We are farm cassava in zone 8b , which is far from its preferred tropic climate !
Yet we ’ve rule it to be quite possible to grow it here , with a picayune excess piece of work .
Yesterday three of my sons and I cut down all the cassava starch plant grow in our garden , pack the canes to the nursery and leaving the stumps and roots in the ground .
The cane will be rick into cuttings , some of which we ’ll deal , and others of which we ’ll constitute out in the saltation .
The stumps leave behind in the garden were then covered with sure-enough hay to keep them from freezing . In the springiness , we ’ll uncover them and they ’ll maturate fresh canes , and the roots beneath the ground will grow much larger and be ready for harvest next nightfall .
In a tropical climate , manioc is often ready for harvest in about a year . Here , it usually takes longer than that since they do n’t grow well in cooler weather . Most of their growth takes seat from April into October , and then nothing happens during the cool month . Since they ’re not frost patient of , they also get wrack when the weather drop to 32F or below . The intact canes immobilize pronto and die .
This requires us to take cutting before the cold , and to traverse the bases of the plant so they do n’t freeze to demise .
Sometimes they ’ll emerge from the land in the outpouring even without security , but they have a much in high spirits success pace if you mulch over the cut stumps .
These are first - twelvemonth roots from a works we set out in the spring from a cutting , then reap from theGrocery Row Gardensin fall before frost :
Though the root were deserving harvest , they are n’t intimately as big as they could be ! They would have grown much bighearted in the second year , if we had sustain them through the winter .
This is how the roots develop in rundle , pass on out from the main root :
Yesterday we did harvest a few roots from a precocious plant life , but with the other thirty or so plant , we simply cut them down , saved the cane , then mulch over the bases .
Here are the canes in the greenhouse right now :
And , look the other direction …
That ’s a lot of manioca !
Meanwhile , these are what the remaining stumps count like in the garden :
A pile of leaves , pale yellow , or , in our font right now , old rotten hay , is then used to cover the cassava stumps
Each of those little mounds of hay is covering cassava plant . They ’ll reemerge in springtime when the weather condition warms , grow chop-chop and producing much larger yield than if we harvested them now .
I ’ve postedmore on how to mature cassava here .
And you canget your own casava cuttings to imbed here .
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