I normally dig out a hole of roughly one cubic foot and fill it with grass clippings, coconut husk fiber, leaves and kitchen waste mixed with the dug out soil. Then I plant a decent piece of dormant yam in it. The foliage grows as a wine, and I usually plant the yam near a tree so that the wine can crawl up the tree. When the leaves start dying off in the winter it is ready for harvest.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017
A big ass yam..........
I planted some greater yams, Dioscorea alata last April. They are usually planted in April and are harvested from December- January. Harvested one last Sunday, it turned out to be 5.7 kilos.
I normally dig out a hole of roughly one cubic foot and fill it with grass clippings, coconut husk fiber, leaves and kitchen waste mixed with the dug out soil. Then I plant a decent piece of dormant yam in it. The foliage grows as a wine, and I usually plant the yam near a tree so that the wine can crawl up the tree. When the leaves start dying off in the winter it is ready for harvest.
I normally dig out a hole of roughly one cubic foot and fill it with grass clippings, coconut husk fiber, leaves and kitchen waste mixed with the dug out soil. Then I plant a decent piece of dormant yam in it. The foliage grows as a wine, and I usually plant the yam near a tree so that the wine can crawl up the tree. When the leaves start dying off in the winter it is ready for harvest.
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