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Last year i cut one in 6 pieces and planted willy nilly under trees and on a fencepost. Never watered nor fertilized. Every one grew and gave me medium sized roots. Ate all but two, they kept all winter, now planted again everywhere😊

@evelynkorjack2126

3 жыл бұрын

P.s. i live in central florida piney wood/desert. Got the original yam at publix.

@henryvalero9235

3 жыл бұрын

@@evelynkorjack2126From Lil Giant Great! Friend hoping have a homestead in West Florida. Are you saying you got tubular roots, or a bulbous beet-shaped “tube” from the one-year planting?

Try an african market or jamaican market they'll have them too if you aren't in the south

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Good advice.

Publix produce manager: "I don't know what the heck is going on but I can't keep these yams in stock all of a sudden!"

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

That's hilarious.

@suburbanyute340

2 жыл бұрын

oh yeah, and then they make a bigger order for the next year and none of them sell because everyone is just propagating the ones they already bought lmao

@honeybee52000

Жыл бұрын

​@David The Good ​how do we tell the difference between the alotta and the deiscoria? (I didn't see a link for this video)

I dug one up today, 3.2 lbs. in central Florida been a couple years since planting. Ha, bought it at Walmart, labeled yellow name. Hopefully, thanks to your video I can get a larger harvest when I replant. Thank you and to Rachel for great cooking tips.

I always smile with the Oceans11 water fountain opening intro.

@OfftoShambala

3 жыл бұрын

Me too lol

Haha, I laughed at the LITERAL green thumb! 😂

I live in Central Florida and have been looking for these yams. Hopefully Publix has them near me!

@critterjon4061

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know if this is the case where you live but I know you can find these just growing in the woods throughout all most all of the state

@wonderforadventseason8128

3 жыл бұрын

Thifty's!

@wonderforadventseason8128

3 жыл бұрын

Most of the onea growing wild are the non edible air potato 😟

Thanks for the yam lesson. It was your books that encouraged me to even try gardening in West Central Florida. So far, I can grow yard long beans but not much success at anything else.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Marvelous. Yard-long beans are very forgiving.

@yophotoman

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood I've been sending links to some of your videos to my daughter-in-law. She's working on an advanced degree in horticulture at U of M and an avid gardener.

Nice ! I’m gonna keep my eye out on one to grow just for funsies to see if it will like sustained 115 degree summer temps!

Next year I might be able to share a ton of varities with you. Growing like 10 different species of yams. Hope for bulbils!

@diannevaldez8670

Жыл бұрын

Derek Clawson, were you successful at growing the yams? If so are you interested in selling some? Please let me know. I'm interested in buying some. Thank you.

Thank you! I'm always looking for new perennials for my food forest. Just bought 5 Japanese yam tubers on Etsy for $10.

Learn something every day. I always thought yams were sweet potatoes! Thanks for sharing this info. I think I may try my hand at growing some. 🍠 🌱

@henryvalero9235

3 жыл бұрын

From Lil Giant No. Yams are NOT sweet potatoes. BUT the yams I eat are orange. Grocery stores do not know the difference between yams and sweet potatoes. So they label them, in general, either way. Yams are much more moist when you cook them. What this video host is planting is obviously a different plant than what I am accustomed to eating. Another COMMENT here said one store labeled what they purchased as “yellow name.” The video host is careful to use the latin name for clear identification.

Thank you Mr. Plinkett for teaching us about farming

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

THE Pro-TA-GONE-IST

Great video David 😁 Gonna have a look out for some next time I’m shopping, I really wanna grow yams 😁

Been to two Publixes and both had them :) I bought up almost all from both.

Thanks David!! Loved this! Just realized I had missed the tomato video. 😳 I’ll pop over and watch that while seeding some trays. 😊

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome.

