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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: dmg on August 14, 2013, 23:49

Title: tiger nuts
Post by: dmg on August 14, 2013, 23:49

Does anyone know where to get these?, all the searches are coming up as fishing bait

Thanks
Dmg

Title: Re: tiger nuts
Post by: Annen on August 14, 2013, 23:58

My local scoop n save shop had them last time I bought some.  They weren't as good as I remembered :(

Title: Re: tiger nuts
Post by: yaxley on August 15, 2013, 00:02

E, bay have them uncooked if thats what your looking for ..

Title: Re: tiger nuts
Post by: dmg on August 15, 2013, 00:30

Sorry I should have said I'm looking for them as seed to grow

Title: Re: tiger nuts
Post by: RJR_38 on August 15, 2013, 07:28

Can't you buy them raw/untreated in health food shops? I would have thought that these would be ok to sow.

Title: Re: tiger nuts
Post by: sunshineband on August 15, 2013, 07:56

I thought they grew under the mud in ponds  :unsure:

I'm not thinking of water chestnuts, but may have this completely wrong  :wacko:


Just looked it up ---although they like a lot of water they are not dependent on it. So now I know  :D