A Yam of a Time

Planted vegetable Yam somewhere in late March, then transplant it to another growbed. Now its right time to harvest and make use of it.

It already outgrown the tiny blue tub and many suckling coming out for future harvest. I cut those initial planted since they are big and ready.

I do not want to dig it out, just cut it same level as growbed. There should be tuber forming but let it grow more. The tuber too can be use as vegetable, however this time I try the top part first.

Close up of the cut.

It will grow again and more vegetable for the kitchen. Its so easily grown in Aquaponics and good source of food for the family.

Above from the four plant, these enough for 20 people as vegetable eaten with rice Malay style. That Kesum picked  is to be use along with this Yam during cooking.

These Yam need to be skinned and cut 2 inches long, the skin is not good since it a bit tough and fibrous. The inner part of it is use for cooking as above and its .. what can I say.. GOOD... :)

Okay that about it, another plant shown potential in Aquaponics.

Three Little Piggies - Grown Up

These Yam once they recovered, without wasting time more saplings coming out. This is sign of good growth, and hopefully this small growbed can accommodate them.

This growbed cycle okay and water control like clock work, I am using the 20mm Siphon here. There was some issue with it earlier, manage to rectify by increasing the gap between top of stand pipe to bell dome.

If more sapling come out I need to get more growbed ready.

Three Little Piggies

First Little Piggies.. very proud and wanted to be seen.

Second Little Piggies.. too shy to be seen.

Third Little Piggies.., too small to be seen.

Keladi - Transplant Update 22nd April

Previous Post : Here


Weather been cloudy and gloomy this past couple of days just like in those low budget horror movies. When there is no sun, one thing good to do is transplant.


I need to move these Vegetable Yam to a new growbed this week. Rather than waiting for the weekend I decide to do it today and spare tomorrow and Sunday for the kids.

These yam shows sign of tremendous progress, before it get any bigger I better move them. Once they are bigger it then would takes more time for them to recover.

Roots form beautifully from that what ever left of the tuber. I can buy more now to grow, since it is a success growing it from the market shelf stock. This plant most of it is edible and I think is easily multiply from that tuber.

Start out with four, all survive and looking good, ideal for Aquaponics

This growbed I'm testing the 20mm siphon not fully matured but would be ideal for only this yam, and I hope it would grow and multiply.

Keladi - Update 10th April

This was last week : Here


Good sign, its growing. This will be stock for all my vegetable yam in the future.

Wait for it to produce saplings and more can be grown. Great... :)


Continue : The Transplant

Keladi - Update 3rd April

Last week I tried Yam : Here


It shows some progress, too soon to shout for joy. Something is better than nothing.

Leaves coming out and in another week I will be happy if its still growing.


 Update 10th April : Here

Keladi (Yam) - Trying this plant in Aquaponics

We call in Keladi its Yam in English from the family Araceae, there are so many variety and its easy to get it all mixed up. Some variety of this plants are grown for its Root (tuber), some for decorative purpose and the one that I'm trying out is for use as vegetable.


The stem and root can be eaten, cooked as vegetable dish. Those that grown for its tuber (taro) are bigger in size and may not suit my small setup.

I bough few of these Keladi from the wet market for planting, this way I am sure the variety I had is for vegetable and they are not "Gatal", Its a property of these plant that will make you itch, those that do that is not suitable to be consume.

Most of its roots had being removed for them to display on the shelf and hopefully it can grow from what's remaining on the stem.

I use the Asparagus growbed to give these plant some head start. They don't do well in direct sun and from what I read they like high Nitrogen and wet soil. Looks like a good candidate for Aquaponics.

There are poisonous species of these plants so be careful, never pick from the wild unless you know what you are doing. They look almost the same, brightly coloured plants is a no go for food on these species.

In the wild they are something like above picture, they like wet and shady areas.The one that picture above is not for consumption, only to illustrate how the plant looks like.

Vegetable Yam above, stem is lighter in colour.

There are large area where Yam are planted, some for pharmaceutical purpose and some for their tuber.


I'm looking forward for this plant to do well in Aquaponics, its a good plant for vegetable, its hardy and should be easily grown.


Update : 3rd April Here