What to grow in the heat? JICAMA

One of the many heat tolerant crops we grow on the farm, jicama! in this short video I will discuss with you how to grow jicama in the summer in your garden with my proven Florida gardening tips.
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[saunyar]

Howdy from another Central FL homesteader!

[pn]

It’s a tropical plant. So definitely no problem in the heat.

[stevegerber]

I see that your jicama vines are spreading across the ground rather than growing on a trellis as I've seen in several other videos. Do the trailing vines ever root themselves into the ground where a node touched down and then will it form a tuber at that new point? I have some jicama seeds and will be growing it for the first time this summer so I'm curious if this might be a way to get more tubers. In most of the other videos I've watched the gardeners were typically just getting a single tuber per plant before fall frost. Obviously in your tropical environment jicama can grow year round but I'm in Virginia (z6b) and have about 150 frost free days which should be enough for some small to medium sized tubers.