{"id":30703,"date":"2022-11-20T11:19:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T10:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30703"},"modified":"2022-11-20T11:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T10:19:32","slug":"freezing-wapato-and-chinese-arrowhead-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30703","title":{"rendered":"Freezing Wapato and Chinese Arrowhead harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I attended the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival in Wisconsin in September 2019, I was lucky to be able to attend Sam Thayer&#8217;s Wetland Plant Hike along the Mississippi during which the highlight was the demonstration of wapato harvest. Look out for the video I took that day in a post in the next few days. Earlier this week found me harvesting my own wapato, grown in large tubs in the garden&#8230;.an altogether more invigorating experience, the gardener&#8217;s equivalent to winter fjord bathing, as the water temperature was only about 1C (and the following day the water was frozen); I had planned to try locating the tubers by feet the next day, but (fortunately) the thick ice made that difficult (OK, I&#8217;m a wimp as I could have broken through the ice with a pick axe ;))<br \/>I&#8217;m growing both <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">North American wapato (<em>Sagittaria latifolia<\/em>; picture) and <\/span>Chinese a<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">rrowhead tubers (<em>Sagittaria trifolia<\/em>) which were originally shop bought.\u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30707 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1066025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1066025.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1066025-300x252.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1066025-768x645.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1066025-640x538.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30708 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1066024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1066024.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1066024-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1066024-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/P1066024-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I attended the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival in Wisconsin in September 2019, I was lucky to be able to attend Sam Thayer&#8217;s Wetland Plant Hike along the [&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":[261,2448],"tags":[3251,4739,3345,4740,4738,4737,669,748],"class_list":["post-30703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tubers","category-water-plants","tag-chinese-arrowhead","tag-ice-harvest","tag-midwest-wild-harvest-festival","tag-mississippi","tag-sagittaria-latifolia","tag-sagittaria-trifolia","tag-samuel-thayer","tag-wapato"],"views":2126,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30703","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=30703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30709,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30703\/revisions\/30709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}