Vegetables · Warm
Yacon
Asteraceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 80 cm
- USDA zones
- 6a–11b
- Frost-sensitive
- yes
- Growth duration
- 26 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:raised-bed mix
- Drainage (prefers)
- normal
Seed & start
Pre-culture recommended
Start indoors / cold frame first, transplant into the raised bed later.
Stachi's tip
Yacon is the Andean tuber: sweet as pear, crunchy as apple, low-calorie. 26-week season, frost-sensitive like potato. Harvest the big tubers before the first frost, let them cure 2 weeks in fresh air to sweeten. Insider tip for diabetic-friendly cooking.
Sowing
No sowing weeks recorded.
Transplanting
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
No fixed companion partners — easy to mix.
Avoid these neighbours
No known conflicts.
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-27 Phase 7 expansion
Products mentioned in this post
- Plantura organic tomato seed set (10 varieties)Open-pollinated, good germination — robust for raised beds.
- Organic tomato seed set, 14 varieties
- Organic heirloom tomato seed set (Demeter, 12 varieties)
- Organic vegetable seed set, 10 varietiesCucumber, tomato, beetroot, broccoli, carrot, chard & more.