Growing Yacon: Best Varieties, Planting Guide, Care, Problems and Harvest

What looks like a potato, grows like Jerusalem artichoke, and tastes like a fruit? Yakon! If you’ve never tried growing this unique tuber, it’s time you did. Sometimes called ground pear, earth apple, and Bolivian sun root, yacon has a flavor you wouldn’t expect from a tuber. It tastes like a mix between watermelon, apples...