Root & Crops & Tubers· Pachyrhizus erosus
A leguminous root crop producing crisp, sweet, edible tubers eaten raw or cooked. Native to Central America, now cultivated across Southeast Asia. The vine and seeds are toxic -- only the tuber is consumed.
Beste Bodenarten: sandy loam, loam
pH-Bereich: 5.5 - 7.5 (optimal: 6.5)
Drainage: good
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Remove flowers and developing seed pods to redirect energy into tuber growth -- increases yield by up to 50%.
As a legume, jicama fixes nitrogen and improves soil for subsequent crops in rotation.
Harvest before first frost; tubers damaged by freezing temperatures become watery and discolored.
Jicama typically takes 150 days from planting to harvest. Seeds germinate in about 10 days. The best planting season is spring, early_summer.
Jicama grows best in sandy loam, loam soil with a pH of 5.5-7.5. Good drainage is required.
Jicama grows best at 22-30°C. Frost tolerance: none. Heat tolerance: high.
Jicama yields approximately 25,000 kg/hectare under good conditions.
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