Just for now some images of my Yams, and I don't mean Sweet Potatoes or Oca or Taro but big, gnarly Dioscorea
Yams with their beautiful foliage and colourful or enormous tubers dug during
winter. I'll write more fully about them soon because I think they have
great potential down here in Melbourne (at latitude 38 degrees south) as an
ornamental plant and as a bonus source of carbs when the weather goes
grim... 
Enjoyed your talk on edible gardens last weekend. Where can I source some of the plants featured there and on this blog. I'm in the western suburbs of Melbourne.
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Hi Michael, sorry for slow reply. The best source of tehse plants is Green Harvest based at Malaney in Queensland, www.greenharvest.com.au. Also at Malaney is Isabella Shipard whose website is http://herbs-to-use.com/. Both do mail order of plants, tubers and seeds. I'll also have some of these plants on sale through Pepper Tree place, cheers Chris
ReplyDeleteHi, can you please please tell me where you get your dioscorea plant from? I would love to grow some in my garden, thank you. Cheers, Alice
ReplyDeleteHi Alice, I bought them from Green Harvest based in Queensland, see greenharvest.com.au, cheers Chris
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