In this video, I show you how I grew Taro and Arrow Head in a muddy, boggy raised garden bed, and we harvest the crops to see how much food we get!
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These plants are both top of mind here in the far northern USA. We can treat taro/elephant ears/colocasia escualenta as a summer decorative plant, you dig them after a frost takes the leaves and store the tubers – really similar to dahlias. My tubers last year roughly doubled total volume just our short growning season.
The locally indigenous 'arrowroot' is harvested around now in the autumn, just before the freeze. The plant that grows here is also called wapato – sagittaria latifolia is most common specific species. It gets a little bigger than what you harvested, and is various shades from white to purple!
Love your choice of taro harvesting background music Mark.
What a nice start to my day, great video as always, thank you ❤️
Is arrow head the same as arrowroot? Perhaps known by different names in different countries? If it is, arrowroot is a good thickener and easier to process than creating corn starch. So, if you're looking to a potentially dismal future with even less available in stores, arrowroot would be a good one to grow.
That's what they grow in kuddy an mushy wet areas
Maybe the arrowroot isn’t as prolific because there are too many, close together?
Taro grows really well in wetland filters and spillovers for ponds running water adds moisture. A nice DIY project would be to get a piece of PVC pipe that's a bit taller then the bed itself cap the bottom of it drill holes all around it up to just below the soil level about 2inches apart. Then you can add a fitting to the top the hose screws onto, when you water it pushes the old water out from the bottom while adding new oxygenated water.
Thanks for yet another great video Mark. Boiling the Tarro and arrowhead along with the skin would make it easier to peel once done and will reduce wastage too. There are loads of recipes out there for Tarro including some desserts, pairs well with coconut.
Might as well use the bin to grow Molly fish and some little goldfish for protein for the chickens. When doing a bit of a water change for the bin you take said water and use it to water up your plants once a month. The molly fish eat algae and the little goldies produce plenty of nitrogen. Mollies also being live bearing they will birth and grow exponentially and make great feed (as you'll have to cull to keep space in the bin) There will obviously be better options than goldies, I use them as reference as they are hardy and can really be left alone. I live in Alaska and grow mainly indoors during our six winter months, but we keep black moor goldfish and dojo loaches in the house which we use the wastewater from to fertilize and consistently water our garage grow. We keep mollies in a separate brackish water tank (for ease of raising, fresh water is perfectly acceptable, it just allows fungus and algae growth, and we breed these for chicken feed) and though pretty and colorful, they breed exponentially, and they make up a great bulk of the protein our fowl need for the harsh winters in our climate.
Thanks for the video Mark. Hey what do you recommend to get rid of rust on beans. Cheers Mate
Keep the taro separate from each other and plant them about 6 inch’s down because unlike a carrot or potato’s that grow down under the soil the taro grow’s upward
i grow both in puerto rico, to get big tubers they need a lot of sun. the plant may not get as big but the tubers will. you aslo need to have a clean “seed” by removing all the eyes you see beneath the stem area.
Growing up in American Samoa I really took taro for granted. To me, a BBQ doesn't seem complete without it. In Samoa we'd make a sort of spinach dip with the taro leaves and coconut milk, called palusami. Palusami is delicious with taro, but I think it's best with some steaming hot breadfruit roasted in a fire pit.
Love the videos and the great insight and information you share here. Looking forward to the next one. Cheers!
Please check out that are both wet/boggy type TARO and dryland TARO. Both are grown in Hawai'i.
I just found I have rood aphids what is a good way to get rid of them?
I like the music
I grew dry taro once, I'm glad I got rid of it.
Taro leaves. Coconut milk. Seasoned. Boiled to a porriage. Add some citrus juice. Yum. Guam dish
and it also has more carbs than potato
dem popeye arms tho
Mmmmmmm, that looks so good, so does the Taro and Arrow Head.
Great video Mark. Can we see an update on the kitchen and renos please
Did you have issues with mosquitos breeding in there?