Im looking for the invasive ones from Florida...Im nto sure of the correct name since people have their own ideas which ones are the air potatoes...they are about the size of a golf ball or a little smaller...my grandfather used to bring them home for us to grown on a pole in the middle of the veggie garden..oh the memories.....Judy
CLOSED: Air Potatoes
Got 'em! I put a bunch of them in 4" pots for a local get together but did't take them since no one asked. I also put about 6 in a gallon pot because they were here. Then they came up in a brug pot I forgot about. LOL Want some?
These are the ones with big heart shaped leaves that form little taters up and down the stems.
OH Badseed!! I want some too if you have enough!
Heather
No problem! I have a ton of stuff to send out. What is one more box? LOL LOL Seriously, I have several of the potatoes sprouted. I am waiting on more boxes from the post office. :)
You guys are killing me. Here I am, purt near breaking my neck on a daily basis, trying to get deep into my flower beds to pull these @#%^$ suckers out, and y'all are paying good money (postage) to get some. Want some kudzu to go with them? lol
Can I add my plea for some air potatoes too? I have a few unsightly spots in the yard that I'd love to hide with the vines...
Nothing is too invasive here except dandelions LOL
Ah, the advantage of cold Canadian air fronts and four feet of snow in the winter! (Probably the only advantage.)
Thanks!
Jackie
LOL Pins, you behave! I have never had them winter over in 6. I do bring them in because I like the foliage. Any little spuds that drop off, get too cold and rot. Even when I have found them, they are mushy yuck by the spring.
Hellobebe, you can have some too. That should pretty well take care of my 12 little pots of them. :)
Badseed, if you find another potato, I really would like to have it! I can send you postage. I didn't get mine in before frost and lost every last one of them :(
Or if anyone else has extra...Pins?
Thanks so much!
Yvonne
Yvonne, if I miss any and they get to the potato size, I'd be glad to send them to you. As it is now, everytime I see that little heart shaped leaf, I rip it out. They are just tooooo invasive in my yard, and they wrap themselves around good plants and kill them. I can see putting them in a container away from other plants. I can see growing them up north where the potatoes won't survive the winter. Just NIMBY.
NIMBY? LOL That one took me a minute but I figured it out. Cute.
Yvonne, I can come up with enough for one more person. The ones in the little pots are not huge but are sending out vines. I have another pot with egg sized ones. I don't need them all. I would think in zone 8 they would survive the winter? Don't yell at me later. :)
NIMBY took me 2 minutes to figure out! lol
I'm rigtht on the border of 8a, 7b. Maybe I should plant it in the backyard. I think that's 8a! lol
Michelle, how much postage/SASBE should I send?
Thanks so much!
Yvonne
Yvonne, the one pound rate is fine-$3.85. You can email me for my addy.
I'll try to remember to save some next time I do the great potato round up in my yard. I've been battling them for 15 yrs now and have only managed to keep them down to one corner of the yard.
I cut, I spray, I dig, I pick up errant potatoes every couple of weeks. Have get to eradicate them totally. Same with that nasty vine with the yellow flowers that turn into orange pods and take over everything.
Jan...
come on ya'll....has to be better than tennessee crabgrass!!
Tina
Oh Yea? What about the obnoxious oxalis that takes over and crowds out everything in my yard.
Jan...
hehe...I just bought some of the burgundy one to set out
Tina
These are the little violet colored ones and they are everywhere. They are cute but they take over everywhere.
Jan...
LOL, Jan, I'd take them over the dandelions here, but alas, I always want what I don't have!
Careful what you say. You might find violets riding on those taters. LOL
BeBe, I got plenty of those "pretty yellow FLOWERS" too!! But Hey....at least the lizard my son has likes to eat those. LOL
Tina
LOL Michele & Tina!
Last year my son picked one, shoved it under my nose and said "I picked a bootiful flower for you, Mommy, smell it!"
Well, I sneezed for half an hour.
Dandilions are not Dandy in my book!
I can send you some Dandy's, Tina, for the lizard, no postage required!
How terribly sweet!!!! But no thank you. He likes home grown produce
Actually, there was time when I had to beg for dandelions. I didn't have any but I raised budgies and they're actually very healthy greens and the budgies loved them. I got some but grew just enough harvest and they never went to seed so I still don't have any in the yard.
