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Dioscorea batatas (hardy Yam)
In article , Victoria Clare writes: | I'm wondering whether to give this a go this year. Chiltern has seed, and | www.futurefoods.com has tubers. | | Is it worth growing? Anyone here growing it? The suppliers reckon it is | mostly hardy, and as I am in Cornwall I could take the chance - but on the | other hand my garden looks straight North to Dartmoor, and there was still | frost on the lawn at lunchtime.... Unless it tastes a hell of a lot better than the tropical ones, no. That excludes the problems that the claimed hardiness is for very well-drained soil and probably low night temperatures only, and that it may well need more heat and light to grow than we get. 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. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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