Yacon AKA Earth Apple - The PERENNIAL Tuber With AMAZING Potential

YACON is a tuber from the Andes with Huge potential , in this video we show you how we Grow, Propagate, Harvest & Store our Yacon and treat it as a replant perennial here in Zone 9a, South UK...
We also share a few ways we like to use Yacon and also what we grow around ourYacon bed.
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[@nigelhadley2402]

Great advice , just what needed.

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi Nigel, Glad it was helpful! We have a few more Yacon vids you might find interesting - heres our Yacon playlist ✌️🌿 kzbin.info/aero/PLOidPRQofoMO7DbnFE7dT9EQBNsKncF72&si=nU5bkT9f0X3XK1RH

[@joydapitan2590]

Very nice...God bless u

[@freedomforestlife]

Thank you - Appreciate you watching & commenting 💚✌️🌿

[@janicegame2372]

Thank you so much for your wonderful video, if only we could all be such an example to humankind, the world would be healed!!

[@freedomforestlife]

Thanks Janice - I'm stoked you can feel our passion - such a lovely comment to ready 🙏☺️✌️🌿

[@ponchovanillabean8074]

Love the view at 14:50.

[@familycookingchannel7122]

Very nice great sharing

[@freedomforestlife]

Thanks so much!

[@boli6445]

Very nice video. Thank you.

[@freedomforestlife]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿

[@jimmy7458]

Great stuff thankyou 🙏

[@freedomforestlife]

No problem 👍✌️🌿

[@markgibbons2108]

Will definitely give them a go trying to get as many peranual veg as possible

[@freedomforestlife]

You wont regret it Mark! thanks for watching..

[@joanflemmingkendrick1107]

An absolutely great video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge on these wonderful plants. Just subscribed! 🤗🌱🌿🥔

[@deborahwickham3058]

Thank you for all the info x

[@freedomforestlife]

You are welcome - thanks for watching ✌️🌿

[@rogerdodger5415]

Thanks for all the information! 🙏🙏🙏🙏 ✌️✌️✌️✌️

[@freedomforestlife]

My pleasure - thank you for watching/commenting 💚✌️🌿

[@genreraloverseergatitumach7959]

Watching from. Kenya East Africa I just planted two seedling hoping to grow more thanks

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi, that’s so awesome you are watching our vids in Kenya, thanks for much for saying hi 💚 and good luck with your Yacon… I hope you’ve found our videos interesting and I hope it grows very well for you 🙏✌️🌿

[@garywatson3102]

Excellent video, well done.

[@freedomforestlife]

Thanks Gary - glad you enjoy it - we’ve just making a new one too which we’ll have out very soon - thanks for your kind comment 🙏✌️🌿

[@veronicabaker7730]

Lovely video. Thank you for the information.

[@freedomforestlife]

Thank Veronica - glad you enjoy it 💚✌️🌿

[@rhoschellyn3240]

This has been really helpful! Thank you.

[@freedomforestlife]

You're very welcome! We just put out a new Yacon video today actually too, which might have a few different tips for you too ... Heres the link if you havent come across it yet kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5fHoqyBmteng6c Thanks so much for commenting 🙏✌️🌿

[@katipohl2431]

Here in Germany I harvested over 10kg of tubers per plant. Grown and stored in 60 l buckets with my own vermicompost mixture.

[@freedomforestlife]

Wow conragts Kati! what is your winter minimum winter temperature there in germany?

[@katipohl2431]

@@freedomforestlife Thank you for your friendly and fast reply. Last winter the temperature went down to minus twenty degrees but I store the big buckets in a cellar room with 9 degrees. Then I harvest one bucket after the other when needed and store the rhizomes in potting soil. Thanks to you I learned that it was good not to water the rhizomes. A Vietnamese KZbinr 'Mei Mei kitchen' made an interesting video about the 6 ways how she uses her Yacon. Some other people make tea from the dried leaves and in Austria you can buy Yacon Beer. Marmalade and other sweets are made too and I am looking for receipts. This year I started with my first 10 plants and will specialize on Yacon, trying to get more land. Our first frost came in October this year in Northern Germany. .

