I like your stuff. My grandparents, especially my maternal grandmother knew how to grow all kinds of plants and what the uses were and of course how to prepare them. Wished I had paid more attention. Now I'm starting to teach my grandchildren and your posts are proving invaluable. Please keep up the good work. Are you a professional teacher? If not you soon will be when those commercials show up! And I'm betting they will. Thanks again.
Immediately subscribed. It's rare day that a youtuber teaches me something new in a subject I'm nerdy about. I had never heard of A. priceana. Pleeaaase make more videos once things green up this spring. Have a goodn' !
Joe, you should try to construct a large hugelkultur raised bed with plenty of woody material inside. I built a huge one with a somewhat concave top surface to encourage more rain collection. A friend gave me some Apios americana and it took off, growing many stems. It seems to really like the hugel bed. Mine has large diameter tree sections, branches, horse manure with sawdust, fresh wood chips and semi-composted leaf mulch along with soil. Lots of mushrooms dot the surface telling me it has sufficient moisture inside. The woody material will store water as they rot and if the trunk sections are large enough, they will last 20+ years.
Good sir, Love your stuff, did you know Henry David Thoreau? He wrote on apios. "Digging one day for fishworms, I discovered the ground-nut (Apios tuberosa) on its string, the potato of the aborigines, a sort of fabulous fruit, which I had begun to doubt if I had ever dug and eaten in childhood, as I had told, and had not dreamed it. I had often since seen its crumpled red velvety blossom supported by the stems of other plants without knowing it to be the same. Cultivation has well-nigh exterminated it. It has a sweetish taste, much like that of a frost-bitten potato, and I found it better boiled than roasted. This tuber seemed like a faint promise of Nature to rear her own children and feed them simply here at some future period. In these days of fatted cattle and waving grain-fields this humble root, which was once the totem of an Indian tribe, is quite forgotten, or known only by its flowering vine; but let wild Nature reign here once more, and the tender and luxurious English grains will probably disappear before a myriad of foes, and without the care of man the crow may carry back even the last seed of corn to the great cornfield of the Indian's God in the southwest, whence he is said to have brought it; but the now almost exterminated ground-nut will perhaps revive and flourish in spite of frosts and wildness, prove itself indigenous, and resume its ancient importance and dignity as the diet of the hunter tribe. Some Indian Ceres or Minerva must have been the inventor and bestower of it; and when the reign of poetry commences here, its leaves and string of nuts may be represented on our works of art." -Walden
I just bought a bunch of Apios Americana seeds. I do have a small stream/pond that runs through my property, but it has heavy clay soil. Where would be a better place to plant these? You say you plant them right into your garden .What kind of soil do you prepare for it? Also, I am in zone 8. Thank you!
I like your stuff. My grandparents, especially my maternal grandmother knew how to grow all kinds of plants and what the uses were and of course how to prepare them. Wished I had paid more attention. Now I'm starting to teach my grandchildren and your posts are proving invaluable. Please keep up the good work. Are you a professional teacher? If not you soon will be when those commercials show up! And I'm betting they will. Thanks again.
Great vids, very knowledgeable, short and well presented. Keep em coming!
Immediately subscribed. It's rare day that a youtuber teaches me something new in a subject I'm nerdy about. I had never heard of A. priceana. Pleeaaase make more videos once things green up this spring. Have a goodn' !
Joe, you should try to construct a large hugelkultur raised bed with plenty of woody material inside. I built a huge one with a somewhat concave top surface to encourage more rain collection. A friend gave me some Apios americana and it took off, growing many stems. It seems to really like the hugel bed. Mine has large diameter tree sections, branches, horse manure with sawdust, fresh wood chips and semi-composted leaf mulch along with soil. Lots of mushrooms dot the surface telling me it has sufficient moisture inside. The woody material will store water as they rot and if the trunk sections are large enough, they will last 20+ years.
I LOVE THIS VINE! it's beautiful, bears tuber, bean and i read somewhere it produces a fruit -- neither bean nor tuber is considered fruit.
Botanically speaking, a bean is in fact a fruit.
Do you have any books on wild forage? Would love to read it if you do. I want to start my own forest garden some day. Thanks!
Very beautiful video. Where can I get seeds (beans)?
Will it go well with sunchokes?
Where do I buy the seeds at?
Thanks for the information! --- Clark
Thanks! Great info
Good sir, Love your stuff, did you know Henry David Thoreau? He wrote on apios. "Digging one day for fishworms, I discovered the ground-nut (Apios tuberosa) on its string, the potato of the aborigines, a sort of fabulous fruit, which I had begun to doubt if I had ever dug and eaten in childhood, as I had told, and had not dreamed it. I had often since seen its crumpled red velvety blossom supported by the stems of other plants without knowing it to be the same. Cultivation has well-nigh exterminated it. It has a sweetish taste, much like that of a frost-bitten potato, and I found it better boiled than roasted. This tuber seemed like a faint promise of Nature to rear her own children and feed them simply here at some future period. In these days of fatted cattle and waving grain-fields this humble root, which was once the totem of an Indian tribe, is quite forgotten, or known only by its flowering vine; but let wild Nature reign here once more, and the tender and luxurious English grains will probably disappear before a myriad of foes, and without the care of man the crow may carry back even the last seed of corn to the great cornfield of the Indian's God in the southwest, whence he is said to have brought it; but the now almost exterminated ground-nut will perhaps revive and flourish in spite of frosts and wildness, prove itself indigenous, and resume its ancient importance and dignity as the diet of the hunter tribe. Some Indian Ceres or Minerva must have been the inventor and bestower of it; and when the reign of poetry commences here, its leaves and string of nuts may be represented on our works of art." -Walden
I just bought a bunch of Apios Americana seeds. I do have a small stream/pond that runs through my property, but it has heavy clay soil. Where would be a better place to plant these? You say you plant them right into your garden .What kind of soil do you prepare for it? Also, I am in zone 8. Thank you!
How would one be able to obtain some seeds or tubers of Price's Groundnut? I live in Western PA and would love to grow this.
Hi does anyone know if apios americana seeds need to be stratified before planting? thanks!
Rip joe thanks for the on ground plant iq
very interesting. thank you sir
Thank you
Joe arent you worried about
Hybridising?
Thladiantha dubia is another great root vegetable
Iam india that tree is available
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Isn't a peanut a legume.?? Not a nut either, right?
It sure is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut