I successfully used cassava as a Summer shade crop for my smaller, less UV tolerant plants. In addition to the shade & privacy they offered, the no maintenance plants provided pounds of delicious, sweet cassava😋 which I used as a Russet potato substitute.

Below is a video of my very first cassava/yuca harvest:

I’ve still got some sweet cassava/yuca to harvest (has little to no bitterness👍🏾) over the next couple of weeks🤲🏾.

My cassava shade plant experiment went so well, that I’ll be repeating it this Summer😎.

If you’d like to purchase cassava/yuca cuttings to plant your own crop ($10 per ~18” long cutting; which can be used to produce multiple plants), you can email me at kjones@mahabafarms.us.

Have a great week on purpose!