So i went on vacation to panama city beach, florida this week. Im in the camper at the rv park right now typing this. Ive been to 8 Publix stores from Lynn Haven to Sandestin. Only ONE of the stores had any yams or ‘name’ in stock. Its your fault, David the Good! They had yuka, malanga, jicama, other rooty things in stock, but only one store had ONE lonely name root sitting in an otherwise empty tray. Youve caused a rush on them, lol. The produce worker was bewildered about it all going out of stock. I bought my one name root and ran to the parking lot like i had found rare treasure. Will take it back home to louisiana for planting. (I grabbed yuca and moringa and jicama to try growing, too). It was a fun quest for vacation week!

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Ha!

Very nice ash method I'll be using that!

We grow Ube from the Philippines. Best wishes Bob.

I've got a temperate dioscorea in the ground this year... not sure which species for sure yet since it wasn't labeled. I had one last year that died in our drought because we didn't have water yet. Did make some awesome soil where it rotted in place, though. Didn't know you could split the root that much. I only have small aerial tubers this year, not a full-sized yam.

Great video, thanks.

Also, I totally thought that was the music playing at the store until I realized it was one of your songs and that probably just didn't make sense.

@lachlannicholls827

3 жыл бұрын

Would be more wholesome than what they usually play, think about it. "oooohh tomatoees, the vegetable fruiit".

@stonedapefarmer

3 жыл бұрын

@@lachlannicholls827 I was gonna say, no complaints here.

I can’t concentrate I’m still drooling over those heirloom tomatoes in the beginning 😂 (ps got the epic tomatoes book today yippee!) we need a live!

@robinlillian9471

3 жыл бұрын

Considering the time of year, I doubt they taste all that great. They were probably ripened after being picked like the rest.

@henryvalero9235

3 жыл бұрын

@@robinlillian9471 From Lil Giant per the video publish date it was March harvest date. Of course, I have found publish dates to be unreliable. Do you know WHEN these plants should be harvested? A previous comment states they stored all winter. Of course, I am sure that was uncut. I do not doubt that one or two persons would need to discover a way to store a 20-40 pound yam after it was cut open. I am not anticipating having refrigeration in a crisis. This would probably require a root cellar at very minimum and some container/wrap to protect for a few days. Survival, yes. Also messy unless you have a lot of people to eat it up. Perhaps could be dried? Canned? (Inconvenient over a campfire.) I am not set up yet. Doubt would have more than the barest essentials. Only have around 18 months to prepare. Will definitely be incomplete. Piece of land biggest obstacle, then cooking/storage. Wonder if his book contains those kinds of instructions for this “name yam.”

Your Publix sure has some interesting stuff for sale. I haven't been in a Publix in years, but they never had anything like that when I was there. Probably because none of the customers from the local senior village would have bought any.

I WENT to Publix...I FOUND those. But didn’t buy one because I didn’t know how to cut it! Now I found your video! Thanks from Cape Coral, FL

I live further north, so I'm not sure they'll grow here but I do have sweet potatoes so I'll try that kind next year

Garden looking good already. Ten times better than the experimental beds. Going to be lush this summer! This reminded me about your Publix song. Maybe you could play it again? ☺️

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. And good idea.

This was one of the more intriguing crops you wrote about in Grow or Die. I've been noticing them at the stores and I may try it in some odd corner of the property this year, hopefully 7B isn't too far north for these to do their thing. Ive already bitten off a ton with our first real garden this year so needless to say it'll be tested out as a set and forget somewhere type of crop, haha Cheers brah, it's good to see you back in the states again. Hopefully we will cross paths someday.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

It is worth a try.

@MalkiZee

3 жыл бұрын

Count your wins in the garden no matter how small. Next year will be better.

Started the quest for terra petra, now I'm definitely going to Publix this weekend.

@belindashields1912

3 жыл бұрын

The quest is the answer .

@koicaine1230

2 жыл бұрын

I did Terra Preta this year but apparently not enough because I just dug a new hole in my garden expecting to see some beautiful black soil and was heartbroken to discover that it's still sand :( I'm going on 3 years of trying to turn it into soil :( Ugh!!!!

Thank you for sharing💐😊

Came for the yams, stayed for the beats.

