Yardwork surprises
We've had one or two nights of frost that damaged all of the vines and some flowers.
So cleanup begins with the ground vines that all of the leaves died and became sticky leaf magnets from the pin oaks...
and lo and behold
What should I find sticking out of the ground?
Best guess is that the red mass is from yellow green yam vines used for ground cover.
The blond mass is where we had black/purple yam vines.
They massed over an old tree ring and the ducks like the leaves...
Are they edible?
How should we "prepare" them?
Suggestions?
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The one on the left is 5.6 lbs
The one on the right is 5.8 lbs
When in doubt, boil and mash. Oh yeah and butter....
and that's exactly what ended up happening to the red monster which took a half an hour to chop down.
Good mashed with butter, better with cheese, lots of cheese, more butter and walnuts or pecans, lol.
probably not, for humans anyway. hell, the ducks haven't eaten them yet, what's that tell you...
Where do you live? Three Mile Island?
Believe it or not, I used to be able to see the lights of Limerick when I lived in PA
but that might not be 3 mile island.
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I guess the other Texas legend that every thing IS bigger in Texas might be true, lol.
I rode a train that went past TMI...twice.
That twitch in my left eye finally went away
If you don't plan to eat them, grind them up for mulch.
Weird. I thought they were mushrooms at first glance.
We sacrificed the first small red one to a steamer and then baked it in butter and garlic.
Except for a wee bit of tingling in my lips, tasted like potatoes
Are you okay?!!! Don't ever do that again! Little less experimentation, will you?
Just pulling legs CB
We just finished some of the White one - definitely more like a yam than a potatoe.
Next we take Greg's advise, boil and mash.
But we'll have mashed potatoes into next year, lol.
Ugh! You got me good! I'm so gullible! Though, I did think those lips were on a youngish placed man!
My suggestion will be when something erupts from the ground unrecognizable, and one cares more than to trash it, replant it and see if it can square itself away by the next iteration!
I looked up wild yams and none look like that...
So I checked parsnips and turnips and no, not like that either.
So then I googled wild root vegs and still nothing. Everything grows straight down.
Before I ate them, I would find out what they were. They might not be edible.
One look at his lip rules out edible.
Just a picture off the net Paula...
Definitely yams, all of the yellow green vines emanated from the top of the red one.
I left a few inches of yam/root on in and buried it in a different spot in the same tree ring.
We'll see what happens next year. I left some of the red yams in the ground for next season.
They say the leaves are good salad in AE Asia
but the vines supposedly are toxic to dogs and contain something similar to LSD.
You know how some people are they 'stake out' their stuff in your plot of ground (some times). The wind could have swept it up and over into a hole?