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:16:15 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. Thanks Chad, I have read that native people first leave the tubers out to freeze on frosty nights to improve the flavor, and then boil them in a stew.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 01:56:54 +0000

Tropaeolum tuberosum is reliably perennial outdoors in the UK. I pity anyone who tries to eat it though; unlike Oxalis tuberous [also perennial here, but needing a good year to make a crop of tubers] I can not find a way to make it palatable. The Oxalis are like new potatoes, the Tropaeolum just unpleasant!

Tropaeolum tricolor just about survives outside, but as a winter green it is blown to bits in the winter winds. Under unheated cover is covers a 4ft support with vigour. It makes a 'pot full' of bulbs from just a few in one year, but here it doesn't go dormant with summer heat until July. Even in July we are not getting many days over 21C though.

Chad