The Publix stores here in SW Florida don't seem to have the yams. Will try Bravo and some independent grocers.

@g-man9684

2 жыл бұрын

Did you find the yams in SW FL?

Awesome 👌, awesome 👌teaching video on yam planting.

cool. I grew some last year

Yes, real Yams ... Green thumbs 😃

If you can tolerate the the sticky pokey thorns there are smilax in Florida. They tend to have LARGE root nodules sometimes you need a wheel barrow to haul them. You wouldn't want to plant them in your yard, but you can dig them up in the woods in sandy soil.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

They are edible but man, lots of fibers!

This summer I might try to grow this plant in Germany. Dioscorea alata. But may be it is too cold here?

I get marker surprises too from my kiddos. 😂 nice hand

Hilarious skit at the beginning and the end!

God bless y’all

These are pretty cool any idea how well these would work growing in something like the potato bags? We have shallow dense clay so I was thinking basically setting up a 2w x 2d x 4h small raised bed or barrel/trash can at the base of a tree. also does the ash trick work with regular Andean potatoes? For those who don't know potatoes originate in south america, look up true potato seeds for some super interesting reading.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

They do great in bags and containers.

OH BABY they could play this song at PUBLIX and you'll be rollin along with your cart full of dioscoreaceae...

Darn, went fishing and missed the premier. At least I caught a few. :p

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Fishing is always a good excuse.

What time of year do I plant them? Zone 9b, Souteast Texas. And would they do okay under a huge pecan tree? Or would the vine interfere with production of Pecans?

Awesome 👍

I wonder if jicama would do well in your region.

Hi Dave. Where in the Caribbean were you living? I'm from Trinidad and love your videos.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Grenada, next door to you.

@insaf_

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood niceee. On a good day I'd spot you.

Thumbs up every time

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

You are generous - thank you.

I wonder if wood ash would work on other seats?

From Lil Giant I do not have ashes. Would have to 1) buy a wood-burning stove 2) stock wood supply, which involves a) hiring someone to cut down trees (a limited supply of them) or b) foraging for wood in a crisis when others will be doing same thing in a solar minimum crisis. Can you use the ashes from a coal furnace? Can you use anything else?

@bevfitzsimmonds3382

2 жыл бұрын

You could be on the lookout for someone nearby using a woodstove...l'm sure they have more ash than they know what to do with. Also, scouting out a camping/picnic ground, where an open fire is allowed. Whichever...remember to take a bucket with you, with a lid or a towel to cover it. Ash is very easily airborne and will fly away on the slightest breeze, even just from walking along with it. Hope this is helpful. 🙂

Hey David the good, I have planted yam and sown some black eyed lobia seeds on it, will it work as interplant

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

I think so

Read all comments and this didn't come up. If vines grow to 40 feet, how do you manage keeping vines from getting out of bounds when growing on sticks ot trellis?

Do they like any kind of fertilizer or amendment? I heard you say dog food and nitrogen, anything else?

So then these brown "potatoes" are the true Yams? I always thought those elongated, orange-colored tubers were the yams that native americans grew and caught on, as a side dish for Thanksgiving, the 'candied yams' that some people bake with brown sugar and cinnamon(like my Mom)or others bake with mini-marshmallows? Thank you Sir David, missed the 'stream but I'm here watching the replay, and learning more day by day, on how to turn my thumbs green! :D

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this is the problem with common names.

That yam song was pretty fire.

Did you grab any of the heirloom tomatoes to get the seeds out of?

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

No. I already have too many tomatoes!

Mississippi here we have the white and the purple.

My thumbs are greener than normal today!

Since the yams like to climb up trees, do they grow well at or near the root base of trees?

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

Haha ❤️ Kids and their markers

Could you leave it in the ground indefinitely? I know that may sound weird, but I am wondering if that is possible.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Yep

I got a pretty big sweet potato last year

I'm in zone 8A in Atlanta area. When should I plant it them?

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

March is best.

