Re: gardenwriters Digest, Vol 22, Issue 25

**M* H* <m*@mac.com>**

The edibility of the ornamental yams is not surprising at all. You all
know that heirloom vegetables are good because the growers selected
those that tasted good along with any other good qualities. Ornamental
yams (they are really sweet potatoes, but called yams in America
anyway) were selected solely for their ornamental foliage. The taste
was not even considered - much like the cardboard tomatoes that are
selected because they are easily harvested by machine and have a long
shelf life. In the Seed Savers Exchange catalog, I've wanted to have
enough land to do trials on some that sound as if they might have
ornamental qualities as well as being good to eat - but I have neither
the land nor the climate.
Mary Henry
Minneapolis
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