Delicious sweet and juicy root, eaten raw, quenches thirst and is still very healthy! Your garden and you deserve this wonder!
Reminds of apple and pear, with many medicinal properties, especially for diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure, regulates blood sugar, weight loss. It is a pre-biotic, that is, it has sugars that are consumed by good intestinal flora, increasing immunity and improving the digestive system and physical disposition. It can produce potatoes weighing more than 1 kilo and several kilos per plant in soft soil with lots of litter (dry leaves, bush trunks) and some shade. The pink rhizomes in the center of the root are the "seeds" for planting, and the juicy potatoes, which have no sprouting buds, are for eating.
TO PLANT place the rhizomes in soft, fertilized and well-drained soil, spaced 60 x 60cm, with plenty of straw or dry leaves in a place with up to 50% shade. Its natural stratum is MEDIUM, that is, it will like the shade of corn planted close to it, well spaced, for example. Prefers morning sun and afternoon shade. If it's dry, it's worth irrigating to have big potatoes. The biggest ones are the sweetest. It has a cycle of around 8 months. After flowering in autumn, the plants dry and the roots are ready to be harvested and consumed. They can remain in the ground through the winter months until new growth begins. From each plant you can get 3 to 8 new seedlings and you can eat from 300g to 20kg of a single plant.!!!! During the off-season, you can use leaf tea with similar medicinal properties.
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