All Things Apios Americana

Hi,

Can anyone share some numbered selections from Blackmon's collection or perhaps a few that were sold by Okios (Carolina, Virigina etc). Would gladly pay for your time and help and shipping! Looking to get a few named/numbered varieties in my garden for sharing with some plant breeders interested in working with Apios.

Currently Have (can share samples):
#2138 (Nutty #2)
#1849
Treasure (Oikos)
Kennebec (Oikos)


Looking For:
LSU
#1972 (Simon)
#2127 (Nutty #3)
#1661
#2155
#2191
#2127

Oikos Selections
Carolinas
Nutty
Clusternut
Densituberous
Maine
Virgina


Thanks,
Adam
AdamKareem87@me.com

It was in my allotment garden before I rented it. I didn't know, but it showed up after some months (I started there in February). Because I did not know all plants growing in 'my new garden' it surprised me, this nice climber: it wanted to grow in the middle of a path! Luckily it wanted to grow at both sides of the path too. And in many other places (it's somewhat invasive, and here in the Netherlands it isn't native, so I need to be cautious ...).

Okay. So I had this climber climbing at the side of my new garden shed, and in a garden bed at the opposite side of the path. Coming back every new Spring. This year is the third year (of me renting this allotment garden and of the Apios plants coming back). It has beautiful flowers. But of course there has to be a 'yield' too. Difficult to find, those 'nuts' attached to the roots, deep in the ground!

Today I decided to go on a deep search. I dug up all I could find in the bed next to the path (not the one near the garden shed). Finally success! My first real 'American Groundnut', here you see it (with the small knife for scale):

Has anyone tried cutting back the vines during the growing season? Sometimes the weeds get out of hand and often I have them pots and they quickly grow crazy in a tangle, and often I have thought of hacking them back. Wonder how that would affect tuber production?  

Kevin Feinstein II wrote:Has anyone tried cutting back the vines during the growing season? Sometimes the weeds get out of hand and often I have them pots and they quickly grow crazy in a tangle, and often I have thought of hacking them back. Wonder how that would affect tuber production?  

I'd like to know too.
I 'inherited' this plant (these plants) in my rented allotment garden. The roots seem to spread under some square meters of garden beds and paths. The new stems popped up in different places during the season. So I often need to cut them back. But I don't know what this does to the roots underground ...

The deer frequently snack on the tender shoots on their way past. Ground nuts continue to multiply. This will be my second year of harvesting more than a taste. My patch is now 4 growing seasons old. But... The deer just do a trim, not a buzz cut.



From the inside of the fence, before the recent freeze killed them. Possibly August?

Adam Kareem wrote:Hi,

Can anyone share some numbered selections from Blackmon's collection or perhaps a few that were sold by Okios (Carolina, Virigina etc). Would gladly pay for your time and help and shipping! Looking to get a few named/numbered varieties in my garden for sharing with some plant breeders interested in working with Apios.

Currently Have (can share samples):
#2138 (Nutty #2)
#1849
Treasure (Oikos)
Kennebec (Oikos)


Looking For:
LSU
#1972 (Simon)
#2127 (Nutty #3)
#1661
#2155
#2191
#2127

Oikos Selections
Carolinas
Nutty
Clusternut
Densituberous
Maine
Virgina


Thanks,
Adam
AdamKareem87@me.com

Not sure if you're still searching for some of these, but I made a post with links to a bunch of different cultivars/varieties if you wanna take a look? Hopniss list Treasure for sure is on there, as I was able to find one site selling that one. The rest I still have to search around for, since Ive only seen them on Okios, or used for a breeding mix.

I grew ground nuts last year that I aquired from Interwoven Permaculture.  They are lsu improved, but not sure about specific variety.  Maybe some of you know what kind they have?  I would be willing to sell or trade with others here locally in the pnw for other perrenial veg/herbs that I want such as red sunchokes or kale or good king henry and the like.  They grew VERY well here in the pnw, overwelming the trelis I made for them.  They have died back since, even though we have barely froze here this winter.  I have not looked how they have done underground, but I noticed the aspasragus nearby also did very well, assuming from the nitrogen fixing nature of the groundnut.  I am looking forward to serving ground(ed) up nuts this year.