[@barbarabedward2565]

Love your video ,I grow Yacon but didn’t know how to cook it so thank you ❤

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi barbara, so glad your enjoying the videos - thank you for saying so. I do hope to do more videos in the future incorporating more cooking/using of our crops, particularlly the more unusual ones 😃✌️🌿

[@kcsingh942]

❤

[@Aviation_988]

I've just received some yacon in the post this week. I never heard of them until I saw your previous video on growing yacon. Looking forward to growing them next year

[@freedomforestlife]

That's awesome, so glad our vid has inspired you to grow them - Don't let your new grwoing tips get too wet over winter, best to pot them up, keep undercover and plant out in early spring - Good luck and let us know how they go ✌️🌿

[@daoph8091]

@@freedomforestlife where can I buy seeds please 🙏🌹

[@epdh89]

Love it ! Cumbria garden us a bit cooler… n frost etc … I guess extra mulch n fleese etc … perhaps pot them up for longer , plant out later.

[@freedomforestlife]

Good idea Ed - Once they've had a year to grow, I'd maybe try a heavy woodchip mulch on some plants in the ground to see how they go, but also divide/take some of the tips out and pot on to overwinter as a back up ... and a great trial too 💚✌️🌿

[@Jan-feelgood-forest-bathing]

Thanks, great info and I love seeing all the stages, I feel confident to just order some and grow now. Are there different varieties, and which do you recommend?

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi Feeelgood, thank you so much, glad the vid inspired you to grow! There are not any 'varieties' available most places in the world, there is the 'white' skinned that we have in the video and a red varietie sometimes sold as movado, we prefer the standard white skinned ones, the taste is abit differient, the red is almost abit savoury fresh and turns to more of a honey sweetness when stored, whereas the white cures abit sugur sweetness!

[@Dicko99]

Thanks for this informative video. I am in NZ and was wondering if I could replant at harvest and you answered that question.

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi Richard, glad to hear our video answered your questions 😊 we have made quite a few about Yacon, as we love it so much! Yes, you should be totally fine to do this in NZ, I would still recommend giving a good layer of woodchip mulch though, just to be safe if you did happen to get any cold snaps, but should be all good eitherway unless you are right down south or in a frost pocket. Plus It helps to keep the soil nice a loose for an easier harvest and gives a great feed too, so win win - thanks for watching ✌️🌿

[@subsd1133]

Great video. 50 yacons! Wow thats awesome. Im harvesting my yacons in the next few days. I'm not sure where I am planting for next year, I read online you can put rhizomes, growing tips into compost over winter and keep in garage untill spring. Do you think this will be ok?

[@freedomforestlife]

Subs d, thanks!! Yea you can def do that, you can probably get away with -7c outside with a heavy mulch..just pot them like you would any other plant and dont let them sit 'wet' all winter, just so the soil/compost feels slightly moist..when you cut them into tiny peices seems to encourage rotting more..thanks for watching!

[@monaraahmed7193]

👍👍👍

[@juned5442]

I need a growing tip :D - great video, I probably should have said where can I get a shoot to grow a new plant from..

[@freedomforestlife]

We’ve made other videos too June, check those out on our Yacon play list, then hit us up with any questions you still have ✌️🌿

[@juned5442]

@@freedomforestlife Many thanks, will do.

[@GardensforLife]

Great video! Nice gardens! We've been growing Yacon for a while now too, fantastic vegetable, one of our favorites. Would you like to swap a crown for another variety? Do you grow any other Andean or perennial vegetables like Mashua or Oca? Have an abundant new year and keep up the inspirational work. Good luck from Ireland :D

[@davawenyabarnt3234]

This is my second year to harvest my yacón plant. It’s purple. Wish I had a yellow one.

[@joanflemmingkendrick1107]

@GardensforLife . I will be harvesting mine here in Ireland for the second year this year, 2023, that I purchased from you. I am so delighted with what I have bought from you so far. 🤗🫠

[@lesleyobrien3907]

Thanks for the video. Very informative. I harvested my yacon a few days ago and was quite pleased with the results. It’s my first year growing them and I imagine next year will be even better as the plant matures. I struggle to see the difference between the tubers and the tips as they are the same colour. Mines the red variety. Any further tips you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Lesley

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi Lesley, thank you, oh cool, we grow the red one too, we call that the honey one, as that one tends to cure with abit more of a honey flavour than sugur! if you lift your plant and maybe wash it off to make things clearer, the tips are grouped at the bottom of the stem nearish the soil level, they are little nobbly bits that look like groups of buds.. the tubers tend to hang like we showed in the video and are smooth and fairly roundish...we have another video we did a year or two ago which might show things slightly clearer possibly!

