“Peruvian Earth Pear”
cultivating yakon makes your life better: you learn about an(other) amazing plant, you get the better body by working the earth and eating better food.
all you need is free time, free earth, and some yacón seeds or rhizome shoots:
you can also replant last year’s stem with some rhizome left.
unlike potatoes or topinambur, you can’t just leave bits in the ground and expect them to grow by themselves the next season. instead, it’s essential to find them a good place over winter: either in the cellar, or as a houseplant.