Yacon · Fanling, North District, Hong Kong
When to plant yacon in Fanling
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Fanling, on your chosen risk.
First autumn frost
no autumn frost
The far end of the outdoor season.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Fanling
Each window is a range, not a single day. Earlier in the range buys you a longer season; later in it buys you a safer one.
Yacon through the year
Against the frost risk in Fanling
Why these dates
Plant rhizomes after the last frost. Lift when the first frost blackens the tops, and store the crowns frost-free for replanting.
Top growth is killed at 0C. The tubers survive a light frost in the ground but not a freeze, so they are lifted promptly.
Seed packets and extension guides express timing as weeks either side of the last spring frost, because that is the only reference point that travels. Yacon are timed with planting out 1 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Fanling.
Hardiness is not the obstacle here. Fanling is zone 11a, comfortably inside the range this crop is rated for, so an established plant should come through an average winter without protection.
Also in Fanling
Other vegetables to time
Growing yacon in Fanling
How much frost will yacon tolerate?
Top growth is killed at 0C. The tubers survive a light frost in the ground but not a freeze, so they are lifted promptly.