How To: Grow a Jicama Vine
Step One: Find a lovely Jicama. One you fully intend on eating. Make sure it’s not irradiated — a Farmer’s Market of some sort is your best bet.
Step Two: Place Jicama on your counter and contemplate what to do with it. For a few weeks. Begin to worry what to do with it when it starts to sprout vines, kinda like potato eyes.
Step Three: Get creeped out when the vines get long enough to reach out and caress you while you’re cooking.
Step Four: Name it. Herbert is what I went with.
Step Five: Find a pot, mine still had some old soil in it. Partially fill pot with cactus soil, after reading on the Internet that Jicama needs really good drainage. Place the Jicama in pot so it’s top is a couple inches down from the rim. Put more cactus soil around the bulb. Realize you don’t have enough cactus soil and top it off with some compost mulch. Leave the bulb sticking out of a soil because you think it’s pretty.
Step Six: Put it in a sunny location and water sparingly. You don’t want the bulb to rot.
Step Seven: Worry when the vines start to dry up and die and notice that it has no real leaves yet. Decide that all the info that you read on the Internet was right and that Jicama is really hard to grow. Give up hope and leave it alone.
Step Eight: Realize that it’s starting to get really nice leaves. Feel your sense of accomplishment swell.
Step Nine: Allow your green thumb to take full credit of your awesome Jicama Vine. Decide you’ll worry about replanting it later, when it’s not so blastedly hot in AZ.
Notice: Jicama is highly toxic in most forms. The leaves and vines especially. I find mixed information on the toxicity of the pods. Apparently they’re fried and eaten in some cultures.
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great tutorial
maybe i will try it at home..
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Lol!! I laughed so hard at Steps 1–4! That’s exactly what happened!! And the wiggling vine did creep me out when I realized it was “looking” for something to attach to. Thanks for the info!