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Homes & Gardens
Drew Swainston

How to grow jicama – why you should consider this easy-to-grow, low-calorie, and flavorful root vegetable

A jicama edible tuber on a purple background.

Jicama may not be a popular crop in vegetable gardens, but there are many reasons to consider adding this historic vegetable to your plants for the upcoming year. With that in mind, we look at how to grow jicama from planting seeds to harvesting tubers.

The first question on many minds may be, what is jicama? It is a crop with a rich history that has been grown for thousands of years in Central America. The climbing plants develop edible underground tubers high in vitamins and antioxidants.

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