I love Jerusalem artichokes and I love them in soups. I add carrots to my soups, along with a good helping of freshly grated ginger. I find that the ginger helps reduce the rude results of eating these delicious little knobs!
I love sunchokes, but I have certainly experienced the unpleasurable sensation they can produce at the rear end. Fermentation is a good strategy. Another method is through increased exposure: as you increase your dose, your gut microbes will gradually adjust to this new food source and things will balance out. It's similar to getting used to beans. They're worth the effort!
@@shannonfisk506 I don't think so, sunchokes contain a unique form of starch that your gut microbes aren't used to. So they get a little stressed out and produce gas as a by-product, which comes out of our bodies as flatulence. If you expose them to sunchokes regularly, they become used to it and the farts go away!
I just love Jerusalem Artichoke. I cut the tubers like you do, put some salt, pepper, olive oil and put it in the oven. I like to eat it with fermented cabbage in the winter. Other times I mix it with potatoes and asparagus. I plant Jerusalem Artichoke around one part of my garden as an edible hedge and most of my crop I give to my hens during winter. Eggs production is much more increased.
Which part do you give your hens? I recently acquired some chickens and they dug up some tubers that were growing close by but didn't eat them. Do they eat the leaves?
@@mindimoom9142 I don't know about the leaves. I never tried it. I give to my hens for some years now, one meal/day of fresh grated tubers, or sometimes I just smash the tubers in front of them with a hammer and they quickly eat it. I've noticed the Jerusalem artichoke is a good mineral source that improve eggs production during winter month. And the hens just love it + swiss chard + kale. If you eat the tubers fresh in a salad you'll notice they are very similar to an apple. In fact in my area it is also known as Earth apple, Pig apple or Topinambur and was used as feed for cattle and pigs. Just in the recent years people rediscovered it as a great prebiotic food and a big help for people with diabetes illness.
In Estonia we call them "Maapirn", its in English "Land pear". These are extremely healthy vegetables. Add them into your salats as much you can. Make for Children these artichoke snaks, like carrots pieces, they are tasty in any condition :) Sometimes they are very sweet and sometimes very low tasty. They provide few calories, 34 kcal per 100 g, but are rich in minerals, containing potassium, phosphorus, magnesium and calcium compounds, as well as B group vitamins.
Thanks for this. I live in USA and recently rediscovered gardening as something to do instead of smoking tobacco, while im quitting. This is my first season and I know i got started late, so I've been looking for something to more crops that are hardy against frost. Ill be planting sun choke soon, now. After explaining no dig techniquesand sharing some of your videos to my landlord, hes given me even more of the property to grow on.
I grow these in my orchard mainly as super easy fodder to feed treat my chickens, goats & horses. I just cut some leafy stems & flowers as treats throughout Summer (my animals eat every bit! Stems too) It’s just a bonus my family gets the tubers in winter =) We grow sunflowers for feed too, same thing… every animal loves it, no waste. If you have the space, Sunchokes are fodder gold for livestock to get through late Summer when fields get bare.
The greens contain around 15% protein and 15% fiber, makes them a great food for most herbivores. The leaves also contain trace amounts of Salicylic acid (raw aspirin) and Coumarin (raw Coumadin). It takes good extraction and extreme concentration to get near medicinal strength. The leaves can be used just like grape leaves in Mediterranean wrap recipes. The course hairy texture disappears after just a few minutes of cooking and they are so tender.
Hello Charles, Here in Germany these plants are called Topinambur (Jerusalem artichokes) and once you have them in your garden you will never get rid of them. They grow in my chicken coop and give the animals protection. I don't want them in the vegetable garden because the voles like to eat the Jerusalem artichokes. I find your fermented products very interesting. I love them on chips and fresh in salads. For chips, they are finely shaved, mixed well with a tablespoon of olive oil, salted a little and dried on baking paper in the oven at around 100°C. Depending on the temperature, it takes about an hour. Absolutely delicious! In the cool season, they can be dried well in the slightly heated wood-fired oven with the roasting oven door slightly open. All the best! Ursula
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks so much for making this video. Rest assured that you won’t get the ‘farts’ if you cook them appropriately. Just slice them thinly & soak them in salted water overnight, before [deep or stir or air] frying them. The PRC Chinese soaked them in salted water for a whole week! Anyway, I sliced them thinly, immersed them in salted water for 1.5 day, rinsed, patted dry and then placed them in the air fryer with oil till golden brown. No gas. No gas at all. All best & thank you so much for your videos. They are useful & enjoyable.
