Growing Hopniss (Apios americana), an Indigenous N. American Food Crop (aka American Groundnut)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Apios americana is an indigenous North American food crop that produces edible tubers with more nutrition and protein than a potato. Also called Hopniss, American Groundnut, and Potato Bean, this Legume has edible flowers, fixes nitrogen, and is a lovely garden plant. It’s also a perennial and will happily live on a trellis in your garden for many many years. Learn about how to grow this traditional food.
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How about an update? I have these growing wild in my yard and think they are one of the most beautiful flowers I've ever seen.
I read somewhere that like Jerusalem artichokes which also cause gas, “Boiling in an acid such as lemon juice or vinegar will hydrolyze the inulin to fructose and small amounts of glucose" making them safe for the sensitive gut.
The indigenous peoples used to plant this and "forget" about it for a few years. They would come back to where it was planted, and harvest. And of course they kept on spreading it around to ensure that there would be food when needed. It does have a habit of spreading on its own, and, as a perennial food, you would want that. Just like sun chokes tend to be a bit weedy, this one is too. And it is most challenging to 'unplant" it.
Nice! Someone who knows. I started to focus on invasive edible perennials. After growing annuals with difficulty for years I came to the conclusion that some native cultures had their food all figured out long before we came to tell them otherwise hahaha. If it's invasive it just means it's what you need. Let it spread and take over, than come back and feast!
This is great... is there any chance you'd have time for a follow up video this spring? I'd love to see how it grew :)
I found this growing wild in my backyard today 😲
I love groundnuts, had a few yesterday roasted along with a few other root vegetables. They are somewhat drier fleshed than potato but have a rich flavor like a cross of potato and peanut and mildly sweet. Not nearly as sweet as a sweet potato or carrot, though. They are a little hard to cut up compared to a potato or even a sweet potato. They have a very dense flesh but are well worth the effort.
It occurs naturally and grows vigorously on my site in New England. But I still haven't gotten up the nerve to eat it!
Eat it!
Does not forget to update on the progress. I’m thinking of planting one in FL.
Can we have an update on this? I’ve started to grow this this year
I just harvested my crop a month ago. I left it mostly unharvested for two years. Substantial harvest! It's tasty, a bit nutty, with more texture than a potato. I want to figure out how to preserve it (I know Native Americans dried it).
This was music to my ears. I already had a groundnut plant and was considering putting it next to my goji....
I just harvested from a plant that I have had for two summers. Half a dozen 1-1/2 to 2” diameter tubers. Also grew them in a big tree pot as I wasn’t sure if they would be invasive or be like sunchokes. Haven’t cooked them yet. Also PNW.
Just plant in the ground, if it takes over and thrives then it's good because it's food. Invasive food crops are what we need. Whenever it takes over you just eat away!
Sometimes I look at the darn weeds and want to hate-eat them. If they're growing in my space, I feel they are valid targets.
@@jeffengel2607 Many are edible! look em up!, yellow dock is delish - leaves are like lemony spinach
I bought a few different varieties of hopniss to plant this year. Did you ever do an update on yours? I searched your channel page and can't find one. I'm very excited to see if you and your girls do a taste test of them like you did with the sunchokes!
I found it was very thirsty in a pot. Pot always looked dry, but I still got a wonderful harvest. ❤
Very interesting, I never knew of this plant before, thank you!
Never find ANYTHING on hopniss- THANK YOU
i guess I'm kinda off topic but does anybody know a good place to stream newly released movies online?
@Vincent Ari lately I have been using flixzone. You can find it by googling :)
@Jonathan Lawrence Yup, I have been using Flixzone for months myself :)
@Jonathan Lawrence thanks, signed up and it seems to work :D I appreciate it!!
@Vincent Ari you are welcome =)
I am growing this in subtropical Australia. It flowered in the first year, beautiful flowers, not so nice scent. It dies back in winter here even though it doesn’t get real cold. I keep forgetting it is there and plant other things on the trellis, which hasn’t helped it thrive. It was recommended to plant it in three spots, and rotate harvests so you harvest three year tubers.
Hi there, I've never heard of this plant before. How has it grown for you? Where did you source your plants from? I'm in Tasmania. Seems as though they would grow here, but our quarantine restrictions are severe.
@Ruby Gray Green Harvest Organic Gardening in Qld, when they have them. Not sure where they ship etc. Tropical tubers do better for me.
@@thisearththeonlyheaven Thankyou! I hadn't checked their catalogue in a while.
very cooperative plant... no problem living with my other plants
Hi Angela, thanks for the helpful video as always!
Any chance you could give an update for this plant? Especially your opinion about its growth and whether or not to put it in the ground. Seems like a nitrogen fixing vine that produces potato-esque tubers would be a great vertical layer to add to a garden, but I don't want to be hasty about planting something potentially "invasive"
Thanks!
Awesome I just got some groundnut in fall I'm waiting excitedly to see it come up :)
Sell me seeds😭 if it’s the diploid of course
Great info
This seems like a really interesting plant! I appreciate learning 🥰
Yippy.... Another Oregon Gardener.😊
My first little tubers are just starting to vine.
How is your Hopiness growing in its 3rd season ?
can you make a harvest video? It's been a year
This has been growing as a weed in my blackberry patch (don't think they make great companions in my experience. I transplanted some and they did flower but the flowers didn't get pollinated. I'd been hoping to at least see what the beans were like, if not plant some. Did yours get pollinated? I read that they're pollinated by bees so I planted queen annes lace near it since it blooms before the hopniss.
I have these growing in my backyard and In A month or 2 They'll be ready for picking tubers I'll be maybe make fritters out of the flowers As there's so many this will be my first year Eating the flowers have you ever done that...? But my question is can you grow this from cuttingI seem to not find information on how and if that works correctly..... ?
😭😭😭😭I grew hopniss last year, but I killed it. I put it in a garden bed that I had sheet mulched the year before. I didn’t realize that under the few inches of nice soil, the heavy clay was poorly draining. I think it also may have suffered from too much animal browse. If I grow this again, maybe the frost resistant pot with some sand is the way to go!
Do you have or are planning a follow-up?
Have you tried the beans it produces ?curious i just found a few growing on my property and they have beans
How’d this experiment turn out?
I have one in a pot and its taking a long time to come up please help me
Are these the diploids that can be grown from seed?
Has it been tried out in tropical climates?
How big a pot do you advise? Would a half barrel (wine barrel) work?
Follow up?
Damn, I just spent $16 on 20 seeds this morning. Seeds are not reliable to grow into an actual plant.
Wow i didn know they indigenous USA???
I am trying it 1stime.
I grow 15lbs Sunchoke bulbs per plant.
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Yes, there are wild tomatoes native2 USA.
I harvested 38 POUNDS in 5 hours yellow wild ground cherry from a stand I grew on bulldozed soil with ZERO attendance.
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NOT a fruit. It a concentrate just add sugar lemon 2taste boil 10 or 20 minutes keeps freezer years, has built in gell& anti freeze.
Elder has a ginseng component used by military forces Europe 4endurance. Has highest ORAC of any fruit.
There IS a (super common) lemon tree east of throckies. Sumac. Its berries are pure citric acid a must gro.
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The leverage here huge. I plant tomatoe low in pot. Yet light goes right thru down 2seedling.
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