Taro

One benefit of the dry weather we've been having -- I've been able to walk into what we like to think of as our pond and pull out a good deal of the Taro there.   

At one point I had despaired of doing anything about Taro: herbicides roll off it, and digging it just left me muddy, sweaty, and frustrated.     I tried cooking it, in the hopes that it would be  desirable enough to attract help digging it, but after being boiling beyond reason it still numbed my mouth.

Finally have I discovered that if the conditions are right you can pull it, and the tuber will (most of the time) come with it.     The conditions are decidedly not right in places I've gone after it before, but now there's no water in the pond, so I can walk there, and the soil is still damp, so the Taro will come out.   This trash day I have two buckets of Taro tubers in the trash.