I was given a single tuber from Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's Park Farm whilst visiting to celebrate the 20th anniversary of "River Cottage". I've just replanted the descendants of that tuber in our new garden. Amazing plants.
Thank you for doing such a positive video about these. I see so many people put off of growing such a staple crop because of silly comments on places like fb. I grow them in pots, and they are fab for limited space. After harvesting I just pop one back in with the compost - so it will be a free harvest really every time after. I have never tasted a soup flavour like it! So now all mine is harvested the freezer is full of soup. I have some red/pinky ones, and some more cream colour like yours. They are amazing roasted, in stir-fries and I also love them raw where they kind of remind me of the texture of fresh coconut. Take care, and thanks again!
Thanks so much for your kind expose on sunchokes ...if only every vegetable was this easy to grow with a bountiful harvest! I've found that since they are so plentiful, to shorten cleaning time, I just do a thick peeling of them - this way I don't inadvertently bite a stone in a crevice! I live a simple lifestyle and am so grateful for the veggies that are available during that hungry gap. BTW they can be roasted too with olive oil, garlic, carrots and any other root veggies you have. And at this time kale starts regrowing and then there is enough for dinner :). Thank again Charles! PS I don't put the cuttings in my regular compost bin or they would regrow- just toss them in a separate pile out of the way.
One of my favorites to grow :) I have 6 varieties now and sell them mail order in the US . Some varieties like White Fuseau and Beaver Valley are easier to clean, they're hardly knobby
Aside from the useful information, I also love the clear joy with which you approach your gardening, harvest and cooking. It makes your video a joy to watch. Thank you for sharing!
I have wanted to add this wonderful perennial food to our garden. You have encouraged me to finally go ahead and do it this year. Thank you (as always), Mr Dowding.
Love it - We are having a slightly windier week here, following tidying our JA bed the other day and getting a good harvest. We grow a much straighter variety, I think it might be 'White Fuseau' they are much easier to clean and prepare for the kitchen, they taste AMAZING, I can send you a few tubers if youd like to try this variety and see how they compare ? We've had the knobblier ones too, but found the straight so much more of a pleasure to work with. 💚✌🌿
Thank you for sharing how you grow these, and for your reassurance that it's possible to grow them without them completely taking over a bed. That's my hesitation at the moment, so I'm debating growing them in big pots. I love the idea of making pickles with them too.
They are full of prebiotics! ;) Getting ready to harvest mine now, too. They are also so very easy to share. I got them for free from a neighbor and I've shared the slips many times over!
Canadian here. I grew up with these and didn't even know there was another kind of artichoke for many years 😄. I love your hat in this episode. It reminds me of my grandfather, who grew beautiful gardens. -Em
Bardzo dziękuję za przepisy i rady odnośnie topinamburu.Mam podobny topinambur tylko nie gruzełkowaty tylko raczej owalny .Pozdrawiam .Polska pozdrawiam ❤❤❤
I'm pretty sure I've seen that growing wild around here (it's native over here in the midwest USA). Had no idea it was grown for food all over the world. Thanks for the great info!
I’m having a catch up of your videos during my time off and loved this one. I find the gardening ones in general soooo helpful but I have the soft spot for kitchen antics 💚💛
I have both growing next to each other on my allotment, the Jerusalem variety is great as a winter crop, apart from the windy effects if you eat too much, it is a very good heavy cropper, great roasted like potatoes or used in a slow cooked stew
Before I started doing no-dig, I ran through my Jerusalem artichoke patch with my rototiller. I now have them all over my garden, and will never lack for this food source. They're quite tasty either raw or cooked.
Another great video ! I learned a lot because I know very little about artichoke. I really enjoy when the video finish in the kitchen because there is a lot to learn there as well.
