Nancy Reading wrote:
Richard Gorny wrote:Raised bed filled mostly with compost, built on sandy soil.
May be a bit dry perhaps? What is your summer temperature and rainfall like? It seems to like it with me, and my summer is very cool and fairly damp.
There is potential to improve the yield through selection, if you get seed set. The biggest effort is in digging it up - that is the downside of root crops!
Randy Bachman wrote:
Richard Gorny wrote:I have tried to grow skirret and under my conditions roots are small and thin, under lush greenery above ground. I let it self-seed, but I no longer try to eat it these days, too much work compared to yield.
What kind of conditions do you grow in?