Yamberry Yields

Hello dear folks,
love this project! Unfortunately Kenneth Asmus from Oikos tree crops does not grow the big air potatoes anymore and also he kinda discontinued his nursery, only some seeds still going. So if anyone has a few big aerial tubers to share that would be awesome! I am situated in Germany but have a possibility to get the plant material here via a befriended botanic garden. Would love to assess yields and improve them if possible over here.
Tristan

I would like to experiment this plant. I am in North Central Texas, Zone 7. I would appreciate if any one would share 5 or more yamberries with me. I am happy to pay for shipping. Thanks.

Just completed my harvest. It's year 3, the first year of decent yields. Based on past experience I expect the yields to be higher in year 4 and even higher in year 5, and then more or less stabilize. I collected all the yamberries from my 1 square meter collection area under the trellis. After removing debris and washing them, they weighed 1.9 kilograms (4.3 lbs). That's about 1/2 or 1/3 of what potatoes would yield. So about what I expected. I'm very excited to see what future years will produce - and to see what yields all of you report!

Greetings All.

2 things: I want to share how I mass produce large tubers for sushi markets and I am requesting bulbils from project members.

I lost the small lot of bulbils Eric Toensmeier sent out from frost penetrating the soil. I was hoping to get some again, I am willing to pay and am looking for up to 5 lbs. Please contact me if you are willing to share your harvests.

I have attached a photo showing how I produce the tubers for commercial markets. Obviously when harvesting these deep penetrating and easily broken roots it becomes quite a chore. So I started experimenting with methods to produce long straight tubers that did not require deep laborious digging. I have attached a slideshow showing my process. If anyone is interested then feel free to contact me with questions.

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all healthy and well. We are now in year three, and our yamberries should be having their first proper yield this year, though I expect they will grow larger for the next two years (we'll measure them in 2022 and 2023 as well).

When your yamberries are ripening this fall, here's what I'd like us all to do. Build a little wooden frame 1 meter by 1 meter square (39.5" x 39.5"). Place it under the trellis with a tarp or towel under it, and shake down all of the yamberries. Weight them and let me know the total. Then you can eat them! I'll write as the time approaches with more details.

Do let me know if your yamberries died, or you had to move, or for some other reason you don't expect to have yields to report this year.

Thanks everyone!

Eric

Hello all, new to the network 😊 Very exciting concept! Is this project still active? Would love to participate, I'm in zone 4a, latitude 60 (Alaska), snow is starting to melt here so it would be great get my hands on some yamberries quick, as we have a pretty short, sunny growing season here. Thanks!

About 1.5 pounds of yam berries are ready to put into the dirt.
They have been on the shelf in the pantry since last fall.
Should be about ready weather wise, here we usually get our last frost
sometimes in mid to late March.

Looks like many of you are having your first, small-scale harvest from second-year plants. They are ripe when they fall - try laying a blanked under them and shaking them down. Plant some if you like but try cooking some. I boil them for 10 minutes and add salt and sometimes butter - they are really quite good! Next year we'll get our first heavy yield and we can start collecting data! Meanwhile hope you enjoy your vines. Eric

I have just returned to work after being furloughed from my job since March and unable to weed around the vines. They didn’t seem to mind the weeds and have produced a few handfuls that I replanted. A new cattle panel trellis will be installed next year. So far they seem to have multiplied since year one.

Picked 10.5 oz of berries from one plant a few minutes ago. A lot of them from off the ground. Took 5 of the biggest ones to make an ounce, probably picked and picked up 100 or so.
Laura blew through here yesterday and pretty much wiped the garden out. Several of my berry vines are wind burned very badly. Some may not make it.
Wish that I could get pictures to upload.

Was harvesting off some of my yamberry plants, and found these red ones. Has anyone else gotten red yamberries? They are cranberry red. Placed some of the green ones next to them just to show the contrast, hope It's clear.

This really stinks.
Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong?
I've chosen files and my machine says that it is uploading, but then nothing.
????????????????????????????

One of the vines is really going crazy

I've got to learn to stop pressing buttons to get this machine to go faster.
It results in broke up posts on my part.
I hope that this does finally show the pictures that I've tried to post. I'm getting excited to
tell of how well some of these plants are starting to do.
If this posts pics twice, excuse me.
I have not figured out if there is a way to edit my posts or not.

Of the eight vines that I have growing there is one that is really showing off.
It was the first one to sprout this spring and is the strongest grower by a long shot.
The other vines are starting to show some promise as well

here are a couple of pictures showing the progress of two of the yam-berries that are really putting on new growth. And if I loaded the right pic there is a shot of what seems to be either blooms about to open or little tiny berries coming on. Excuse the ugly mug it was a way to show how far this vine has gone it a month. I'm right at 6 feet tall and it's over my head.
itsmesrd