A rugged, reliable perennial, yacon (ya-CONE) has been a food staple for centuries in the Andes, where the sweet, juicy tubers are eaten fresh like fruit. In fact, the tubers hold so much sugar that ...

Over the course of the growing season, a yacon bush will reach 6 to 8 feet in height with giant showy leaves and small yellow flowers, making it a nice ornamental backdrop plant. To save yacon from ...

I first heard of yacon a couple of years ago. I was sat by the fire on a very cold winter's evening, beer, pencil, paper and the TV for company, scribbling the coming year's wishlist. The presenter of ...

Yacón, sometimes known as strawberry jicama, has a flavor that can be described in one word: delicious. It is an open-pollinated perennial (often grown as an annual) from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, ...

Yacon, a tuber that grows in the Andean region of South America, was identified as a potential diet food as far back as 1989, in a book by United States government researchers. “Yacon stores ...

Yacon is a perennial plant forming a clump of >20 big, edible underground tubers. Yacon, which originates from South America, has become increasingly popular in the Japanese diet for tubers have a ...

In my article, Yummy Yacon, I indicate that you can store yacon for up to eight months. A reader recently wrote in saying he’s grown yacon for years, but he has trouble storing the tubers. This is an ...

Recently, I came upon a website called Cultivariable (cultivariable.com), which sells all manner of Andes tubers. Hmm, the Andes. To me, this means high altitude, and that means cold weather – and any ...

It is the curse of the weekly garden columnist: You have to live with what you leave out. Given the unforgiving nature of a sort growing season when things have to be started on time or else, this is ...

There is something deeply satisfying about bringing food out of the earth. As shadows lengthen in the garden and the days grow darker, long stems of the yacon (Polymnia sonchifolia) growing in The ...

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