Beginner Gardening: Colocasia Esculenta & Watering Needs, 1 by purpleinopp

purpleinopp wrote:
I have several of these around the yard. Used to be in more sun, much more dry, but after separating and moving to more shady, moist spots, the leaves are much bigger. Already this year, the biggest one is making leaves bigger than last year - about 3 feet long. That one gets pampered because it's handy to water, and nobody but us can see it in the back yard so I put a 5-gallon bucket next to it with a slim slit in the bottom. I fill up the bucket almost every day that it doesn't rain, and put a lot of wet kitchen scraps at the base of it when I can, like watermelon or other melon rinds, banana peels, corn husks, stuff that will melt before it can host a generation of fruit flies. I also put regular, finished compost there when I have it, a few inches of leaves at the end of the year.

Here's what it looked like on the 4th. Earlier that day I had dug up some Oxalis bulbs to send away for trade, so the lump of foliage to the left is the latest addition to the mini-compost pile here. No need to fill up the box with all of that foliage, so I put it here.