How to Grow Taro: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

Colocasia esculenta

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Guides

• How to Plant Taro Corms: Timing, Depth, Spacing and Warm Soil
• Hilling Taro: How Earthing Up Increases the Crop of Side Corms
• Watering Taro: Why It Needs More Water Than Any Other Vegetable
• Taro Growing Calendar: The Whole Season From Corm to Harvest
• Taro Pests and Problems: Leaf Blight, Rot, Aphids and Skin Irritation
• When and How to Harvest Taro: Signs, Digging, Curing and Safe Handling

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (18)

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.