Today I could not believe it Charles. My garden have been under 2 feet of solid ice all winter. So last week I removed the ice because I want to start as soon as possible (It was a nightmare to remove), and now the ground has unfrozen in the past few days because of direct sunlight on the tarps. I was able to lift the tarp today to check my soil, I was really afraid of compaction, after all, it has been under 2 feet of ice for 8 months right? It has to be compacted .... I sticked my finger and I could not believe it Charles, so fluffy, as fluffy as when I spread my compost last fall. No dig is incredible :) Thank you for teaching me everything.
Hi Charles, you’ve got me wanting to try these. I think they would be nice addition to our garden. We’re getting a lot of asparagus now. Take care and God bless. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
You peaked my interest so I had to look it up/ They are rich in iron to give you energy, along with potassium and vitamin B1, which support your muscles and nerves. Although they're sweet, their starchy fibre stops any spikes in blood sugar levels - indeed they have a lower glycemic index (GI) score than potatoes - and they aren't fattening. I'll give it a try. Thanks again Charles.
We just had a storm and as I was praising the Lord for not only shielding us but also our animals and allowing around 2/3 of my seedlings to make it through that as well… I remembered a comment I made on your channel some years ago where I said my seedlings wash away with the storms and you replied something implying that it was something new to you. What I was completely ignorant to at the time is that y’all don’t even get tornadoes. What a big world.
Thank you for sharing this and I'm so glad that you survived and most of your plants as well. That sounds like horrible conditions to endure, we are fortunate here not to have tornadoes.
My Jerusalem Artichokes are almost smooth and you peel with a carrot peeler (they are big like carrots). I am not sure what type it is but they are way better for peeling. I can send you some if you want.. I roast mine and i recommend eating as part of a meal to avoid gas. They freeze well too.
Hahaha: "Bigger harvest than I thought" Same here! When voles & deer are merciful, you can have like a 100 l bucket full of these tubbers from just 4 plants. They're delicious and ten times crunchier than radish. Kids love them too. You can also cook & eat them with butter like with potatoes. I'm so happy, you're introducing this also called topinambour plant, that still most people never heard of, which now hopefully will change. 👍👍👍
My favourite root vegetable! 😃Native Americans taught the first settlers how to slow roast sun choke tubers in earth covered stone pits to …. improve digestion. First Pioneers were encouraged by wagon train leaders to cast a few uncooked tubers along the trails to grow for the next year’s starving pioneers to forage during their journey. Bit like the Romans who cast nuts, sloes and plums/greengages as they built their new Roman roads for future travellers to forage or make wine from. #earlypermaculture
We store our " dug" artichokes in a bucket of compost over the winter, a few chunks into a soup, raw,dehydrated and roasted.... Dobre chut! Charles and company
Absolutely stunning video! I planted this crop last year and it was AMAZING! And didn't need hardly any care. Thanks for sharing, Charles. You truly are a blessing!
I started growing some last year and I love them roasted! For soup, the taste is too smokey for me, but they roast to a crispy buttery thing in the oven. Saw the first sprouting again in my container, so will get my first free harvest this year 😊
I can confirm that i am more than 100% self-sufficient in Jerusalem Artichoke! That and lovage. I should see if the RHS will grant me 'national plant collection' status for them! Thankfully, i like eating the JA, they're almost as versatile as potatoes, but just need moderating in consumption level. Fermenting them is a great way of preserving them. One other way to reduce the gassy side effect is to simmer in lemon juice when cooking. Fuseau is the variety to grow as it's less knobbly.
Great video, I love seeing the full sequence from harvest to table and especially interested as next season will be my first harvest of these. Thank you 😀
What a co-incidence Sir Charles! Today I received my ordered 3 varieties of Jerusalem artichokes via mail and will plant them tomorrow 😊. Fingers crossed the voles (moles?) don't get them...
I had a tuber left over from the supermarket! And put it in the front garden soil! Only after that did I start reading about the growth habit! I was surprised that it can grow up to 2 meters high! My neighbors were also surprised LOL.... Ours doesn't give flowers! I eat them raw in salads, roasted in the oven or as a soup with palm cabbage and leek!
