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root crops

All about crops that we grow for the roots - mostly biannuals like carrots and radish, but if you dig for it it might belong here.

Welcome to the new root crops forum - let's dig it!

root crops Forum at permies

seeds and breeding

Florida Betony aka Stachys Floridana aka The-Plant-I'm-Desperately-Tryig-To-Get-Tubers-For

7 months ago 14 replies 2 2

root crops

Growing daikon radishes

7 months ago 18 replies 2 6

medicinal herbs

The Humble Chicory

7 months ago 4 replies 1 3

cooking

Can we make sugar from skirret root?

8 months ago 24 replies 1 8 12

food preservation

How to preserve sweet potatoes, if you grow way too many.

8 months ago 25 replies 12 16

Replacing crackers in my diet

8 months ago 1 reply 1

Taro harvest from aquaponic system.

9 months ago 4 replies 1 1

great white north

Oca, Ulluco, Yacon, Mashua sources (Ontario)

9 months ago 8 replies

resources: seeds, plants, honey, consulting, etc.

Looking for Canadian Source of Mashua and Yacon tubers. And also neem plants or fresh seed.

9 months ago 22 replies 1

Vidalia onions

10 months ago 4 replies

resources: seeds, plants, honey, consulting, etc.

Chufa / nutsage / tiger nut

10 months ago 0 replies

split merge skirret

10 months ago 0 replies

root crops

Roots in a hugel

10 months ago 7 replies 4 3

gear

Fodder chopper

10 months ago 1 reply

Anybody growing Dr. Shane Simonsen’s hybrid Canna tubers?

10 months ago 6 replies

food preservation

Sweet potatoes how to grow and store them (input please)

10 months ago 25 replies 3 17

Tasted Fresh Beets for the First Time!

10 months ago 15 replies 5 5

root crops

anyone growing dahlias to eat?

10 months ago 26 replies 12 17

root crops

Chufa Misadventure-AKA Nutsedge

11 months ago 41 replies [ 1, 2 ] 17 10

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

11 months ago 1 reply 2

food as medicine

in praise of the dandelion

11 months ago 145 replies [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ] 6 25 39

root crops

Are all cultivars of Colocasia esculenta (taro) edible?

11 months ago 23 replies 1 2 1

organic

Beet leaf looks burned--was perfect this morning!

11 months ago 4 replies 2

plants

Sweet potato leaf weirdness

11 months ago 9 replies 4 2

root crops

sweetening yacon and storing crowns

11 months ago 8 replies

food preservation

Pithy radishes can be redeemed by pickling

11 months ago 8 replies 2

soil

soil building with daikon radish

11 months ago 73 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 12 5

gardening for beginners

Planting slightly crushed up radish seed pods from last year

11 months ago 2 replies 4 3

root crops

Enormous Turnip/Rutabaga plea/offer (and other Giant Vegetables)

11 months ago 10 replies 1 4

cascadia

Cowlitz Camas Planting Day in Early December

11 months ago 8 replies 1 1 5

perennial vegetables

Does anyone grow chinese or other yams?

11 months ago 28 replies

food preservation

canning sunchokes

11 months ago 6 replies 1 8 3

cooking

Edible Canna/ Canna Edulis

1 year ago 8 replies 1

perennial vegetables

Let's grow perennial root vegetables

1 year ago 46 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 4 12

cooking

Curing, storing, and cooking sunchokes aka jerusalem artichokes

1 year ago 35 replies 1 5

mulch

Mulch and sweet potatoes

1 year ago 9 replies 1

root crops

fall sown parsnips and carrots?

1 year ago 38 replies 3 14

gardening for beginners

Any tips for harvesting Jerusalem Artichokes?

1 year ago 3 replies 1 3

food preservation

Root veg storage in the high desert.

1 year ago 0 replies

perennial vegetables

sweet potato propagation and harvest!!!

1 year ago 91 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 1 63 28

Growing Chinese yam (Dioscorea Batatas) HORIZONTALLY

1 year ago 9 replies 2 7 1

small farm

Growing/farming Burdock

1 year ago 9 replies 1 1

perennial vegetables

Lathyrus tuberosus vs Apios Americana

1 year ago 12 replies

seeds and breeding

Landrace Carrots

1 year ago 3 replies 1

cooking

Recipe Search: Rutabagas

1 year ago 18 replies 4 11
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