Growing the yam/Carlos Pueblo

Growing the yam/Carlos Pueblo

Amy brings back the yam leaves from her church to make a green dish, boils the leaves and mixes with chopped garlic, the soy sauce, and the sesame oil. We grow the yam in Taiwan for multiple purposes, eat them or feed the hogs, etc. Due to the shape of the Island, we call ourselves the Sweet potato or the yam in different from mainland Chinese . Only due to the long absence of the eatery items, we eat the yam leaves otherwise we leave it alone and make sure the plant bearing the ball stem underground.

Because we like the boiling green leaves, she decides to grow the plants on the back yard. She let the stems be soaked in the water for a few days till roots are clearly seen and transplanted to the ground. The plant can find needed sunshine it self and it is very easy to grow. We have already had a plant from a yam root stem in the ground previously and these whole bunches addition will join force to make our first dish of the home grown in a near future. 

I used to grow the yam on a dog run area of our old Traviata St residence. After I cleaned the broken cement block of the ground which the previous owner attempted to prohibit the weeds, I planted some yam and let them alone for years. The purchaser was a luxury home builder and I knew that he was going to replace the ground soil in order to make sure that would help his structure foundation. I dig up the yam underground that I had had a harvest of many. It is a good memory.

Both of our children have no previous experience with the yam and they don't enjoy to consume them. We are the yam and we remember our past experience from that island of Taiwan. I have lived here in the U.S. longer than in Taiwan, a lot of good memory to grown the yam.