#yamfail

Failed. Again! Three years in a row I've attempted to grow New Zealand yams in our back yard, and three years in a row I've failed. I wrote about my ongoing attempts to grown yams in Canberra five months ago, and while I was quite hopeful when the plants developed plenty of foliage, I dug them up today and received … five yams. Well, three and a half, really, as some of them were in varying stages of having been gnawed by insects. I don't want my efforts to be completely wasted so we'll need to find a way to eat them. Perhaps finely chopped and fried. Think I might go back to growing crops that reliably provide food ...