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Old 24-11-2003, 03:14 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Dioscorea batatas (hardy Yam)


In article . 10,
Victoria Clare writes:
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| You might like to have a go at Stachys affinis ("Chinese artichoke").
| I tried it, and it isn't bad as a nibble, but doesn't like dry
| summers.
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| Hmm, thanks. Will consider. Those roots do look alarmingly like maggots
| tho!

Funny. That seems to be a near-universal reaction. They don't
look any less like them close up, either.

I will report on Oxalis tuberosum in due course.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.