Taro (Colocasia esculenta) ia an important root crop in tropical and subtropical climates, but is also surprisingly hardy so that I can have it out in the garden the whole summer with temperaures close to zero. I’ve grown Taro as an attractive edible house plant for over 15 years and I harvest the edible corms about once a year!
Yesterday, we cooked and fried in olive oil the largest corm and served with salt and chili:
Some years we also eat the leaves, and my Nepalese friends taught me how to prepare them here: https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=6593 See more taro pictures from Malvik here: https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=5738 It’s sadly less easy to grow it as a house plant these days as greenflies have taken a taste for it :(
Several Alliums are extremely hardy and can stand green all winter even when exposed to temperatures under -20C. Similarly, young leaves of species that start to sprout in early spring as soon as the frost disappears near the surface have no problem with snow and frosts. Here are a few after yesterday’s snowfall!
Woke up to a new fall of snow which will continue for a couple of days when spring will arrive we’re told!
Alliums aren’t at all bothered by snow
Allium victorialis
Allium victorialis
Allium carinatum pulchellum
Allium stipitatum, persian shallots
Allium jesdianum
Allium pskemense
Allium victorialis
Allium nutans hybrid
New Alliums waiting for a place in the garden or in the Allium garden at the botanical gardens
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
