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Exotic vegetables
I felt that I had got stuck in a rut, so am trying the following this year: Mouse melon (Melothria scabra) Achocha (Cyclanthera pedata) Yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius) Yard long bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis) Cherokee Trail of Tears bean Greek Gigantes bean Any bets on my success rate? :-) The yacon was bought as a tuber, and has sprouted, but the slugs or snails got it, so I have watered with Slugclear and will see if it now succeeds. The others are germinating - I am fairly confident of the last two, but have my doubts on the others. And, of course, only a third of the exotic vegetables I have grown were worth repeating. Some were marginal (like Chinese artichoke and oca) and I did for a few years, but others (like Japanese burdock and cardoon) were disgusting. Curiously, the former CAN be grown to be good, but I suspect that it needs warm, wet conditions. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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