{"id":28,"date":"2006-12-15T20:19:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T06:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=28"},"modified":"2010-10-25T20:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T06:00:14","slug":"first-yacon-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2006\/12\/first-yacon-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"First Yacon Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today it was finally time to harvest our first yacon plants.\u00a0 You&#8217;re supposed to wait until it flowers and dies back.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been flowering, and after a huge rain recently, the branches finally fell down.\u00a0 I could see the yacon tubers bulging right out of the ground.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been 6 months since these went in the ground.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what the garden looked like and the one fallen-down yacon plant:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00587-garden.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00587-garden_small.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00584-yacon.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00584-yacon_small.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was quick and easy to dig around the roots and pull out.\u00a0 I was amazed to see the size of the tubers.\u00a0 Interestingly, they didn&#8217;t point outward, but instead downward, packed close together.\u00a0 I guess that&#8217;s due to the fact we got these plants after they had lived in a pot for a long time\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the root ball, and the whole bucket of yummy tubers from just one plant!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00589-yacon.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00589-yacon_small.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00591-yacon.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00591-yacon_small.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00592-yacon.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-2\/DSC00592-yacon_small.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it was finally time to harvest our first yacon plants.\u00a0 You&#8217;re supposed to wait until it flowers and dies back.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been flowering, and after a huge rain recently, the branches finally fell down.\u00a0 I could see the yacon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2006\/12\/first-yacon-harvest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crops","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}