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Post by steev on Mar 20, 2013 17:46:16 GMT -5
My landlady decided that one I'd planted had to go; she'd never liked it. So I dug it up and found it had a couple tubers that were pretty large. I peeled, thick-sliced, and boiled those. They seemed very fibrous, though not so much when chewed, although they hadn't softened much from long cooking, like water chestnuts. The taste was blandly pleasant. Reminds me of jicama.
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Post by steev on Mar 21, 2013 0:56:40 GMT -5
Consensus of landlady and housemate: too fibrous. Guess it's another of those crops not worth growing, but useful on the margins, if things go to hell. Pretty, though.
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bertiefox
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Post by bertiefox on Mar 21, 2013 11:59:12 GMT -5
For a moment my hopes soared, but then you dashed them! I've been growing this worthless 'flower' for the past four years, and each year I foolishly believe it might, just might, produce a display of flowers at the end of the season. Never done it yet, though it gets up to 15 feet or more easily now! It's best as a conversation plant: 'What's that?' 'It's a dahlia': 'Surely not'.. 'Yes, it's Dahlia imperialis... and one day it might flower!'
Now if the roots/tubers WERE edible and pleasant then I could justify going on growing it, but it appears not! Just out of interest, have you tried eating them when they are fresh at the end of the growing season rather than after they have gone into dormancy, assuming you are in the northern hemisphere?
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Post by steev on Mar 21, 2013 15:15:42 GMT -5
No, this was my only tasting of it; it did occur to me, too, that it might be better some other time of year.
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