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Eating Colocasia

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Now is the time to harvest your colocasia for your dinner. (I can't remember if I've posted this before)

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:ahhh!: :ahhh!: :ahhh!: :ahhh!: It like posting a video on how to BBQ the cat :ahhh!: :lol:

If I want mash, I use potatoes, as they don't look as good in the garden :wink:
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I was looking for means of propagating Ipomoea batatas (Blackie and Lime green) the other day, and most of the talk was "can you get them big enough to eat the tubers" ... I had much the same though: why not just grow Sweet Potatoes? :P
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Kristen wrote:I was looking for means of propagating Ipomoea batatas (Blackie and Lime green) the other day, and most of the talk was "can you get them big enough to eat the tubers" ... I had much the same though: why not just grow Sweet Potatoes? :P
Well they are Sweet potatoes in a fashion. Cuttings should work?
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Yorkshire Kris wrote:Well they are Sweet potatoes in a fashion. Cuttings should work?
Indeed (I've taken cuttings :) ) but folk were focused on the tubers being rather small to eat etc. Surely it would be better to grow Sweet Potatoes designed for eating, and keep the ornamental ones for showing (or flog the surplus on Ebay). I didn't get the eating part ... but I'm at the stage of being keen to have more plants next year; if I had a glut I might be looking for other outcomes than "compost" !
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The eddoes I bought from the supermarket have produced rhizomes around 4x the size of the parent rhizomes. I am going to eat them and maybe buy a couple more small ones next year. :D
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Personally Vag, I'd grow the biggies and buy some smaller ones to eat. Bigger tubers = more food reserves to grow big....maybe?
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flounder wrote:Personally Vag, I'd grow the biggies and buy some smaller ones to eat. Bigger tubers = more food reserves to grow big....maybe?

Yes an no. The bigger the rhizome the more chance of multiple growth points which doesn't mean bigger plants.
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Don't spoil it for me Kris.! I was imagining a couple of giant leaves, rather than a multitude of nanos
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But I must eat the ones I grew! :D

Besides, the leaves made it to about 900mm in one season anyway. :D
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Asians cook the leaves as well, a snack called Patra.
Incredibly long winded way to make small morsels......
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I believe they eat Thai Giant stems and Hostas in Japan.
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Couldn't eat someone called Collie :ahhh!:
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