[NAFEX] apios americana
Douglas Woodard
dwoodard at becon.org
Fri Mar 26 01:14:37 EDT 2010
Melissa, I would put it in a spot which is reliably damp, and let it
explore the moisture gradient, which it will. Be prepared for it to wander.
Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Melissa Kacalanos wrote:
> 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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