Elephant Ear Question

[canesisters]

Hang in there Journey - once they get going you can almost watch them grow.
A tiny shoot one day - 4' of waving leaves the next.

 

[lesa]

Honestly, I am going to try and start mine inside in January next year. That is ridiculously early for anything around here- but I need them at least sprouted by May! Geez, sorry you are having the same dreadful weather we are, Kristi...Better days are coming!

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Oh My Gosh. I haven't thought about Elephant Ears in decades. When we lived in San Antonio, my baby bro ate some of an elephant ear in the back yard (along with everything else he could get in his mouth). Mother had to have his stomach pumped.

 

[lesa]

Oh dear, Murpysranch! I had not heard they were poisonous...

 

[canesisters]

... I thought the bulbs were edible??????

 

[journey11]

Oh, I'll have to watch the toddler around them then. Thanks for the warning.

 

[ninnymary]

thiste, were they easy to grow in containers? How big of a container do they need? I'd like to make my deck look more tropical so that I can pretend I'm in Hawii or Mexico. (I noticed that my ofther smilie with the sunglasses is no longer here. I preferred that one to this new one. )

Mary

 

[Carol Dee]

@ninnymary We have grown them in pots, with the bottoms of the pots submerged in the shallow part of the pond. But that is not necessary. Just water them! I think the pots where about 12"clay pots, maybe the next size up.

 

[MontyJ]

Oh you brutes! It's bad enough people are harvesting the poor elephants tusks! Now you're planting their ears! Where will this madness end???

 

[lesa]

Oh, plant some ninnymary! I bet you can grow them year round!!