Oca 'Sweet Meadow'

AVAILABLE IN WINTER UNTIL STOCKS LAST. AFTER JUNE, THE TUBERS WILL BE POTTED AND SOLD WITH A SURCHARGE OF € 1.00.
Delicious light yellow, rather large tubers, fresh and slightly sweet in taste. This is a mutant from New Zealand and, like it, is one of the mildest-tasting varieties. Plants produce longer runners. They can be eaten raw in salads, cooked, stir-fried or deep-fried. Young shoots and leaves of the oca are ornamental and delightfully spicy in salads!
Perhaps unknown to us, but a staple food in the Andes region after the potato, and also very popular in New Zealand. They grow up to an altitude of 3000 m! Our tubers are round, with transverse indentations, the clover leaf and orange-yellow flowers are very decorative. The taste is like a potato with a pleasant, slightly sour aftertaste (oxalic acid). This disappears, however, if the tubers have been in the sun for a few days; they then become floury and sweet. In short, cultivation: in March, start the tubers growing in a warm, light spot, if possible put them outside on nice days, and plant them permanently outdoors from mid-May. Cover in late autumn to allow for the longest possible ripening, the tubers must overwinter frost-free.

Names:
Latin: Oxalis tuberosa, or also Oxalis crenata
Dutch: Oca
Also: Oxalis crenata
English: Oca