Wapato
Y esterday I had the opportunity to harvest wapato for the second time. I have been growing them in tanks for two seasons now. Last fall I had a small harvest having planted only three small tubers at the beginning of the season. This year's harvest was more sizable; still not too many meals worth, but if I compare the labor input to harvest ratio I'd say they were quite worthwhile. Other than occasionally adding some water or manure to the tanks there was really not much work involved. Also, harvesting was more fun than work. I just stirred up the muck with a long handled garden tool and then collected the wapatos as they floated to the surface. To the left is a portion of my wapato harvest next to a few sunchoke tubers. You'll notice that there is quite a range in sizes. The large egg sized tubers all came from a larger tank of water that was only lightly populated with wapato this season and the muck they grew in...