[@brianoliver5640]

Awesome vid man, I will be hunting yacon tubers for next season, apparently it grows well here in the sub tropical climate in Queensland Australia, I really dig your guys enthusiasm for gardening and nature, keep it up. 🐝🪱🌈🌧🌞

[@freedomforestlife]

Thanks Brian! Oh thats epic, i bet you can grow some amazing plants out there!!! Can you grow both tropical and temperate plants in different seasons all year round? Thanks for your kind words, Peace!

[@brianoliver5640]

@@freedomforestlife we are blessed in the area where our farm is we have temperate winter subtropical spring tropical summer which we don’t grow much it’s too hot 🥵 a few eggplant and melons and autumn is a mix between subtropical and temperate so most things are grown autumn winter spring 🌼🐝🪱🌈🌧🌞

[@janemeloy9488]

I`m very pleased to find your videos, so much information !! I bought some Yacon plants about 6inches tall, from a well known plant & seed catolugue, they`re goog and healthy looking. My question is, am I too late to plant them in the ground or shall i put them in pots for this year ??

[@freedomforestlife]

hi Jane, I’d say it’s best to put them out, so they can spread as much as they please. Things always do better in the ground than in pots we find - depending on where you are/your winter lows, will be the decider for where they can stay out with good mulch all winter or be repotted and brought in after harvest time… even if you don’t get a good harvest this year, but can mulch and leave in for next year, should make the plants stronger for next season by planting out now - depending on. climate again, some people say it’s best not to harvest for the first year anyway to let the plant grow on - we harvested for year 1, but years 2,3 etc defo bigger yields 😊✌️🌿

[@peteleach4383]

At last a useful Yacon film without an annoying American voiceover. Just bought some small Yacon to plant in my garden in Haute Vienne. France. 1 Question what is a strawberry tree?

[@freedomforestlife]

HI Pete - Glad to hear you are trying Yacon - its an AMAZING versitile crops... we actually have a whole playlist of videos about Yacon that you might enjoy, I'll put the link in here for you. Glad you found this video useful though 💚 Strawberry Trees are beautiful - from about 3 -5 yrs old they can produce fruits, similar to wild strawberries, only bigger. As the trees mature they have beautiful red coloured bark and wood and they are evergreen too ✌️🌿 kzbin.info/aero/PLOidPRQofoMO7DbnFE7dT9EQBNsKncF72&si=iCBh6OpkG42cUi2T

[@sonamghale6775]

Iam from nepal.we have lots of yacon in our field but we don't know uses of yacon...please can you make uses of yacon

[@freedomforestlife]

Hello, thanks for watching, its a honour to have you, nepal looks amazing...we will make another video about the uses of yacon okay...Does it go naturally there or you plant it?

[@mattsmash93]

I know these are usually propagated by rhizomes, but I just received some seeds in the mail today. Hopefully, it'll go fine.

[@freedomforestlife]

Hey Matthew, oh nice, they dont usually get to the seed stage here before the frost so we havnt had seeds on ours, thats cool though, if they grow okay you can choose the ones with the best traits to plant again each year! let us know how it goes..

[@MrKholhring]

Hi! I have watch your previous video on making syrup..please kindly tell if you have found out the life-span of the syrup by now

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi Tetea, I haven't found out any more about it, but ours seems to stay fine for between 1-3 months in a well sealed bottle in the fridge and a little less in the cupboard ... if we don't use it up sooner than that anyway! Thanks for watching✌️🌿

[@SgtScourge]

Do the stems root like tomatoes and potatoes? I was considering planting in a potato grow bag where you keep adding soil and unrolling the bag to raise the edges as it grows up and it roots along that stem.

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi. No, they don't really have roots like tomatoes, the tubers are the roots, a bit more like how potatoes grow though yes, they'd need at least a goof foot or more depth of soil to get good size tubers. 💚✌️🌿

[@bridgittegarcia660]

thise is nice I plant may yacon in september thise year what month can i harvest mine 1st time planting it pls pls

[@freedomforestlife]

Bridgitte, hello! Well done for planting the yacon, well we plant ours in winter, here they take around 5.5 months from when they grow out the ground until we harvest them, what part of the world are you in?

[@bridgittegarcia660]

cavite philippines 🥰🥰🥰

[@caterinadigarbo1725]

Are you considering selling Yacon surplus crowns from division? I've never tried it and would be keen to give it a go... Fantastic video, very informative and soo inspiring! Thank you!