In Piedmont, Italy we love eating topinambur baked as a ''flan'' (sformato) generously covered with our legendary "bagna cauda" along with a glass of Nebbiolo
We have been growing JA's for 3 years and have confined them to one plot of our garden. Last year we were away a few weeks end of March when we got got back they were spouting and this year we have a huge crop giving away about 15lbs a week!! We will be halfing the crop this year but they are so great as there is little to do until harvesting them. We are in a very windy spot on the Moray Coast so we have put poles and string around the plot which has helped as before they were getting flattened in the gale force winds.
@Charles Dowding I'm already getting little green tomatoes on my dwarf plants and the Everglades Tomatoes bear almost year-round. I think we are 2 months ahead of you. 👩🌾👍
I didn’t plant them. I did compost some kitchen scraps and they went to town in my garden. Now I have them in 4 places. Oh yea I do love the sound of that snap.
❤ wow , we have that also here in Japan, Mr. Dowding . We ate that for salad and tempura. Very delicious and yummy. It’s good to those people who are diabetic. It’s an insulin plant. 😊
Hi Charles, I really enjoyed this video! Our winters get even colder and longer cold, and the Jerusalem Artichokes easily survive. However, in mid winter I usually can't harvest any as the soil is frozen. So I only took a few this year and didn't make a final harvest. I was going to just leave them to grow again but now I wonder, if I shouldn't take them all out like you did and thin the roots a bit. Otherwise I might get a jungle and smaller harvests... Hmm... haven't thought of this before. Need to check if they haven't sprouted too much already. I doubt it, as it is still very cold at night. Regarding digestion - personally I found the cooked ones more difficult to digest than the raw ones (usually it is the opposite). I only found out this winter, that eating them raw is possible and so so tasty!! Mixed with a bit of raw celeriac or raw carrot it makes a wonderful salad (like a colesaw). I love the idea of fermenting them! Will try that!!
That's nice to hear Sonia, and yes I would definitely harvest as soon as you can, at least to thin them because the next harvest will indeed be smaller roots, otherwise
2015 i received a few of these chokes from a friend. Since that i ve moved twice. But i still have those same chokes going on in my garden 😅 its a miracle 😂 mainly because i ve had extremely hard times due to health problems and my garden projects have often been left to fend themselves 😛 but now it seems health has improved much and probably my garden will also start to flourish 😎
These have really taken off in my garden and have pretty much become invasive! Never have they flowered though. just grow almost as tall as my house. In Cyprus, they call them ground apples.
The home we bought had Jerusalem artichokes. We didn't harvest them last year. I will be moving them and will harvest and prepare them soon. The no dig method will make things easier. I like your ferment idea.
I grow Jerusalem artichokes at my place. I never have digestion problems with it. I always peel off the outer skin, and I can eat a ton of them. Maybe the skin is where the problem lies. They are wonderful when you peel the skin off, similar to potatoes but with a artichoke heart flavor
Charles, We just harvested our first Sunchokes and are excited to have some for dinner tonight. We will also try your artichoke kimchi! They are growing in our orchard, and we don't mind if they spread! Thank you, for the video. Anne
Good morning Charles, I noticed your bed had boards around it. I got away from raised beds here. I am doing in ground no till now, but I also using borders to keep my soil from washing off and holding my compost layer. Really watching your lead, you have a beautiful garden.
Good morning Naomi. Yes I also do not grow in raised beds with wooden sides. But just this corner of the garden has ground sloping away so it makes sense to have wooden edges. Just on the outside.
This is what RUclips is supposed to be about, Learning and enjoying that experience of Learning. Charles personifies that. I Wish i could monetize my channel so it would enable me to do more projects to share with others also.
@@wemuk5170 about May. Leave them in the ground in till you need them the harvest them leave them muddy and pop them in the fridge in a plastic bag or they will spoil quickly
That’s helpful, thank you! 😊🙏🙏🙏 Hopeful, too, now am looking forward to May. TQSM. :) We ate ours (Fusal, it’s called) from Sainsbury, grown for them by Abel & Cole organic farmers. Delicious.
