Tapioca / Cassava - Super Easy to Grow Here In Kerala India - Here is How!
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Growing Tapioca is so easy and it gives so much harvest for the space it requires. A food I am putting on my list of vegetables that can feed the world. As this is a video from last year I have gained some more experience since. It is an important tropical root crop providing the food to about 500 million people, but it has one downside. It contains cyanide. To get rid of it you need to dry it properly then boil it well. So proper prep and cooking is important. To grow it. What I tend to do now is bury the entire length of tapioca stems in the full length of the mounts. As they all pop up I do have to thin the shoots a bit. This is great as here the stems rot away real fast in the soil and as I also add all the leafs on top as mulch the nutrients go straight back into the soil. Have tried using the stems as mulch but that was the problem. They all just started growing where I did not need them. So now I can use the stems too as nutrients. I don't add compost to my tapioca's, as at present I am trying just to get by with at outset - weeds and then last years tapioca materials when planting. I follow this after the harvest is done with beans for getting N back into the soil. Also i have tried a combination of Tapioca and climbing beans when the plant is about one meter tall. This worked fine once the lower leafs were taken off the stem, But is only really any good if you leave more space between your plantings of tapioca so the light can really get in for the beans. Normal planting distance is 50cm apart. With beans 80cm is needed. Check Out This New Project We Are Doing https://www.patreon.com/workwithnature Also We Do Product Review Videos On Brands Relating To Organic Gardening, Beekeeping & Seed Saving! If You Would Like To See What We Do Watch This Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLha4JrAOmQ Or contact us on workwithnature@outlook.com You Can Also Follow Us On Google+ https://plus.google.com/+workwithnature Twitter https://twitter.com/workwithnature Facebook https://web.facebook.com/workwithnature
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You can try the roots that have elephant ear like leaves. Two variety does well in Kerala.
they are delicious than tapioca. -
Usually people from Kerala starts cassava from stems like shown in video , they plant it immediately after first summer rain(around April) , they are harvested in December-January. Obviously they cannot eat that all, so they remove skin, slice it into thin pieces , boil it and dry it in sun, so they have year round supply.
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My parents used to say this Tapioca (or Kappa in Malayalam ) fed them when they where kids when world war was in full fledge, so getting rice or wheat(our staple food) was nearly impossible. They survived on Tapioca, eating cooked jack fruit(not ripe), taro, elephant yam, purple yam etc. Do check them out as well. And yes I am from Kerala.
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Can this be grown in London.
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Hi! I'm from South Florida. I got my first cuttings of cassava (another name for yuca/tapioca) about 5 months ago. a cuban guy told me that you can plant them in 2 ways:
one is like you did, only a little deeper, like 2/3 underground.
the other is horizontally all buried an inch or two deep.
So, I planted 3 horizontally and six 2/3 in the ground.
The 3 horizontals are twice the size of the other six. I can't wait to see how big are the roots.
By October I'll be harvesting one of those to see how big are they and I will let the others to reach the 9 month mark.
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How is the tapioca eaten or prepared?
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good info thanks
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In Puerto Rico it is known as Yuca (jew ka).
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Can I grow this in Canada?
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in srilanka tapioca is breakfast for most people.we soak this in water for several hours to reduce cyanide and easy to peel the skin
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you can make cakes out of them as well or fry them up. can be a bit bland. I prefer sweat potato. the soft leaves of both tapioca, yam and sweet potato are eaten as well.
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What is your current growing repertoire in your area?
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in Malaysia we boil them and eat them with sugar, coconut or something spicy like sambal. it is considered a poor man's food because it is easy to grow and harvest. it's very starchy sometimes hard and fibery. eaten a lot by the Pacific islanders as well.
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can you please do a cooking video using the tapioca?
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