Wow what a great idea. I like the flexible grow bags. An alternative if you are super cheap (I am) is to find large baskets or hampers at thrift stores and line them with old sheets or tablecloths (also at thrift store), wicker laundry baskets, wicker laundry hampers, outdoor planter frames would all work if you are looking to recycle and repurpose.
Thanks for the idea.Grew mine in a free styro carton.Cut the base out and filled with soil.Two years later the carton cracked in two and I have a 30 pound yam.Makes digging the yam out very easy.
My goodness!! wow the yams grow on vine? well! mother nature has a way of using every means to bring forth. We thank you God for your generosity. I wonder how these yam tastes? Would certainly love to grow some
Wow! This is amazing! I like the video. I bought some purple yam at the farmers market and planted the head in a pot. I live in an apartment and I put it on my patio. Now the vine is growing and heading in the direction of the trees. Can I cut the vine to stop it from growing?
You can either plant an aerial bulbil, or a chunk of the underground yam, preferentially the top end of the yam. You can usually find these at grocery stores. Peel and cook until soft, use like a potato.
That is so cool! I've been investigating subtropical and tropical veggies that produce a lot of food. I just discovered pigeon peas yesterday! Now, I live in E. Orlando so can you tell me please, where exactly did you get your yam to start your plants and what month do you start them in? Fresh and Fancy Fruit up on E. Colonial had two yams there the other day. They had a white yam that looked similar to a stretched coconut and then they had these yellow yam things that look like Jurassic Park! They were cut and the yams were all crooked and huge. I don't know if they cut off a tap root or what, but there were a lot of cut areas on the pile. I didn't pick them up because I was in a hurry and just came in to see what their meat specials were going to be for this week. In another video showing Jamaican cooking, a lady had a yellow yam that she said if you touch it while peeling it that it makes you itch and you have to use paper towels to peel it??? Are all of these yams like that? I saw in yet another video, the guy in Tampa said that the yam was slimy like okra until it is totally cooked. I hate okra. I really, really want to grow these yams but I want to make sure I get a really good one and I am aware that there are differences. All I have currently are a bunch of air potatoes that I've been trying to get rid of and when I first started searching online, I thought that I actually had a yam and am greatly disappointed, Boohoo!
What do you eat? The aerial bulbil and the ground yam, which I had when I lived in Papua New Guinea in 1982/83 and really enjoyed it, or just the ground yam. I wonder if Sweet Potato would climb like these fellows? Do you know if yams only grow in the tropics Marabou? Thanks for a cool, learning video... Note to self, use grow bags or have lots of plastic pots... Cheers Mate David.
Sweet potato vines will climb a trellis, yes. If they're allowed to grow along the ground they put down roots wherever they can. Growing them on a trellis forces the plant to put more effort into the original root.
Wow what a great idea. I like the flexible grow bags. An alternative if you are super cheap (I am) is to find large baskets or hampers at thrift stores and line them with old sheets or tablecloths (also at thrift store), wicker laundry baskets, wicker laundry hampers, outdoor planter frames would all work if you are looking to recycle and repurpose.
Thanks for the idea.Grew mine in a free styro carton.Cut the base out and filled with soil.Two years later the carton cracked in two and I have a 30 pound yam.Makes digging the yam out very easy.
Congratulations. Now that's a success. I'm going to post a link to this in my newsletter this week.
awesome! Thanks for the all the support! (And your nonstop contributions to the education of Florida foragers. )
My goodness!! wow the yams grow on vine? well! mother nature has a way of using every means to bring forth. We thank you God for your generosity. I wonder how these yam tastes? Would certainly love to grow some
Very cool. Good job with your project, dude.
Thanks for the heads up on how to propogate also.
I had no idea the aerial tubers got to be so large.
Wow it really filled out the pot. What is the fertilizer régime?
Thanks for sharing! How many years of growth was that?
Wow! This is amazing! I like the video. I bought some purple yam at the farmers market and planted the head in a pot. I live in an apartment and I put it on my patio. Now the vine is growing and heading in the direction of the trees. Can I cut the vine to stop it from growing?
You can either plant an aerial bulbil, or a chunk of the underground yam, preferentially the top end of the yam. You can usually find these at grocery stores. Peel and cook until soft, use like a potato.
That is so cool!
I've been investigating subtropical and tropical veggies that produce a lot of food. I just discovered pigeon peas yesterday!
Now, I live in E. Orlando so can you tell me please, where exactly did you get your yam to start your plants and what month do you start them in?
Fresh and Fancy Fruit up on E. Colonial had two yams there the other day. They had a white yam that looked similar to a stretched coconut and then they had these yellow yam things that look like Jurassic Park! They were cut and the yams were all crooked and huge. I don't know if they cut off a tap root or what, but there were a lot of cut areas on the pile. I didn't pick them up because I was in a hurry and just came in to see what their meat specials were going to be for this week.
In another video showing Jamaican cooking, a lady had a yellow yam that she said if you touch it while peeling it that it makes you itch and you have to use paper towels to peel it??? Are all of these yams like that?
I saw in yet another video, the guy in Tampa said that the yam was slimy like okra until it is totally cooked. I hate okra.
I really, really want to grow these yams but I want to make sure I get a really good one and I am aware that there are differences.
All I have currently are a bunch of air potatoes that I've been trying to get rid of and when I first started searching online, I thought that I actually had a yam and am greatly disappointed, Boohoo!
Can this Yam plant climb a coconut tree? I will grow 4 yam next to coconut tree so can i make all 4 to climb the same coconut tree?
What do you eat? The aerial bulbil and the ground yam, which I had when I lived in Papua New Guinea in 1982/83 and really enjoyed it, or just the ground yam.
I wonder if Sweet Potato would climb like these fellows?
Do you know if yams only grow in the tropics Marabou?
Thanks for a cool, learning video... Note to self, use grow bags or have lots of plastic pots... Cheers Mate David.
Sweet potato vines will climb a trellis, yes. If they're allowed to grow along the ground they put down roots wherever they can. Growing them on a trellis forces the plant to put more effort into the original root.
I need a man like this .
I didn't know that yams grew on trees! I thought you had to dig them out of the ground.
Hodgepodge Buhgodge theyre vines.they need support from the tree.
Both grow on the vines and in the ground. All yams here like that.
How long did the yam grow from start to harvest? Nice Yam......
Are the aerial bulbils edible also?
If you will sown in underground then it will be very big in size
How long for this harverst, please?
What is name it's something to eat
yay like my name