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  • From: "BarbaraJ" <jbmckillip AT mesanetworks.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pie Pumpkins and "yams"
  • Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:54:31 -0700

You need to make sure the link has the last parenthesis, but wow! those are some serious vegetables! Huge. Now I understand the difference completely.
Barb
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pie Pumpkins and "yams"


Here's a link with a picture of the crop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yam_(vegetable)

When I took International Food Crops as an undergrad, we discussed the difference between sweet potatoes and yams. In the case of yams, when they are grown in Africa, their native land, they grow up to 5' long and often weigh 50-80 lb. Are you sure that's what you saw?

Bill
William H Shoemaker, UI-Crop Sciences
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
535 Randall Road St Charles, IL 60174
630-584-7254; FAX-584-4610
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