[NAFEX] apios americana
Melissa Kacalanos
mijwiz at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 25 17:49:52 EDT 2010
Donna,
I'd like to try apios, after all this discussion about it, but it seems that the nurseries that sell improved varieties are sold out for this spring, and only wild-type, unimproved kinds are for sale. What's your LSU cultivar like? How does it compare to the wild ones, which I read can have inconveniently small tubers? If your cultivar is significantly better than those, could I buy a tuber off you? I'd like a tuber from the original plant, not from a seedling, if it's possible to tell the difference.
I know better than to plant it in my garden, don't worry. How much water does it like exactly? There's a squelchy part of my lawn, near a stream, that it might like. I could plant in anywhere from the jewelweed patch, which is quite wet, to the merely damp lawn.
Melissa
--- On Thu, 3/25/10, Kieran and/or Donna <holycow at frontiernet.net> wrote:
From: Kieran and/or Donna <holycow at frontiernet.net>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] apios americana
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 8:55 AM
Michele,
About 13 years ago I got a
postcard in the mail that said, "Dear SSE member, would you like to buy some
Apios?" It said they were from the LSU breeding program, and I got 4
tubers for $20. I certainly got my money's worth. They have not
disappointed us, though at times they have frightened us, much like the
sunchokes and the bamboo. I take that back, they are not nearly as
frightening as the bamboo.
I am intrigued that someone said
they don't make seeds up north. That implies that Apios is another one of
the native food producers that the native Americans took north. Donna
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