{"id":18443,"date":"2018-07-09T22:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T20:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18443"},"modified":"2018-07-09T22:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T20:30:04","slug":"monster-spring-beauty-tuber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18443","title":{"rendered":"Monster spring beauty tuber!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was transplanting some Allium canadense bulbs today and disturbed this large spring beauty (Claytonia virginica) tuber only just below the surface! I&#8217;ve tried growing this species from different sources and in different parts of the garden, but it&#8217;s only in this shady place has it grown well, sourced from a woman in Marathon, Wisconsin in 2004! It has been spreading slowly in recent years and is totally hardy! So this tuber could have taken 14 years growing to this size! Must have a taste this autumn!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-18443 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18444'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1840883.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18444\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1840883.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1840883-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1840883-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-18444'>\n\t\t\t\tThe tubers are known as firy spuds and  measured in at 7-8 cm long! According to Sam Thayer they are &#8220;far superior to potatoes, softer and mildly sweet&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18445'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1840885.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1840885.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1840885-251x300.jpg 251w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1840885-300x359.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18446'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/32294045_10156010890780860_20132745099345920_n.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/32294045_10156010890780860_20132745099345920_n.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/32294045_10156010890780860_20132745099345920_n-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/32294045_10156010890780860_20132745099345920_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-18446'>\n\t\t\t\tThis picture of the edible flowers was taken in mid-May this year! Spring leaves can also be eaten!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was transplanting some Allium canadense bulbs today and disturbed this large spring beauty (Claytonia virginica) tuber only just below the surface! I&#8217;ve tried growing this species from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[1177,680],"class_list":["post-18443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tubers","tag-claytonia-virginica","tag-spring-beauty"],"views":2593,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18447,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443\/revisions\/18447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}