SweetMissDaisy
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Just wondering if anyone is growing Jicama, or do you keep it out of your garden due to the poisonous leaves and flowers?
Jicama
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boggybranch
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Hahahaha......the name sounds like an illegal herb.
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SweetMissDaisy
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Ha! True! 
It's actually quite good ... if I see it at the market and it looks good, I bring it home.
It's actually quite good ... if I see it at the market and it looks good, I bring it home.
hoodat
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I plan on growing it next year. It's quite easy here in San Diego and I have a hillside for it to sprawl on. Remember it takes a LOT of room. It will take your whole garden if you let it. This year I concentrated on getting my chayote in. It takes two years for that but after that I should have it year round. My chayote and jicama will have to fight it out for that hillside.
lesa
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hoodat, my Mom fell in love with Jicama, when she spent some time in SoCal. To me, they always tasted like raw potatoes?? I was thinking about planting a few for her- not sure if they could survive zone 4...good to know they sprawl. Maybe, I'll let her buy them in the market. Do they grow above or below ground. They look so potato like, I am imagining them underground??
wifezilla
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Jicama is delicious. I use it as a chip replacement since I am off excess carbs. My favorite ways to eat it are dipped in chunky blue cheese dressing or in hot queso dip
As for growing it. Not going to happen in Colorado. It needs a LONG season.
As for growing it. Not going to happen in Colorado. It needs a LONG season.
hoodat
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Jicama wouldn't work in upstate new York. You don't have a long enough growind season.lesa said:
It's a great vegetable but must be grown with caution. The leafy part of the plant is mildly poisonous but the beans that form could be very tempting for children and are highly poisonous, containing concentrated rotenone. Makers of organic insecticides often grow it to extract the rotenone from the seed.
