5 Tips How to Grow a Ton of Jicama in One Container or Raised Garden Bed

In this video, I give you my 5 top tips on how to grow a ton of jicama.

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Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane - the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let's get into it! Cheers, Mark :)

[travelncg]

Tip from an old Mexican man. Dont grow it on a trellis. Grow it on the grpund training it into a cirle. Every so many leaves is a node that will root. You will get more jicama undeground at each place it roots.

You will get a much bigger harvest that growing up a trellis.

He said "if you grow it up the trellis you will only get leaves. Grow asainst the grpund gets more tubers"

[jlilly]

I planted 3 plants as an experiment last year. I’m in West Virginia with hard red clay soil. They grew to full size and my only regret is not planting more. I ate them raw. I like them a lot. I’m in growing zone 6B. I will plant two 60 foot rows this year. Yum yum.

[rogeez]

Best enjoyed raw with lime and chili powder, in small slices! Never heard of it cooked tho, or even compared to potatoes.

[ALong-foso]

In South East Asia it’s called sengkuang or Chinese turnip. It’s popular here eaten raw as a salad by itself. A very popular salad here in SEA is called rojak, consisting of cubed jicama, cucumber, bean sprouts, crushed peanuts, chilli dressed with a prawn paste, sugar, lime dressing. It’s savoury, it’s sweet and sour with a zip to it, provided by the chilli.

[tamarabrennan]

Hello there, I appreciate what I learn from you. We eat jicama a lot of ways here in Mexico, mostly raw cut into thin sticks in salads. I just started fermenting it and that is really tasty. Just make a salt brine and submerge thin sticks of Heee-cama. I also use the brine from fermented carrots to speed up the process and give it an even better flavor. It's a pre-biotic which means the root feeds gut bacteria (good ones) and helps your microbiome.

[zeal]

We generally eat it raw! It's refreshing and sweet specially if chilled prior to peeling! Enjoy!

[DheeBheee]

Like most of the Fabaceae family, Jicama is a nitrogen-fixing plant. At 8:55 you can see a rhizobia root nodule on the first Jicama that Mark pulls up.

If you are in to making your own pesticides, I imagine the leaves and beans work great (in something like JADAM JHS), just be careful.

[Don_Vader]

WOW I was born and live in Mexico and I didnt even know the plant part or beans were poisonous! Thanks Mark. <3

[jenmae]

Its never a sign of ignorance to mispronounce something, it just means you learnt it in text, from reading, rather than hearing it. Thanks for the fix, you graceful person!❤️💕

[TheWendyclarkson]

I would love to see a video of meals made just from your land and showing us what you made!

[robertoh.]

never seen jicamas that big! we eat them in my country El Salvador, we eat it raw, very i miss them, hard to find in Victoria.

[arizonaames]

Thank you for this marvelous video on the mighty Jicama! It is a staple in our Arizona home! We slice it raw and put it in our green salad! Plus you can ferment it as well. Yummy! It has many different flavors. Sometimes it tastes like a Pear and sometimes just very earthy. I came to your video because I want to grow them myself. I had no idea they came from a seed. I will try to grow it next growing season. I have family outside of Melbourne and I have shared this video with them! Thank you for your terrific videos. I will now start from your first videos and learn as much as I can.

[ritabsal]

I LOVE Jicama! I live on Guam and used to harvest these, they grow wild here, and eat them straight from the ground: they are yummy!

Thank you for this video!

[geraldineheimy]

Jicama we eat it raw by itself in Philippines, the smallest are the sweetest. You can make pickles for the big ones.

[RoyHolder]

Wow those Jicama are huge, well done growing those beauties! :)

[TheQNSzzz]

I just started planting veg on my balcony in UK today - Chanteray carrots and kale. Thanks for your enthusiasm and down to earth (😁) approach to veg growing. 👍

[saimonbautista]

Bean waiting for this Vid for a long time. Thanks Mark!

[porit]

Always love learning things from you! Cheers!

[corybennett]

Great video. Thank you for all the great information you put out. Have learned so much about growing in the sub tropics from you.thank you again

[Mohawks_and_Tomahawks]

Love your videos Mark! Not only do I get great tips, but I get introduced to new plants I've never heard of, like Jicama!
Learning with a smile, Bless you guys! 💖