@@wemuk5170 awesome just be careful as they spread really really well lol so box them in as much as you can. They are be thought of a perennial that spreads.. as they will root from the tiniest of fragments
I read that you can make refrigerator pickles of sunchokes, and of beetroot, too. I've never made either, but the beetroot, at least, keeps only about one month which perhaps could reduce the duration of the hungry gap? (In case it's a North American term, "refrigerator pickle" means the food is neither hot water processed, nor pressure-canned. It's simply put into a brine or pickle solution, and allowed to sit for at least a week and in the case of the Jerusalem artichokes changing out the brine for a new, fresh batch of brine. Probably not something you want to try to live on exclusively for at least three weeks to a month, but it could add one more food item to the hungry gap arsenal.
Ordered some of these for this growing season. Looking forward to seeing the growth habit and experimenting to find the most digestible ways to enjoy them!
I love these - cooked with garlic and bay leaves - delicious. Well worth te eafter effects. They absolutely love the loamy soil we have here in Somerset :)
Your timing could not be better. I harvested myne today, what an incredible plant. In just 3 yearas l multiplyed a handfull of storebought tubers in to about 300kg of produce. This is the last multiplication year, now we (and the pigs) get to enjoy the effort
Thank you 🤗 I like making my own crisps and Jerusalem artichokes make the best, but like potatoes which make beautiful crisps when the potatoes have just been pulled out of the ground, once stored something happens to their sugars and you just can’t make good crisps with old potatoes. So storing artichokes a little while may reduce stomach issues.
They grow very easily on my allotment. I save the tubers for 2-3 weeks and then roast them - a few chunks in with whatever else is in the pan for 15 mins or so, and then either eat them as is, or make roast veg soup. Oh, and have never got the fartichoke thing - they don't have that effect on me...
@Charles Dowding that's interesting as I was led to believe the opposite, i.e. that they should be eaten as fresh as possible. I spy a project for next year testing taste and digestibility of Jerusalem artichokes... 🙂 Also just wondered if harvesting them late, i.e. After the plant has died back and they've been sat in the ground for ages, helped at all...
I watched a video about a farmer in Oz who grew them and he sold for quite a few dollars, I grow some in a shady spot under some walnut trees, but rarely flower, I think because of lack of direct sun.
Thanks Charles. I heard they are very easy to grow but since they grow so high I'd have to figure a place where they wouldn't shade my other plants. Maybe some day I'll try them.
Fantastic. I'm just munching my way through a celeriac courtesy of your garden to kitchen video. This also looks promising though I don't know where I'm going to find a suitable growing spot in my mini-garden.
That's interesting, because here they store really well in my cool and damp out- building, temperature 2 to 10 C roughly. Even after we wash them they stay quite fresh for up to a month
I love Jerusalem Artichoke/Sunchokes! I have tried planting some this year, but I think the tubers may have rotted (and possibly a mouse ate one too) so we'll see what happens...
I plant my sunchokes in many many pots the sizes similar to your blue bucket seen here or much larger. I would usually place 3 tiny little round tubers, the size of my thumb, kept from the previous season (or if anyone is new to planting these, then you can just buy one or two tubers from your local greengrocer or from the veggie market and cut them up into a many small pieces) and lay them in the middle of a few large plastic plant pots. They will grow in to nice tall plants during summer and will need lots of water. Sunchokes droop easily when planted in pots on hot days so we need to water them a a fair bit. This is mainly due in part because the sun chokes wil now have been growing rapidly and filling up the pots with 50 +++ baby little sunchokes and they will be growing bigger and bigger to the point that there is hardly any soil left in the pots. By mid summer, those Jerusalem artichokes tubers will have multiplied 10 times and more and so they would need to drink lots of water (and I would give them frtilizer too) Come autumn, as soon as the leaves start to turn yellow, I would cut down thost tall stems which have also had some beautiful flowers in late summer and I would cut them down to just above the soil in each of my many many pots. This way those yellow and brown dying leaves will stay on the stems rather than be falling everwhere on the ground and making a big mess. I would then place all of those stems with leaves and all into the big council bins and cut them up in to 12 inch sticks to save space, and the council kerbside collection would then take it away for me. No mess and no waste left behind. Nice and easy. When it comes time, often during a freezing cold winter's night, and I felt like cooking up some sunchokes for dinner (or even eating them raw), I would empty one garden pot at a time, onto a