We also grew our own vegetables for Christmas dinner - rainbow carrots, stripy beetroot, Home Guard potatoes, swedes, and parsnips. Delicious!
Sunday, January 3, 2021
December 2020 - Yacon and Home Grown Christmas Dinner
With cold weather blanketing the country many of the crops are now finished, but one crop has been waiting for just this moment to shine. Yacon is a plant native to the Andes in South America, which looks like a small sunflower above ground, but below the soil it grows sweet tubers that taste a little like pear and have a texture like water chestnut. The plant is tender, so it grows all through the summer, and then when the first frosts wilt the foliage it is time to lift the plant and harvest the exotic tubers. We tried this for the first time this year, and found it a nice addition to our crops.
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