What are all those piles for? I don't understand how the yams are grown. Are the piles left over from harvesting? Your photos make them look faintly erotic, which doesn't surprise me.
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What are all those piles for? I don't understand how the yams are grown. Are the piles left over from harvesting? Your photos make them look faintly erotic, which doesn't surprise me.
Hahahah! Faintly erotic? I kinda see how, but it wasn't my intentions at all.
The way they're grown is, the head of the yams are buried inside those piles, the leaves and all sprout and grow out while the yam itself never comes out but grows to full size inside the soil.
Have you ever eaten yams?
Ah! So these hills have just been planted.
I think so. Lots of veggies called yams are sold in the US supermarkets, but I've been told they are really sweet potatoes, and that yams and sweet potatoes are not the same thing.
Yeah.
I can imagine,they must have been passing something else off as yams. This is what a yam is supposed to look like:
The other yams in my pictures are "water yams" and "Cocoyams".