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Yacon 'Inka Red' (Gourmet Roots)

Name: Yacon 'Inka Red' (Gourmet Roots)
Brand: Suttons
SKU: MH-69481
Price: 14.99 GBP
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (5 reviews)

6 Jumbo Plug Plants

KC7466

£14.99

80% (5 Reviews)

Unusual South American vegetable
Produces crunchy tubers with pear-like flavour!
Use in stir fries or salads

Despatch By The End Of March 2025

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‘Inca Red’ is a distinct but very flavoursome tubersome vegetable that is not a household name in the UK, but is very widely grown in South America, for its crunch and pear-like, sweet taste that lends itself well to that region’s culinary cuisine. Not too dissimilar to a potato, but with a texture like water chestnuts, add to stir fries, salads or roast with other root veg like parsnips and potatoes. Its juice can even be simmered to make a syrup not too far off honey or maple, while its natural indigestible sugar contents called Inulin make it suitable for diabetics, remaining pretty much calory free along the way. Grows with a bushy habit, with gorgeous looking harvests while its big luscious leaves will bring an Amazonian feel to vegetable beds or even plant borders. Height: 1.8m (6'). Spread: 100cm (39").

Growing Information

Grow plugs on in cool but frost-free conditions and plant out when all danger of frost has passed.

Plant outside in late May allowing 90cm (36”) between each plant. Cut the leaves back to about 4 inches above the crowns and lift whole plant with a fork. Separate the crowns from the tubers. The crowns are frost tender – pot up and grow on in a frost-free place to plant early next year. Brush the soil off tubers and leave in sun to dry for up to two weeks.

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Order Despatch

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Please note that when several items are ordered they may not all be delivered at the same time.

Delivery Charge

Standard Charge

Packet seed only will incur a carriage charge of £2.99.

All other products incur a carriage charge of £6.99.

If your order comprises of a combination of carriage charges then a combined carriage charge of £7.99 will be applied.

Live Plants

Suttons strives to ensure that all its plants are delivered to you in the perfect condition for planting. While the majority of our nursery plants cope well with slight delays in intransit, sadly, the time it takes to deliver to certain locations in the UK means that we can't guarantee this for some of our smaller plug products and tender bedding and vegetable lines, which do not respond well to the extra journey time. So regretfully while we offer the majority of our live plant offering nationwide, we are unable to ship plugs, begging plants and tender vegetable plants to the following areas: HS, IV41-IV49, IV51, IV55-56, KW15-KW17, PA34, PA41-48, PA60-PA78, PA80, PH40-PH44, TR21-TR24, ZE1-ZE3.

Non Standard Deliveries

Unfortunately like many companies in our industry we are currently only able to supply orders to UK based customers, excluding those in Northern Ireland. We are committed to finding a way that we can resume or normal services again as soon as possible. Please accept our apologies for any inconvience caused.

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