Last year I got some tuberous pea from Elzo, a local gardening friend. I posted about this before. Because it tends to send its tubers very deep, he suggested growing it in a container if I want to eat it, so the tubers would be more confined and easier to harvest. As an alternative to eating it, it is a native plant (for me) and it is nitrogen fixing, so it’s also possible to ‘set it free’ in the garden, as a green manure plant.
Anyway, last year in the container, I noticed it was growing, but not very much. Just a few shoots, and lots of weeds. I didn’t pay much attention to it, and didn’t take very good care of the weeds, and didn’t even think of harvesting it because I didn’t think I was going to find many tubers.
Look at the container this year! It’s gone wild. I guess this year I’ll have enough tubers to make it worth harvesting…
