Giant Yams in the CG.

My favorite CGer here planted the Giant Yam plants here when it was only less than a long ruler length. It took more than six months of growing to reach human height. Looks like it will still be a while before we can harvest the tubers. Meanwhile more baby yam plants seem to be sprouting out from the patch. I found out from the internet that the tubers are huge and they don't look anything like the ones we buy from the supermarket. I am so looking forward to this.

Update of Yam Harvest .... 29th Feb. 2012

Maple Leaf Shaped Sweet Potato Leaves

Got this from the Oct.GCS gathering and planted them as a ground cover next to the cucumber vines. Now the CG has four types of sweet potato leaves. These are ornamental sweet potato leaves. Not sure how big the root vege would grow under my neglect or care ... LOL

Radishes Galore

One of my CGer was so happy when she saw the white roots popping out of the soil and we have a whole planter of them. These were planted from seeds from what I heard. However the rains during the last couple of days are pretty damaging to the root veges here. Some of the matured ones are rotting away and we've got to wait till Saturday afternoon to harvest due to the internal CG competition judging.

Variegated Tapioca New Location

At the new location, the variegated tapiocas have settled well and are producing new leaves and getting bushier too. On the same plot they have pretty leaves for neighbours :-)

Variegated Tapioca Update

The leaves have grown out nicely and how I love the variegated leaves. They sure perk up this dull little corner at the back of the CG.

Variegated Tapioca

I got the stem cuttings from a GCS member. The leaves look beautiful and very ornamental. They also produce a root vege which is smaller in size when compared to the common tapioca. My neighbour and I will look forward to the day when we can see more leaves in the stems. They are growing pretty well too!

Three Times Sweet Potato Leaves

A couple of elderly ladies in the CG love to grow this. They will lovingly weed it, water it and put compost on their planter beds. I can see that they are regularly harvested for consumption.

There are three kinds of sweet potato leaves grown in the CG. The palm shaped leaves and the heart shaped leaves which have filled the planter beds. There's also the purple heart shaped leaves which my neighbour is trying to grow.

I ever bought sweet potato leaves from the supermarket and stir-fried them with garlic. My dh and I couldn't stand the mucilage layer that came with it after the leaves were cooked. I guess some just loved the way the cooked vege tasted. For the moment I don't see these ladies going gaga over the root vege that's supposed to come with growing sweet potatoes. I would love to get my hands on the root vege though and make sweet potato soup!