{"id":30,"date":"2007-01-18T21:43:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T07:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=30"},"modified":"2007-01-18T21:43:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T07:43:52","slug":"more-harvesting-jicama-and-yacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2007\/01\/more-harvesting-jicama-and-yacon\/","title":{"rendered":"More harvesting – Jicama and Yacon"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 11, harvested the small row of Jicama in the upper garden. This was totally an experiment. I had bought jicama in northern california and liked it, a crunchy and mildly sweet addition to a salad. I had no idea how it would grow here in Ahualoa. It was planted in June, so it took more than 6 months until it died back ready for harvest. The good news is it made huge, beautiful tubers:<\/p>\n

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The bad news: these jicama are perhaps too<\/em> crunchy (one might say gritty), too watery, and terribly bland. Perhaps they have to grow in a drier or sunnier climate to get sweet.<\/p>\n

January 18: Harvested the second of the 2 yacon plants in the upper garden. Absolutely incredible – i pulled a total of 55 lbs. of tubers from the ground, from one plant!<\/em> And they’re delicious. I read that yacon get sweeter if you allow them to rest for a month or more after you harvest, and that appears to be very true. Right out of the ground, they are super juicy but only vaguely sweet. After resting a month, they are noticeably sweeter.<\/p>\n

Along with the massive tubers, this one plant also produced enough purplish “planting tubers” to start 40 baby yacon in pots in the greenhouse.<\/p>\n

I’ve fed the jicama and the yacon to my family, and the yacon is the hands-down winner. Nobody wants to eat the jicama, although our neighbor Theresa took some to stir-fry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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