yacon – Gardens for Life

Beware Early Frost can Kill Your Ocas & Yacons

How are you doing folks, we are not having a Live Chat tonight as we are renovating the house. However, i just […]

Talk about a last minute harvest! In this video i harvested the last Yacons just before a fairly major frost last night. […]

To grow or not to grow. You don’t need a garden to grow food, you can simply use containers. Along with several […]

In this video we are harvesting the first Yacon tubers this Winter. Yacon is a tasty and easy to grow vegetable, long […]

Summer has just about arrived here in Ireland and with that our Summer Potted Plant Sale is in full swing. We have […]

Yacon Plants are available in late Spring. Crown cuttings (Starts) are available on our shop in the Winter. Yacon is another one […]

With the growing season well under way all those ancient edible tubers are starting to wake up from their long hibernation. We’d […]

Yacon is another one of those edible perennial tubers from the Andees. It is closely related to Jerusalem artichokes and the sunflower, […]