Today we're harvesting true yams! (Dioscorea spp.). Take a look at the yield we got!

Also, we got a yield of blue potatoes from the SAME bed, earlier in the year!

Our yams have had no pest or disease issues and are easy to grow, making them a very good survival crop, as I cover in these books:

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Growing yams is easy. They are a staple crop, common in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South and Central America. You can grow them too! Yams are a Florida gardening staple, and also grow in Lower Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and elsewhere.