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If you google roasted oca you will find lots of nice recipes. You can treat them as if you were roasting potatoes, or do something more elaborate if you want to
Yes 🙂 eat them they’re delicious
my understanding of old compost teas is that while they would still have some minerals they would also be anerobic and full of the associated microbes, which are the kind you DON’T want in your veg beds.
one of the main things that’s beneficial about fresh compost tea is it’s full of aerobic microbes (esp if it’s been stirred or bubbled) which are the kind that help plants be healthy
Garlic loves it too
i have an infestation of these things in my plastic compost bin. i inherited this bin with my new site and i’ve continued to add to it. i put a lot of brussels sprout plants in the bin so i expect they like that. today in our first really warm weather there was a swarm of them on the plastic in the ‘shoulders’ of the bin.
as we are wanting to grow kale commercially on this site i’m quite horrified to see them. they are so tiny and difficult to catch in any way! are there any measures i can take to reduce them before kale season? google tells me to spray soap or garlic oil, i will try that but they are in among the compost so i will miss half of them whatever i do. should i burn the compost?
i’m also creating new beds on top of a lawn of creeping buttercup. it’s good to read that it’s an indicator of fertile soil, albeit clayey, wet and compacted!
i am weeding every week and am shocked at how quickly it grows through 5-8″s of muck but i am just remembering that i have to persevere. it seems like the trick of no-dig is to weed your little heart out for the first few months and then you suddenly don’t have to anymore because you’ve won!
we don’t have buttercup on our old site but there we conquered the couch grass and sheeps sorrel now and only have to deal with blown-in seeds which is easy (as long as you never let them establish or seed)
i also get myself in these kinds of knots! i am trying to relax more about it this year.
i try to think in terms of – strong roots are beneficial for all plants, so it doesn’t harm to sow anything on a root day.
and flowers and fruit could be interchangable as one is dependent on the other
you can always try later to transplant and otherwise tend to things on their correct days, plus maria thun didn’t seem to care at all what days things were sown, only the transplant day.
our best variety of sprouts this year was Seven Hills, from Real Seed Catalogue. i chose them because they are more wind resistant than most and they did really well on our ridiculously exposed site. we will be growing them every year now.
my gooseberry bushes have also ended up that kind of shape. i have been cutting out the middle to leave the ‘wineglass’ shape, which seems to work despite there being no leg.
i’d be a bit worried that cutting the whole bush back to just one stick in one go would be too much of a shock for the bush? the pruning that you’ve already done should have rejuvenated it quite well.
if you do cut it right back to create the leg it might be an idea to plant the stems that you remove, as cuttings, which you can train from the get-go into the traditional shape. plus then you also have some insurance as at least some of them will live!
would it be ok to use fresh manure mulch on raspberries and currants?