big blue tarp outside on my cement driveway and Holy Moly, the entire pot would be filled with these Jerusalem artichokes tubers. I would have to lean heavily with my hands on the outside of the pots and roll them over and over and side to side to loosen them up and the pots would end up being cracked and broken in multiple place beyond further use by doing this because of how tightly these tubers have multiplied and grown and expanded and completely filled the inside of their pots but for the sake of a $3 plastic plant pot, it is worth it. No digging and no mess. What I don't need to cook this time I would simply kept the remaining tubers in a bucket and cover them with some potting mix to keep the tubers fresh untill whenever I would feel like cooking another batch. The tubers also make good gives for friends and work colleaques as as they can then take them home and grow their own. If you have a friend who is a bit annoying, then tell them to grow a few tubers in their veggie patch. Don't mention the pots. Ha ha ....... To clean the sunchokes and prepare them for cooking, it is as simple as using a high pressure garden hose nozzle and spray them clean or much easier still, using a high pressure washer to spray a large big bowlful of sunchoke tubers laid on top of a bird wire mesh frame will clean them in just seconds. Many many happy greetings from Tasmania ............. 🌏
Dear Charles, even if youtube is full of some good videos about gardening, in my opinion you're still IL NUMERO UNO! Thank you so much for what you do for all the gardeners around the world Saluti dall'Italia PS: this is gonna be my second year of gardening and hope to add at least 6 rows 80 cm x 25 m to the very small garden I've started (tried) last year. This time I think I'll cover all the beds putting some mulch on the compost (basically straw). Last spring and summer in Tuscany were almost dry and very warm, I'd rather say hot and only compost didn't work fine. What do you think? Thanks again, ciao
I like that you started to show us some cooking suggestions in species-specific videos, that was a fantastic idea whomever came up with it. And I really enjoy the Charles Dowding No Did Cookbook, its very well done and lots of yummy stuff in there!
We get down to -25F here and no issues. In fact we dig them when the ground first thaws and they are so sweet and mild, kind of like jicama or skirret. Bees go nuts for the flowers I've found out, which to me smell like malted milk balls as they call them here. They are excellent baked with a roast as a sub for potatoes.
I love Jerusalem artichokes and I love them in soups. I add carrots to my soups, along with a good helping of freshly grated ginger. I find that the ginger helps reduce the rude results of eating these delicious little knobs!
Nice tip thanks!
I love sunchokes, but I have certainly experienced the unpleasurable sensation they can produce at the rear end. Fermentation is a good strategy. Another method is through increased exposure: as you increase your dose, your gut microbes will gradually adjust to this new food source and things will balance out. It's similar to getting used to beans. They're worth the effort!
So right on all counts
Can baking soda help? Is it flatulance?
@@shannonfisk506 I don't think so, sunchokes contain a unique form of starch that your gut microbes aren't used to. So they get a little stressed out and produce gas as a by-product, which comes out of our bodies as flatulence. If you expose them to sunchokes regularly, they become used to it and the farts go away!
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I've heard that if you put them exposed to the the sun for 2 weeks then the unpleasant sensation at the rear end will disappear 😂
I just love Jerusalem Artichoke. I cut the tubers like you do, put some salt, pepper, olive oil and put it in the oven. I like to eat it with fermented cabbage in the winter. Other times I mix it with potatoes and asparagus. I plant Jerusalem Artichoke around one part of my garden as an edible hedge and most of my crop I give to my hens during winter. Eggs production is much more increased.
Which part do you give your hens? I recently acquired some chickens and they dug up some tubers that were growing close by but didn't eat them. Do they eat the leaves?
Thanks, that's so interesting about the hens, I wonder if you cook them first
@@CharlesDowding1nodig The hens? Yes, they're usually cooked first, not eaten raw. ;-)
@@mindimoom9142 I don't know about the leaves. I never tried it. I give to my hens for some years now, one meal/day of fresh grated tubers, or sometimes I just smash the tubers in front of them with a hammer and they quickly eat it. I've noticed the Jerusalem artichoke is a good mineral source that improve eggs production during winter month. And the hens just love it + swiss chard + kale.
If you eat the tubers fresh in a salad you'll notice they are very similar to an apple. In fact in my area it is also known as Earth apple, Pig apple or Topinambur and was used as feed for cattle and pigs. Just in the recent years people rediscovered it as a great prebiotic food and a big help for people with diabetes illness.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Nope, give them raw.
