Re: transplanting yacon?

What part(s) of this plant are eaten?

--- Reeta Roo <reeta@copper.net> wrote:
> Hi Tanya,
> I've moved yacon twice, but a little later in the
> year, after the tops fell
> down. It was more like dividing. Harvested all the
> tubers and divided the
> crowns and gave a bunch away. My yacon hasn't
> bloomed yet either, but it
> already has new buds forming on the crowns. If yours
> are similar, I don't
> see why you couldn't dig them now and pot up the
> crowns or move them to
> another garden. Your plant sounds small enough that
> you could move the whole
> thing (heavy, tho!). I think the worst that would
> happen is that you'd lose
> the tops for this year. They'd be back in the
> spring. It's a pretty tough
> plant.
> Reeta
> Occidental, CA 
> 
> > From: tanyak@igc.org
> > Reply-To: tanyak@igc.org
> > Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:00:42 -0800
> > To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>,
> <permaculture-sf@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: transplanting yacon?
> > 
> > Has anyone successfully transplanted Bolivian
> sunroot (Polymnia edulis) at
> > this time of year? It's about 2 feet high and
> wide, hasn't flowered yet. My
> > options are to leave it in my old community garden
> plot (where it will
> > probably dry out and be composted), to dig up a
> few rhizomes and storage
> > roots, or to try to dig up and move the whole
> thing to a new community
> > garden plot.
> > 
> > Tanya Kucak
> > Palo Alto, California
> > 
> 


__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search
http://shopping.yahoo.com
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index