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They can be stored the way potatoes are stored, a cellar or other storage room, not hot, I can keep them for eating until half of May ( I put the tubers for growing in pots in the greenhouse from about 1-15 april on).  I don't keep them in compost or other ground, just dark, a bit humid , although dry is tolerated as well, and temperatures between 2 and let's say 8 degrees.
Frank

Orflo, how do you grow good size tubers. I grew oca for the first time this year in a well manured raised bed, but most of the tubers were really quite small and we will only get about one decent meal from 8 plants. Advice please ....and a good recipe for our one meal!!!!

It's not really that difficult, but there is a major rule: tuberisation begins only after September 21.  Due to the fact the foliage doesn't stand frosts, you have to protect them whenever there is a frost announcement.  Harvest them (and protect them) as late as possible, my harvest begins at the earliest around 20 Nov. And you have to upearth them, the same as potatoes.
There is a trick to have an earlier harvest: from mid August you can cover the plants with a black plastic or something simular, and thus giving them a reduced daylight(I tried giving them 9 hours of daylight) for a period of two weeks, everyday covering and uncovering, and tuberisation begins far earlier, which makes also an earlier harvest.
Frank

I think they didn't have enough time to form tubers - we had an early frost which knocked them back a bit. Perhaps I will try them on my  top allotment next year as it doesn't get so much frost.

Right I'm going to dig ours from the big greenhouse today, and start some Chicons now the ground has thawed enough to dig out some roots!
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