In Estonia we call them "Maapirn", its in English "Land pear". These are extremely healthy vegetables. Add them into your salats as much you can. Make for Children these artichoke snaks, like carrots pieces, they are tasty in any condition :) Sometimes they are very sweet and sometimes very low tasty. They provide few calories, 34 kcal per 100 g, but are rich in minerals, containing potassium, phosphorus, magnesium and calcium compounds, as well as B group vitamins.
Nice to hear thanks
Thanks for this. I live in USA and recently rediscovered gardening as something to do instead of smoking tobacco, while im quitting. This is my first season and I know i got started late, so I've been looking for something to more crops that are hardy against frost. Ill be planting sun choke soon, now.
After explaining no dig techniquesand sharing some of your videos to my landlord, hes given me even more of the property to grow on.
Wow this is good news and well done
I grow these in my orchard mainly as super easy fodder to feed treat my chickens, goats & horses. I just cut some leafy stems & flowers as treats throughout Summer (my animals eat every bit! Stems too) It’s just a bonus my family gets the tubers in winter =) We grow sunflowers for feed too, same thing… every animal loves it, no waste. If you have the space, Sunchokes are fodder gold for livestock to get through late Summer when fields get bare.
Nice tip, thanks
The greens contain around 15% protein and 15% fiber, makes them a great food for most herbivores. The leaves also contain trace amounts of Salicylic acid (raw aspirin) and Coumarin (raw Coumadin). It takes good extraction and extreme concentration to get near medicinal strength. The leaves can be used just like grape leaves in Mediterranean wrap recipes. The course hairy texture disappears after just a few minutes of cooking and they are so tender.
Can cats or dogs eat the leaves and stems ?
@@suzannecornell2801I suppose they can, but none of mine have ever had the urge. I suppose you could add them to regular food for healthy greens.
Honestly the way you casually dropped that tuber in and picked it out was just perfect. Charles is the GOAT.
How nice thanks
Hello Charles,
Here in Germany these plants are called Topinambur (Jerusalem artichokes) and once you have them in your garden you will never get rid of them. They grow in my chicken coop and give the animals protection. I don't want them in the vegetable garden because the voles like to eat the Jerusalem artichokes. I find your fermented products very interesting. I love them on chips and fresh in salads. For chips, they are finely shaved, mixed well with a tablespoon of olive oil, salted a little and dried on baking paper in the oven at around 100°C. Depending on the temperature, it takes about an hour. Absolutely delicious! In the cool season, they can be dried well in the slightly heated wood-fired oven with the roasting oven door slightly open. All the best! Ursula
Those chips you describe sound excellente - I will try them, thank you.
I'll give the chips a try as well
Thank you Ursula, those are amazing tips and I hope to find time to make some of the chips
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Only we would call them crisps in UK
So they grow well in a chicken run? That’s great! And the chickens enjoy the leaves & flowers to eat?
Mr Charles' videos bring me so much joy always while learning ALOT about gardening, never stop doing them! 🤗
💚 thanks
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks so much for making this video. Rest assured that you won’t get the ‘farts’ if you cook them appropriately.
Just slice them thinly & soak them in salted water overnight, before [deep or stir or air] frying them. The PRC Chinese soaked them in salted water for a whole week!
Anyway, I sliced them thinly, immersed them in salted water for 1.5 day, rinsed, patted dry and then placed them in the air fryer with oil till golden brown. No gas. No gas at all.
All best & thank you so much for your videos. They are useful & enjoyable.
@@wemuk5170 super thanks!
I was given a single tuber from Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's Park Farm whilst visiting to celebrate the 20th anniversary of "River Cottage". I've just replanted the descendants of that tuber in our new garden. Amazing plants.
How lovely
Thank you for doing such a positive video about these. I see so many people put off of growing such a staple crop because of silly comments on places like fb. I grow them in pots, and they are fab for limited space. After harvesting I just pop one back in with the compost - so it will be a free harvest really every time after. I have never tasted a soup flavour like it! So now all mine is harvested the freezer is full of soup. I have some red/pinky ones, and some more cream colour like yours. They are amazing roasted, in stir-fries and I also love them raw where they kind of remind me of the texture of fresh coconut. Take care, and thanks again!
