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Yacon 'Inka Red' (Gourmet Roots)Smallanthus sonchifoliusPeruvian Ground Apple, Bolivian Sunroot

6 Jumbo Plug Plants

KC7466

Beds and Borders
£14.99

Offers tubers with a delightful pear-like crunch!

South American vegetable with a twist

A great ingredient for both stir-fries and salads

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‘Inka Red’ is a unique, deciduous, tuberous vegetable. It is more commonly grown in South America and is much loved for its sweet pea like taste and crunchy texture. Visibly it looks like the traditional sweet potato yet has the flesh of a water chestnut. This Yacon generates bushy growth and huge, glossy leaflets – they add an exotic feel to tropical themed gardens and brighten up dull and lifeless flowerbeds. It will spread to around 100cm and grow in height to 1.8m, you can extract the juice and use it to create a sweet syrup or chop up and add to stir fries, salads or even roast with other root veggies.

Grow plugs on in cool but frost-free conditions and plant out when all danger of frost has passed.

Plant outside in late May allowing 90cm (36”) between each plant. Cut the leaves back to about 4 inches above the crowns and lift whole plant with a fork. Separate the crowns from the tubers. The crowns are frost tender – pot up and grow on in a frost-free place to plant early next year. Brush the soil off tubers and leave in sun to dry for up to two weeks.

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