yeah out of stock 
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Interwoven Farm on Etsy. It was tubers instead of seeds. They grew their’s from seed sourced for EFN I believe. It is no longer listed anymore though.
Well whe. You get tubers sell me a few 
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My daughter found these tubers sitting exposed in her back yard. It’s a new house so she’s still exploring. The location is a hillside with generally damp soil.
It looks to me like either (1) something dug up the tubers, or (2) runoff from rain / snowmelt eroded the soil covering them.
She asked me (the family gardener) what they are. My best guess is groundnuts. Can anyone confirm? Or not. Thx.
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looks like them to me. plant them somewhere that gets decent sun near a large tree. they will climb all over them. i grow the kennebec strain from oikios tree crops. they have spread quite a bit growing into my spruces, birches and mountain ash with no care whatsoever. flowers are cool looking and they are a N fixer. im going to dig some to plant on the s side of my j. artichoke patch and let them climb thier stalks. they both die to the ground in winter and the ground nut will help fertilize the j. artichokes.
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pretty sure the flowers are edible and so are the beans the flowers make, though hardly the main purpose most people have. still nice. (dont quote me on this look it up)
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i think i read that also. most in the legume family are. my growing seasons too short so i never get the pods. flowers in late sept here. even j. artichoke rarely flowers here. about once every 3 or so years. i grow the white and red ones.
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Ive heard and read that most or all Apios north of ~ the Mason Dixon line are sterile triploids.
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It sure seems to be difficult to obtain improved groundnuts. Everywhere I’ve seen them is out of stock. Is there a certain time of year that they are typically easier to get?
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More of a fall crop like sunchokes
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i got a bunch of improved LSU cultivars from someone on here. out of 5 only one survived the winter last year. if it comes back this spring im going to put it in a better spot with better soil. they had nodules the size of a med. egg. double the size of my kennebec.
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So these fruit alot faster than groundnuts. I didn’t even seem them flower. They are very small pods, I wonder if you eat them green or if you shell and eat the beans?
I am aware the main crop is the tubers.
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So I’m beginning to grow these, also pre built some really nice cinder block grow beds to plant once I get my new order and after next year plant whatever extra I get or more from the ones I got in the ground now, they’re pretty lively but these particular ones are the “simon improved” Planning on possibly trying to propagate these into a very large self perpetuating collection 
Sry that first picture was tomatoes lol
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I bought mine from a site called interwoven farms, you buy them as a preorder n they come in the fall.
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I was about to mention that you got the wrong seeds
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My inground tubers sent up an additional shoot this year maybe 2 feet from the original, so i will be harvesting out that section over there to see if I get some tubers this winter. I have 2 more in growbags, one a 10 gallon tall bag and another a stout wide one. I will probably take out the wide this year and switch it to a tall one, not a fan of how the wide ones keep shape (poorly).
The inground one is 2nd season and the growbag ones in there first season.
All three of mine finally put up greens. Def won’t be harvesting this year but glad all 3 tubers took