I have not got the faintest idea about anything to do with fruit & veg !!!!
One sudden thought just sprang to mind though with the mention of 'raised-beds' ; Probably 100% wrong , but could the the tubers be young sweet-potatoes ?
Laugh and mock as you will , it's only a very very wild guess!
I will never mock, given I probably know much less than you on the subject!!
hmm, I think I'll pot them up and see what happens...
Well, I grew sweet potatoes this year and they are that colour and, of the two I have dug up so far, one produced huge fat tubers which looked and tasted as they should whilst the other hardly produced any tubers at all and they were very knobbly and deformed like that or else rotted right through after being munched by voles or mice.
Try cutting one in two and see if it looks like a sweet potato. If not, and it is layered like an onion or daffodil or fibrous like ginger, then you have a bulb or corm of some sort.
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Your sycamores will almost certainly grow back if you lop them.
I have one growing at the base of a stone retaining wall, where it is impossible to dig it out, and I have to cut it back every spring.
It doesn't take up root space there though, but if yours are where you want to plant things, you would be better keeping some of the strong stem for leverage when you get to dig them out. Top them by all means.
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hmm, I think I'll pot them up and see what happens...
Try cutting one in two and see if it looks like a sweet potato. If not, and it is layered like an onion or daffodil or fibrous like ginger, then you have a bulb or corm of some sort.