{"id":25130,"date":"2020-04-04T20:09:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T18:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=25130"},"modified":"2023-12-11T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T09:31:15","slug":"taro-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=25130","title":{"rendered":"Taro harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Taro (<em>Colocasia esculenta<\/em>) 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 temperatures close to zero. I&#8217;ve grown Taro as an attractive edible house plant for over 15 years and I harvest the edible corms about once a year!\u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25138\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1620547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1620547.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1620547-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, we cooked and fried in olive oil the largest corm and served with salt and chili:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-25130 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=25131'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940622.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940622.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940622-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940622-768x577.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940622-640x481.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/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=25132'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"792\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940667.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940667.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940667-300x297.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940667-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940667-768x760.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940667-640x634.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/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=25133'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"759\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940669.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/P1940669.jpg 800w, 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