Taro Patch: Taro Survivors
I installed a couple of patches one wet Spring with high hopes that maybe things would be different now. Well, they were for a while. The taro grew great. Then, the rain stopped, as it invariably does. And with the stop in rain came a rise in heat. Even with irrigation, the weeds would suck the soil dry and before long I decided to let the weeds shade the taro just to keep the soil and taro from being cooked right in the soil. Eventually the taro disappeared and that was that for last Summer’s experiment. Here is the tale of a surprising resurrection of these taro after a full year of dormancy in very hot, very dry and in the winter very cold soil.
http://taropatch.taroandti.com/2008/09/21/taro-survivors/
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