Search...
Home Subscribe
Pie
Home Subscribe
Recent topics Flagged topics Hot topics Best topics
Search...
Search within root crops Search permies
Advance search Google search
Register / Login
IC.org Steampunk airship invention--show off your invention! Better wood heat - rocket mass heaters Better Wood Heat DIY Rocket Mass Heater DVD Sepp Holzer 3 in 1 Documentaries Farming terracing aquaculture
  • Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
Better Wood Heat DIY Rocket Mass Heater DVD Full online Permaculture Design course and Appropriate Technology Course video skip the rat race permaculture bootcamp sketch of boots IC.org
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Nancy Reading
  • Carla Burke
  • r ranson
  • John F Dean
  • paul wheaton
  • Pearl Sutton
stewards:
  • Jay Angler
  • Liv Smith
  • Leigh Tate
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • Timothy Norton
gardeners:
  • thomas rubino
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • Maieshe Ljin

Elephant's Foot Yam Suckers - Should I remove them?

 
Russell Cook
Posts: 51
12
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hi all,

Here's a couple of pics of my elephant's foot yam. Any tips on whether removing two of the suckers would be a good idea?
IMG_20210124_101051_resized_20210129_085955378.jpg
elephants foot yam
IMG_20210125_152548_resized_20210129_085954612.jpg
[Thumbnail for IMG_20210125_152548_resized_20210129_085954612.jpg]
 
Nancy Reading
steward and tree herder
Posts: 8375
Location: Isle of Skye, Scotland. Nearly 70 inches rain a year
3972
4
I like...
transportation dog forest garden foraging trees books food preservation woodworking wood heat rocket stoves ungarbage
posted 4 weeks ago
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Russell Cook wrote:Hi all,

Here's a couple of pics of my elephant's foot yam. Any tips on whether removing two of the suckers would be a good idea?



I know this is an old thread, but I think those are a grass like weed not a sucker from the main plant - I guess you will have found out one way or another now!

How Permies works: https://permies.com/wiki/34193/permies-works-links-threads
My projects on Skye: The tree field, Growing and landracing, perennial polycultures, "Don't dream it - be it! "

 
Shake it tiny ad! Shake it!
Heat your home with the twigs that naturally fall of the trees in your yard
http://woodheat.net
reply
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
Boost this thread!
Similar Threads
More...