Although I live in a frost prone area, I manage to get chokos on the vine every year, just before the frost starts.
Next year’s choko vine
Yes, I can hear you saying, ‘I hate chokos’.
These are a vegetable that is not worth buying in the shop and really they do have quite a short season. In season, young and fresh, they are tasty and sweet just steamed by themselves, but if you try to use them when they are older, they are truly worthy of their bad reputation.
The best thing about them is that they take so little care and are so easy to propagate. Even when you are picking fresh ones to eat, there will be one or two on the vine that are busy sprouting. You can save these sprouting chokos for ages. Just leave them sitting on the bench or in a basket and they will produce quite long runners all by themselves.
Either you can keep them until the frost season is over, then plant them out or do as I did last year, plant them out and cover them completely with hay for protection and then forget about them except for a very occasional drop of water.
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