How to Grow Yacon: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

Smallanthus sonchifolius

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Guides

• Planting Yacon: Setting Out Crowns for a Long Frost-Free Season
• Yacon Care Through the Season: Water, Feed and Tall Brittle Stems
• Hilling Yacon: Why the Crown Keeps Climbing Out of the Ground
• Yacon Growing Calendar: The Year From Crown to Cured Tuber
• Yacon Problems: Bruised Tubers, Rotting Crowns and Winter Losses
• Harvesting Yacon: Lift After Frost, Then Cure the Tubers Sweet

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (8)

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.