I found one of those last year at my grocery store. I think I told you about it. It didn't survive. I'll try again if I find it

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck.

Do you use ash on all root vegetables or just these?

Do you have to use wood ashes? I have plenty of dried up weeds that I can't fit in the anaerobic composter.. I'm itching to burn them up!

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

No, you can just cut them and let them dry for a day or so, then plant.

@DNasephage

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood Cool, thanks!

Would ashes work to keep cut up potatoes from rotting after being planted, too? I have to keep seed potatoes whole, because otherwise they rot away where I live.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

I bet it helps.

@robinlillian9471

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood I''ll have to try it. :)

I don’t think I can grow yams here in Utah. But I wanted to know if the ash is good to put on my cut-up seed potatoes?

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Probably.

@almostoily7541

8 ай бұрын

My family does it every year.

1:58 AH!!!

I live in the FL panhandle, near the AL border (hardiness zone 8b). What crops would you suggest I try as a novice gardener? I don't much care for tomatoes or peppers.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Yard-long beans, Seminole pumpkin, sweet potatoes, okra, collards, black-eyed peas and yams.

@Conny-tk8md

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood Boy, that's not a whole lot of variety, is it? ;) :D

@TriciaAgnew

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood a person could stay very healthy in just those few items! My daddy had a deadly staph infection from surgery back in the 50’s. The doctor said that my mama’s cooking these items (especially the collards) actually saved his life.

How far North can you plant these? I am not much further North than you ... but ...

I have a purple yam Dioscorea.. alata I think. I planted the three small tubers whole.... should I have cut them?

@erikjohnson9223

3 жыл бұрын

You could get more if you cut them up, at the risk of providing entry to pathogens, but they will grow (with greater initial vigor and less risk of rot) from whole tubers.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, @Erik Johnson is right. You could go either way. With rare ones, I might not cut up the few I had.

@crazedfamilygardens

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood @Erik Johnson Thank you both. I am patiently waiting for them to surface.

I grew those a few years ago after reading one of your books but when I boiled them they came out slimey and my family would not eat them. Lol. How does Rachel cook them? I would like to try growing them again.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Usually they are not slimy when cooked. Only when raw.

@zachariahstillwater

3 жыл бұрын

she made a video on it - it’s on their channel here somewhere

@em286

3 жыл бұрын

@@zachariahstillwater thanks! I'll look for it.

@hughbrackett343

3 жыл бұрын

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@em286

3 жыл бұрын

@@hughbrackett343 Thank you!

How are these cooked?

When you said you know somebody that used to put some dog food so the yams can use it as nutrients, did you mean dry dog food or canned dog food?

@davidthegood

12 күн бұрын

Dried

You used ash for fungicide... will it work on a mushroom infestation? Note to self: na-me yam

What!? Those are so different. So THAT'S what a yam looks like. Interesting.

Can you use ashes on a tree limb cuts like citrus etc?

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Probably, though you usually don't need to treat tree cuts as they heal on their own.

@biglou4452

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

LMAO this song is hilarious 😂

I'm in Washington. I've always been told that what we were calling yams weren't actually yams. But when I asked what is a yam then? ... I didn't really get an answer. Anyways, this was cool. I'll have to try to find some. I've never heard of Publix, so .... Hmmm.

@henryvalero9235

3 жыл бұрын

Rachael From Lil Giant Another Comment under this video indicated you might find this “name yam” in Jamaican or African markets if you are not in the South.

@wmluna381

2 жыл бұрын

Also can be found in Caribbean Hispanic markets. The 'Name' part has the littke squiggly over the letter N.

@almostoily7541

8 ай бұрын

Bought white name at Walmart yesterday. Also had white malanga, another root crop.

So i can use ash from fire for potatoes also because potatoes also I cut into pieces

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, if you like, though white potatoes don't like things too alkaline.

I just want to double check... I'm in Northern Virginia, so this isn't happening for me, right?

I get air potatoes every year, I just use them for biomass.

