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Re: Harvest Time

By: Zimbler0 in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
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Decomposed > I've never heard of 'Gabi' but if you tell me a little more about it, maybe I'll plant it next year.


Well De,
Gabi seems to grow from bulbs and overwinter OK down here. But remembering that the Philippines is tropical to near tropical . . . I don't know how well they would do up there.

And that is probably the reason your 'Setow' beans did not do well. When the summer is very hot those beans just scream up the trellis (grow very fast) but when (or if) it is cool they just sulk.

Learn something new every day . . . Seems 'Gabi' is more well known as 'taro'.

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Gabi (Taro) - ABOUT FILIPINO FOOD

http://www.aboutfilipinofood.com/gabi/

Gabi is the plant bearing the scientific name Colocasia esculenta. It is more known in English as taro. Taro Plants / Gabi Field Laing is a Bicolano dish whose main ingredient is taro leaves stewed in coconut milk with chilis.
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The first picture is the 'bulbs' or, I guess, taro roots. The second picture you can see the 'elephant ear' leaves.

She dries, then cooks and eats the leaves. To me they look like a pretty tropical ornamental.

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Re: Harvest Time
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Sun, 18 Oct 20 5:38 AM 		Msg. 07433 of 60014

Zimbler0:

Re: “Radish? Geez . . . GirlFriend thought it was some kind of Philippino vegetable. . . But then she likes to grow what looks like an 'elephant ear' type ornamental which she calls 'Gabi' and swears it is good eating.”Yep, it's a radish. An ordinary Burpee radish that's supposed to look like.... see photo, below. But leave 'em in the ground and they just keep growing!

I've had old radishes before. They tend to get hotter with age, and tough too. My guess is that this one will be like chewing on tree bark.

I've never heard of 'Gabi' but if you tell me a little more about it, maybe I'll plant it next year. I DID try growing the yard-long "Asparagus" green beans you recommended. They didn't do well... growing slowly and hardly producing any beans. Even the few that I did get were barren of harvestable seeds. Otherwise I'd try growing them again next year in a different location. (I had success with the same type in California.)

Meanwhile, the "Kentucky Wonder" green beans I grew on the same trellises did extremely well. I'll be growing them again next year, hopefully in far greater quantities. (Some of these hybrid seeds can't be harvested and re-planted. The seed companies have bred that ability out of them. Next year will tell the tale.)

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