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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Chufa
  • Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:35:02 -0500

We frequently planted chufa as a food source for wild turkey, when I was a youngster growing up in UCLA(upper corner of lower Alabama), and my BIL still plants them from time to time.
I always liked the sweet coconut-like flavor of the tubers, and evidently, the turkey, deer, and racoons did as well.
Seed tubers were fairly expensive($3-$4/lb?), last time I priced any, but they're easy to grow - we'd just disc up a patch, broadcast the tubers, and disc 'em in. I'm sure dad applied some fertilizer, but I don't have a clue as to how much.

Lucky Pittman
USDA Cold Zone 6
AHS Heat Zone 7
Hopkinsville, KY




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