It climates where they get frosts/snow, they collect the thick stems after harvest and store them in hay over winter.
They then plant the cuttings come spring.
Discussion
Yesterday I harvested a plant & tried to make tortillas.
It was the first time I'd harvest a cassava plant to eat even though I've technically had it growing for 5 years. My original plant was neglected & got shaded out by weeds but was good for cuttings.
The tortillas were a failure. They tasted like potato pancakes. I'm not sure if it was because I harvested it before the tubers had gotten really fat or if I didn't boil it long enough to make it soft.
Harvesting was easy because the soil was soft & sandy. They peeled really quickly & easily. After cooking 2 tortillas I abandoned that & added the mash to a soupy osso buco I had made. I'd only added salt to the water I'd boiled it in but the mash tasted almost cheesy. It's very tasty, very much like potato with more flavour & with a gloopy texture.
I rate cassava highly as a low maintenance starchy survival food. Going to be growing a lot of this in the future.
Sounds like winning and learning in the same activity. 👊🏼
I wonder if there are any South America Nostr folk who might have some insight into the cooking of cassava tortillas
#hola
Also I quite potato pancakes 😋
Yeah - they were eaten, it was just a pain to roll them out.
They didn't develop a glutinous texture to bind them together. Sticky but not glutinous. I'll have another shot when they're a bit bigger.
It's definitely worth growing the cassava though. Potatoes don't do well in the heat/humidity here. I've given up on potatoes.