At $8.99 a kilo in the supermarket now, so it might be worth trying.
I have a vague memory of someone telling me that historically kumara couldn't be grown here, but I don't know if any modern cultivars would be possible to grow.
Has anyone tried?
TIA
bill1451,
Jan 23, 7:52pm
nah too cold, they like lots of water and warm night temperatures, possibly in a glass house but then you would need to heat it.
samanya,
Jan 23, 8:37pm
You'd be pushing your luck. I couldn't grow them in Nelson on a property with a great micro climate. I think they need about 6 - 7 months of warmish temps.
calista,
Jan 23, 10:30pm
Thanks for the replies - even though I didn't like what they said.😥.
Will just have to budget more frugally.
junie2,
Jan 24, 12:06am
I would have to agree with all above BUT I was surprised to read somewhere a while back that lots of pre-European kumara pits had been found on the West Coast. I know that's not here, but still wouldn't have thought it possible there either. Maybe they brought them down from the north?
I did manage to grow a very small crop of Kumara one summer in South New Brighton using a sheet of corrugated iron underneath . It was quite a phaff and I didnt bother again , My understanding was that Banks Peninsula was the southern most limit on kumara growing .
tourer100,
Jan 24, 3:24pm
You should go on nz veg garden page on fb, so much info on there, lots from Christchurch, and yes, some are trying.
monsieurl,
Jan 7, 2:42am
My brother in law (in Dunedin) has a good crop of Kumara growing in his glass house which isn't airtight and has some plastic sheeting where glass should be and it's growing pretty good, Casava too.
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