SALE- YACON (Peruvian ground apple)

[genie]

YACON (Peruvian ground apple) one of the ancient crops of the Inca's
All profit from the sale is used to fund the set up of a new Africa permaculture garden project and training.

Cost: $6.00 and $6.50 postage.

BOTANICAL NAME: Smallanthus sonchifolius (formerly Polymnia sonchifolia).
Its a great plant for permaculture gardens and for use in edible landscapes.

This decorative, highly productive plant deserves a top spot in your garden

A large perennial plant with beautiful large velvety leaves that produces masses of large edible tubers. Very Hardy but not invasive. Easy to harvest. Up to 2 metres high.

The plants start from reddish rhizomes which are produced at the base of the stem.

These rhizomes aren’t the tubers that you eat. The larger tubers that you eat grow further out from the rhizomes and are about the size and shape of sweet potatoes. I planted a couple of rhizomes about 7 months ago and I have just harvested several buckets of tubers from just one plant. My largest one was about 1 ½ kgs.

The tubers are harvested once the tops have started to die back in winter. The tubers are best stored for a couple of weeks after harvest to develop its maximum sweetness. The sweet Creamy/amber coloured tubers are crunchy and have dark skin.

They can be eaten raw as a sweet crunchy snack or mixed in a fruit salad. It can be boiled or baked as a nutritious vegetable. I like to use it in stir frys as it retains some of it sweet crunchy taste after cooking.

Our family’s favorite is fresh, cut into slices like apples, chopped up in a fruit salad or cooked into a low calorie syrup. It has exceptional health benefits. I am finding it is a great help in controlling hunger and sugar cravings.

Not only does it make a great contribution in the vegetable garden. I think it is also a great survival food that ought to be tucked away even in an ornamental garden.
Check this out…..

There is a great fact sheet ‘YACON GROWING INFORMATION’ on the Green Harvest web site

‘Under Rare food plants shop’. http://www.greenharvest.com.au/Plants/yacon_info.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacon_syrup

Have a look at the Daley’s Nursery web site. They have an information video about Yacons:

http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/Perennialveg/yacon.htm

[johnw]

Hi Genie, have you still got Yacon for sale? I live on the Gold Coast also and are after some . Cheers, John

[adrians]

the best things we have made with yacon is deep fried yacon crisps.. they were awesome. We used a food processor to cut thin slices then deep fried till brown...

[eco4560]

I had some recently that had been dried. It was very yummy and a good way to store the excess that happens when you lift a whole plant.

[abdullah]

any of this still available?

[bluesapphire]

I would also like some if still available

[andrew curr]

should be shooting soon come a\nd getum
PLH
andrew

[bluesapphire]

Thanks Andrew I'll do that. would next weekend suit you?
glad to see you're home
Cheers
Cathy

[andrew curr]

bring ya favourite fork
cheers
andrew

[leila]

Would like to buy some of your yacon tubers, what is the procedure? I am in Arizona.
Leila