We had a failure in keeping manioca through the winter .
I buried a gang of stems into a sand mound near us to keep them through the wintertime . I did something similar in Florida . Here , however , it did n’t work . All of my cutting rotted !
I will have to try a unlike method acting next yr . The rain here is high-pitched , so I intend the cold , dowse wet dry land did them in .
I had saved enough to plant a small field … and now I have very few .
The only manioc that survived the winter were the cutting I sustain in bundle inside a pair of feed bags in the nursery , and the 12 or so cuttings I pot up in case my in - ground storage give out .
Always have backups !
Last hebdomad I re - shaped an fret sandpile and made a Modern outer space to garden .
There was a biochar burn pit , some grass and a sloped area of scoured sand , but now there is a tall deal of sand and a nice flat area for horticulture .
We shape it into mounded beds and planted the cassava canes yesterday .
The bed on the far right has cane buried horizontally in it with some small shoot come up that can not be seen in this picture .
Today we ’re lead to mulch these layer to keep them from eroding . cloggy rains are await this eve and I do n’t want my hard work melting forth . This area is like beach sand with almost no organic thing . The mulch will help keep it from eroding and add some life to the organization .
I also buried some fresh cow manure under the sand when we made these beds .
We are getting a mound pushcart - full of manure about every three years from our Dexter cows . I recall they might be worth consume just for their manure production – it ’s just what my pitiable soil need !
I am glad we care to keep some cassava alive , though turn a loss most of our fund was a blow . The richly - producing smorgasbord I grow out last yr was carefully swerve into dozens of cuttings and store in that gumption pit . Now we only have a few of those continue , and I wo n’t screw which they are until they produce again and countenance me do it via their exemplary production . It ’s like part over , but at least we did n’t lose everything .
The two bags of cuttings I write were my old North Florida variety I got from Indians in Frostproof .
Sam atScrubland Farmzkept propagating that assortment when I move overseas and hooked me up again some months ago . It have with child rootage but need a recollective growing time of year . It ’s not well - suited to this area and will plausibly take two year to reap .
Right now I am looking for fast - bring out types if anyone has star . We had a short assortment in Grenada that made swelled roots in just four months but I ca n’t find it here . Yet ! We ’ll keep searching .
Have a great day , everyone . I hope to memorialize some raw videos before long .
