![\"Yacon](\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_7246p1.jpg\")
<\/a>The Yacon is a vegetable from South America that produces sweet tubers. It is quite an unusual plant for this country but we thought we would give it a go. As you can see from the photos, it grows quite tall – this is over 5ft high.<\/p>\nThis view was taken using HDR techniques but I had to use some unusual blending techniques as the 3 exposure set showed a lot of wind movement, but a single raw ‘pseudo’ HDR image had some burnt out sky. I am quite satisfied with this result.<\/p>\n
This next view is from a different angle and taken in portrait mode. The processing is much the same:<\/p>\n
Finally I tried a few views of flowers. These were not too successful due to the wind blowing the plant about. However I did manage one reasonable image:<\/p>\n You can see the full set of photos in the Garden Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year we have tried growing Yacon (Smallanthus sonchifoliu) in our vegetable garden: The Yacon is a vegetable from South America that produces sweet tubers. It is quite an unusual plant for this country but we thought we would give it a go. As you can see from the photos, it grows quite tall – … Continue reading “Yacon in the garden”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3938,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions\/3938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>A pleasing result that shows context.<\/p>\n<\/a>The flower looks a little like a sunflower, albeit smaller. This is not surprising as this plant belongs to the same family.<\/p>\n