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi Caterina, Eventually - yes we totally plan to start selling quite a few of the plants we grow here .. we are just trying to get ourselves set up for it all here still, so cant yet confirm if it will be for the coming season or next ... but watch this space !!! So glad you enjoyed the vid too.. thank you for saying so 🙏✌️🌿

[@davawenyabarnt3234]

@@freedomforestlife: WOW! I’d love to buy some. I just harvested my purple / red yacón. I would like to have the yellow / white one.

[@leslielogic]

How do you harden them to help them sweeten up?

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi, we just bring them inside, in the warm for a few days, they soft slightly and go sweet - to store I prob wouldn’t do this first, only just before you would like to eat 😋💚✌️🌿

[@TheArjun1373]

HI, is there a difference between Yacon and sweet Potato, or they are same?

[@freedomforestlife]

They are very different … different plant family, different texture, taste etc, the only thing similar is the way they look/shape of tuber. Hope that helps and thanks for watching ✌️🌿

[@leepoll1]

Thanks for this clear and very informative video. You mentioned leaving a tuber on with the growing tip when re-planting. Any particular reason for that? Cheers

[@freedomforestlife]

Glad you liked the video. In our experience we find leaving one or more of the tubers attached to the plant, makes the plant grow bigger and stronger the following season as its the energy storage of the plant. You will often find some of the smaller tubers arent really worth harvesting, so we just leave these them attached.

[@robertjones2811]

Good to -5° Oh!😃 -5°C that is. Oh.😒

[@MsDeriousGirl]

Do you think your Yacon has survived the super cold patches this winter? Brrrr

[@freedomforestlife]

Yes - defo in the bed we woodchip mulched - not so sure about our compost only bed - You might enjoy this more recent video too ... ✌️🌿 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3eTlZ2erdGHgLc

[@MsDeriousGirl]

@@freedomforestlife oh brilliant, I'd missed that. Thank you :)

[@Happylife7675]

I want its seeds. Anybody help me ?

[@f_man5624]

Is it true that yacon can grow by wood cutting(instead of crown cutting)?

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi, can't say for sure, as its not something we've tried - Sorry- Thanks for watching ✌️🌿

[@f_man5624]

@@freedomforestlife what about yacon seed? In my country, there are online seller that sell yacon seed. I'm curious if it can grow...

[@freedomforestlife]

@@f_man5624 yes, it should grow from the seed 👍👍👍

[@jasonparker3351]

The yacon I grow are way taller. In my garden the stems grow up to 14ft

[@freedomforestlife]

Hi jason, Sound great - Where abouts in the world are you?

[@jasonparker3351]

@@freedomforestlife Im in New Zealand, little place called Whanganui on the west coast, nrth island

[@freedomforestlife]

@@jasonparker3351 ahh, makes sense … you have an AMAZING growing climate there 💚 l lived in Raglan for 7 yrs .. used to love driving around the Taranaki peninsula - such a beautiful coastline - miss the growing climate too 🍀✌️🌿

[@jasonparker3351]

@@freedomforestlife the climate here is said to be sub tropic, hot in summer and over the years our winters have become milder, havnt seen a good frost here in town where I am for years. Whanganui sits in a valley right on the coast with a river running through it so we kind of have our own climate here

[@jorgemartin7697]

Hello mate I grow yacon in the north of Spain and here it grows very well I have the white variety and the red variety, the red one is a little sweeter and it keeps better I also grow a variety of Mexican avocado that supports -8 degrees and produces delicious fruit, if your minimum is -5 I could have them there perfectly a greeting

[@freedomforestlife]

HelloJorge, oh wow thats epic, ive been trying to find some seeds for a hardy mexican variety for years with no luck, im not sure what the last part of your message was meant to say, but i would love to buy a handfull of seeds if you would be willing!

[@jorgemartin7697]

@@freedomforestlife I have already sent a lot of avocado seeds to the UK and they are growing happily, especially in the London area

[@jorgemartin7697]

@@freedomforestlife I sent you an email with some photos of my Mexican avocados and some other information, I hope KZbin doesn't delete it this time

[@davawenyabarnt3234]

@@jorgemartin7697: Do you still have avocado seeds and a white / yellowy yacón for me to buy? I live in Portugal.

[@jorgemartin7697]

@@davawenyabarnt3234 Hello mate yes I still have them do you have any way of contact? email, in-ta-gran- or something like that??