Man. I have pulled thousands of bulbifera from my yard. Not easy digging those up. There were some as big as basketballs. I had to burn them because one tiny sliver and the problem would come back. Horrible weed. Wish they were the Alata.

Must try...... Reckon they'll do ok in California?

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@navagatingthroughthebeasts2908

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood right on, thank you

Do they grow in Massholechusttes?

@davidthegood

2 жыл бұрын

No, but their cousin the Chinese yam does.

@danfay4860

2 жыл бұрын

Aren’t you the same guy who grew an avocado tree in a green house on the cape?? Your supposed to say technically they could grow in Massholechusettes if you build a green house and keep the temperature at 80 degrees with grow lights with the proper soil amendments. That’s the David the Good we all know and love!!! 😂🤣. Keep up the Good work I know I learn something new everyday I watch your channel. For he first time to in my 51 year I am looking forward to raking leaves so I can turn them into compost!!

interesting. The yams i can find look like sweet potatoes. They are not sweet but are the same color and consistency of a sweet potato.

@angelbear_og

3 жыл бұрын

99.999% of "yams" at the grocery store are sweet potatoes. White sweet potatoes aren't that sweet, but neither are they yams.

@cat3rgrl917

3 жыл бұрын

@@angelbear_og our yams look like a sweet potato, tastes like a russet. Our sweet potatoes cook up sweet without adding any sweetener

@angelbear_og

3 жыл бұрын

@@cat3rgrl917 Sounds like you have sweet potatoes there.

@cat3rgrl917

3 жыл бұрын

@@angelbear_og have you ever had an sweet potato that tastes like a russet potato? no sweetness to it ? that are both grown and sold in local farmers markets as yams. You can also buy locally yam seed potatoes.

You never mentioned the air tubers are also edible.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

They don't taste great.

As a Jamaican..those yams are tiny lol. We love huge yams.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Yes - I think the supermarkets here are only picking the small ones to sell. We got way bigger ones in the Caribbean!

If I have no ashes on hand, would cinnamon have the same antifungal effect? Yes, I have old cinnamon just lying around.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Probably.

@ade6219

3 жыл бұрын

And I would think just letting the cuts dry before planting would be sufficiant; as when planting regular potatoes.

Could these be grown in zone 5 wisconsin?

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Probably not. You would have to grow the "Chinese yam" there, AKA "Cinnamon vine."

@allyssaroe7193

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood thanks!

@allyssaroe7193

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood is it edible?

@allyssaroe7193

3 жыл бұрын

No worries, I found the info

Green thumb inspired by children! That's great!

Yams come up when they feel like it, eh? So, they're like cats. They're the cats of the plant world.

John Starnes was a cool guy. Long ago he gave me some chaya (estrella variety). Once and awhile, when I needed help identifying an edible plant he would help me out. May he be remembered.

I know yams and sweet potatoes are two different animals so what you are saying is that the canned "YAMS" we buy at Thanksgiving are really sweet potatoes?? Because the canned "YAMS" ARE sweet. 🤷‍♀️

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. The canned yams are sweet potatoes.

@lesliekendall2206

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood Well those little deceptive stinkers. 😊

When I said Bama I meant Ala not O

Like your show. Don't you think it is a little dangerous, digging with a shovel, in slippers? Protect your feet, you could easily injure the feet with a shovel. slippers don't give good footing and aren't made for gardening; are they? I wear tennis or sturdy shoes when working.

@davidthegood

3 жыл бұрын

I have never put a shovel blade into my foot, through I suppose there is a first time for everything.

@TheRealHonestInquiry

3 жыл бұрын

Barefoot in the garden is best, then you get the benefits of earthing the entire time :)

How do you get them? I'm in north Texas. Whole Foods, perhaps? Will they grow in zone 7~8?

@evelynkorjack2126

3 жыл бұрын

A mexican grocery store should have them. "Name" (nam- ey) yam. They are delicious.

Making me hella nervous after just watching the machete accident reenactment.