Winter is firmly on it’s way! In this video we’re going to give you a quick tour of our gardens after the first mild frosts and just before we’re about to experience a week of -8C hard frosts. In anticipation of the hard frost coming a week in advance according to weather predictions, we dug up a good few tubers and mounded all of our Yacon stools left behind in the garden. We using a good thick layer of compost to hopefully protect the growing tips from the frost and from being tawed too quickly by the sunlight causing the cell walls to burst, leaving behind black crowns. The results will be revealed after the hard frost is finally over and we will be preparing adequately for the another one indeed! The Winter is far from over and thankfully we’re about to get a breather with a tropical storm bringing some warm air on the Atlantic ocean. Unfortunately this also comes with the usual bit of rain, but with these cold temperatures we’re experiencing at the moment we don’t mind. We’ll be posting a video tour showing the gardens toward the end of the long one week frost shortly.
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I will definitely have a look at your shop in spring I'm still looking for walking onions, mine died out ! Though I only had 3 bulbils to start with. Everything here is under six inches of snow now and I won't be in the garden again untill march. My maschua grew about two meters long but I started with very small tubers. I've had Gigi berries about six years which have been blooming for three years now but not a single berry! Not even a green one. The flowers just fall off. I hope you have better luck with yours, mine are going to be pulled out this spring.