Very nice. I planted three Apios roots this year and believe they died out. I suspect they didn't handle our heat and competition with Bermuda grass.

George
Tahlequah, OK

wild forager- If you are interested in making a trade for one or two of your small tubers, let me know. I'm ordering seeds of a few native plants with edible tubers this fall but Apios is hard to find. I have a lot of Insuk's Wang Kong beans, and other pole beans, too. hemnancy@yahoo.com

Nancy

Wild Forager, those are some big mother tubers! Wonder how much bigger they could get?

What growing conditions do they like? I've read they grow near water, did they need alot of watering?

What were the beans like? Were they small and and almost round? Do you have any idea how long the seeds stay viable?

Did you taste any of the pods? What did you think?

Happyday, those are indeed large tubers, but I have read that they can get much larger. This is a lightly cultivated strain, and the documentation said "basketball size" tubers were possible. I'll have to see that to believe it.

As for the pods, I don't know. Mine have never pollinated, and once I managed to trigger the complex flower to pollinate itself but the pod died of heat exposure or something before it grew very much. I believe there is some sort of swamp fly that is the main pollinator but no one knows for sure.

And yes, they like lots of water. I just made sure to water mine enough that the top soil looked moist whenever possible. They can't be overwatered like some garden plants, and they can also tolerate dry conditions for a bit.

The conditions that I think are likely to be best are moist, sandy loam type of environments with plenty of sun. But they do seem to be tolerant of adverse conditions.

Cool. Groundnut is on my acquisition list.