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Post by blackox on Jan 12, 2015 19:00:15 GMT -5
Anybody grow it? Anybody know of a source in the U.S. for tubers or possibly even seeds? While less desirable than other perrenial root crops, they still have potential for a permaculture setup (which I've been looking into). It looks like they make a good covercrop, and function as a medicinal as well.
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Post by steev on Jan 12, 2015 19:13:06 GMT -5
The tubers show up occasionally at my local produce market; if there is a "harvest" season, remind me, as I might well forget.
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Post by blueadzuki on Jan 12, 2015 19:17:45 GMT -5
Ditto, there are a few people at the FM at Union Square who sell it (or at least there were, I'm not sure I've seen it that last few years)
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Post by rowan on Jan 12, 2015 19:49:31 GMT -5
I grow a few beds of it. People love it at the markets to put in salads. I find it easy to grow and pretty well behaved.
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Post by khoomeizhi on Jan 12, 2015 20:11:09 GMT -5
i've been growing it for a few years. i've found tubers for sale in a number of places online in the past, but will have to dig a bit to remember where...
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Post by jeremy on Jan 12, 2015 22:09:23 GMT -5
I got some last year from companionplants.com
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Post by khoomeizhi on Jan 22, 2015 16:56:44 GMT -5
i guess that must be where i got them, too. can't think where else it would have been. there's always ebay, too.
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Post by luisport on Feb 13, 2015 16:41:40 GMT -5
I'm starting to growing them for first time! Very excited!
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Post by darrenabbey on Feb 13, 2015 23:31:15 GMT -5
Seeds might be hard to come by. From reports I've read, it seems to be self-sterile... which means the plants passed around as tubers won't set seed with other plants also grown from tubers.
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Post by mountaindweller on Feb 14, 2015 1:35:51 GMT -5
I don't have them in a garden bed but under trees in shade. When I ripped some out the tubers were quite tiny and I didn't bother to cook them. They are perennial and a bit weedy. A ground cover which looks and behaves a bit like mint. backyardnursery.freeforums.net/ |
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Post by ottawagardener on Mar 6, 2015 14:19:06 GMT -5
I grow them and have never seen flowers on my variety. They are decent sized tubers too.
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Post by Tiirsys on Mar 18, 2015 21:35:58 GMT -5
I have some growing in a raised bed, but didn't purposely dig them up. The ones I unintentionally found were pretty tiny.
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Post by robertb on Apr 10, 2015 1:54:53 GMT -5
I tried them a few years ago; I got a few good sized tubers and lots of tiny ones. What really put me off was that the soil stick in all the indentations in the tubers. It might be worth trying again in raised beds, or in a container. It spread like mad.
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