permaculture

[Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>]

In my personal experience Northern New Hampshire (north of the White 
Mountains) and, I suspect, further north. It's been said that if not for 
the Andean potatoes, we'd all be eating improved varieties of ground 
nut. Hector Black who started Hidden Springs Nursery trialed many of 
them at one time and may carry some.

Keith (NC)

sustain_ability@123mail.org wrote:

> How far north does it grow?
> George (Canada)
>
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:31:45 -0500, "Keith Johnson"
> <keithdj@mindspring.com> said:
>  
>
> > Cornucopia lists 10 cultivars of ground nut and goes further to say that
> > the sweet starchy tubers are eaten raw, boiled, fried, roasted, or
> > otherwise perpared like patatoes. They can be added to soups, stews, and
> > casseroles, or mashed and used in breads. I've eaten them raw and cooked
> > and have grown them and harvested wild ones. I'd start with some of the
> > named cultivars first if I wanted to grow them. One of my clients has
> > them growing in her highbush blueberries, though I'd probably let them
> > crawl on something else like ornamentals. The floweres are fragrant and
> > pea-like followed by seedpods. The tuber is also a propagation unit. It
> > grows wild over most of the eastern US, mostly growing near streams.
> >
> >    
>
>  

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