😯 Its a food, and here I only thought they were cards.

😯 Its a food, and here I only thought they were cards.

Yepper it's both but I prefer not to eat playing cards. 😀 In a veggie snack bag they are the white chips with the bits of purple in the middle

Looks interesting. Can grow in water. Better learn about it though. Poisonous till cooked.

I think it's a root...? I also think/assume it grows in tropical places. But now I'm going to look it up because I'm curious.

I was going to see if I could find the seeds to try it indoors in one of my empty fish tanks.

Thanks Perfesser I had read that both the leaves and roots had to be cooked first to be eaten

Link to Taro info (growing, cooking and eating)
http://raygrogan2-ivil.tripod.com/tarogrowcookeat/

You may find Taro in either your supermarket, or Asian stores - you want the corm (rhizome?, tuber?), if you can get it organic even better. Sometimes they spray the tubers with chemicals so that they don't sprout - longer shelf life! Try your local garden centre!

Thanks Susannah

Why not also try okra or yam or sweet potato as well if you're going to the trouble of growing taro? Very yummy! 😀
http://www.canadiangardening.com/gardens/fruit-and-vegetable-gardening/learn-to-grow-a-sweet-potato/a/1264
http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/sweetpotatodiff.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okra

I tried sweet potatoes last year for the first time. Easy, produced well, tolerant of neglect, stores well. I'll grow many more this year instead of regular potatoes.
Have an order of seeds coming any day now with okra and a few other unusual things from William Dam seeds. Quite a few asian greens, can't remember what all else.

Perfesser..you'll have to put some more photo's up when they're all growing!