Jan...
Tina, too funny, yes, but he might like the "imported"......
Jan, I don't even have any grass left (other than ornamental) and the little buggers pop up in my cutting gardens all the time. Of course, it doesn't help that all of the neighborhood kids make wishes on the seed heads and blow them in my direction!
Jackie
I will be getting these ready to go out today. Three of you for spud babies and Hellobebe wants spuds, henbit, dandelions, wild violets, wild mustard, wild onions, wild strawberries, virginia creeper, kudzu vine, wild honesuckle and a mouthy 11 year old. Please let me know if I do not have these right.
LOL You are Baaaaaaad, Badseed!
Goody, I have a somewhat mouthy 10 year old, so now I'll have a matched set.
Thanks Michele!
Whats the shipping on the mouthy 11 year old? I have some weeds and digging I can re-direct the darling with.... hehehehehehe---
getting your $$ out today- sorry it took so long!
Heather
Badseed, you forgot to include the ever present wild violets. No "real" garden is complete without them!
Nope, the violets are up there! No way was I forgetting those! Pretty, but rampid. LOL The 11 yr old weighs about 95 pounds. If I fold her in half or thirds, I am thinking UPS is the way to go. Fair warning: forced weeding results in loss of wanted plants. LOL She does do a fine job on planting daylilies though. :)
Heather, I always say "It's just money. My husband can make more.". LOL A lady I work with wanted to buy something on sale and didn't have the money. Her hubby freaks over $$ (which is funny because she works and pays the bills and he does not.) so if she pays cash, he really doesn't notice. I told her to pick out what she wanted and pay me when she cashed her check. She went on about not wanting me to pay, blah blah and I made the above comment. I heard several ladies in other aisles bust out laughing.
Y'all really should add some plants and seeds to your 'wanted' lists. :)
I'll add kudzu to mine... hey chele, don't give everything away before I can get down there to raid!!!
Seriously, I've tried to get my girlfriend in NC to send me some for a pot, and she won't do it!
You've got a true friend there, Melissa.
awww but Carmen, I absolutely LOVE the smell of Kudzu, and it's such a pretty vine... I know... sorta like our locust and rose briars up here.... and that awful Purple stuff Wanda walked around my yard last summer, and then to the edge of the field and was ooohing and ahhing over weeds. LOL
This is not a joke, let me first say. One of our towns is considering letting goats eat their kudzu. Here's the story.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/shared/news/nation/stories/04/26_KUDZU_GOATS.html;COXnetJSessionIDbuild73=C4xl42HkeGo3oPupNyuaGu6hrMe1B8dDLRW43urfgiMz804ZzwpG!-1390036715?urac=n&urvf=11152224377970.21315132954327387
Thanks for your generosity, 'chele!
Melissa, do you TRUELY want some kudzu? I can send you some official Mississippi Kudzu. The hills are alive with it at my Mom's. It really does smell good when blooming. Has purple blooms like wisteria and you can make jelly from the blooms, which is similar to grape jelly. It is very invasive tho. My roommate has this dream of building a huge iron frame in the shape of a dinosaur and covering it with kudzu like a huge topiary.
Thanks all!
Yvonne
OH yes Yvonne, I really do WANT kudzu...... I really really really do!
Let me say for the record, I do not have kudzu. As I was naming off my invasive weeds, I had to throw it in.
Melissa, when ya coming? You know you are welcome to anything I have if I have more than one. LOL
Taters are packed, just gotta run 'em up the road later. THE SUN IS SHINING!!!
Carmen, what a neat story.... I know you guys battle it, and don't like it, but what a way to get rid of it!
Pins, I hope they try that! I used to raise goats and they WILL choose it over the pin oak. Goats are curious and may nibble at something, but they will choose to eat the kudzu as long as it's available. Ya'll will have 300 lb goats running around! lol
This is all too much, the kudzu, I mean. What a riot!
And to think I was miffed about dandelions...LOL
How far north is it hardy?
Thanks 'Chele for the taters, it hailed here an hour ago, but now the sun is shining bright!
ps, who got the 11 year old?