Sounds great Amanda-Jayne 😀
Thanks so much for your kind expose on sunchokes ...if only every vegetable was this easy to grow with a bountiful harvest! I've found that since they are so plentiful, to shorten cleaning time, I just do a thick peeling of them - this way I don't inadvertently bite a stone in a crevice! I live a simple lifestyle and am so grateful for the veggies that are available during that hungry gap. BTW they can be roasted too with olive oil, garlic, carrots and any other root veggies you have. And at this time kale starts regrowing and then there is enough for dinner :). Thank again Charles! PS I don't put the cuttings in my regular compost bin or they would regrow- just toss them in a separate pile out of the way.
Nice to hear Trish. Incidentally, in my compost heaps they do not regrow :)
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I didn't know that...that's great news!
One of my favorites to grow :) I have 6 varieties now and sell them mail order in the US . Some varieties like White Fuseau and Beaver Valley are easier to clean, they're hardly knobby
How can I order some from you?
Aside from the useful information, I also love the clear joy with which you approach your gardening, harvest and cooking. It makes your video a joy to watch. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much 😀
I have wanted to add this wonderful perennial food to our garden. You have encouraged me to finally go ahead and do it this year.
Thank you (as always), Mr Dowding.
So nice of you
Love it - We are having a slightly windier week here, following tidying our JA bed the other day and getting a good harvest. We grow a much straighter variety, I think it might be 'White Fuseau' they are much easier to clean and prepare for the kitchen, they taste AMAZING, I can send you a few tubers if youd like to try this variety and see how they compare ? We've had the knobblier ones too, but found the straight so much more of a pleasure to work with. 💚✌🌿
Nice to hear, yes please!
I normally soak them in lemon juice or bicarbonate and it seems to help with digestion.
Thank you for sharing how you grow these, and for your reassurance that it's possible to grow them without them completely taking over a bed. That's my hesitation at the moment, so I'm debating growing them in big pots. I love the idea of making pickles with them too.
I grow in 30 litre containers, they are fab!
@@Pixieworksstudio ahh thank you, that's really helpful to know!
@@Pixieworksstudio30 litres is about 8 gallons.
They are full of prebiotics! ;) Getting ready to harvest mine now, too. They are also so very easy to share. I got them for free from a neighbor and I've shared the slips many times over!
Lovely to hear :)
Canadian here. I grew up with these and didn't even know there was another kind of artichoke for many years 😄. I love your hat in this episode. It reminds me of my grandfather, who grew beautiful gardens. -Em
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Bardzo dziękuję za przepisy i rady odnośnie topinamburu.Mam podobny topinambur tylko nie gruzełkowaty tylko raczej owalny .Pozdrawiam .Polska pozdrawiam ❤❤❤
Brzmi doskonale!
I'm pretty sure I've seen that growing wild around here (it's native over here in the midwest USA). Had no idea it was grown for food all over the world. Thanks for the great info!
Thanks for sharing and enjoy the forage!
I’m having a catch up of your videos during my time off and loved this one. I find the gardening ones in general soooo helpful but I have the soft spot for kitchen antics 💚💛
😂 nice you have time off, a rare thing
Love Jerusalem artichoke
Very underrated, I’m expanding mine this year
I have both growing next to each other on my allotment, the Jerusalem variety is great as a winter crop, apart from the windy effects if you eat too much, it is a very good heavy cropper, great roasted like potatoes or used in a slow cooked stew
Something I've never grown Charles, but definitely looks worth a try. Thankyou!
Hope you enjoy them Jenny
Before I started doing no-dig, I ran through my Jerusalem artichoke patch with my rototiller. I now have them all over my garden, and will never lack for this food source. They're quite tasty either raw or cooked.
How amazing!
Another great video ! I learned a lot because I know very little about artichoke. I really enjoy when the video finish in the kitchen because there is a lot to learn there as well.
Awesome, thank you!
Today I could not believe it Charles. My garden have been under 2 feet of solid ice all winter. So last week I removed the ice because I want to start as soon as possible (It was a nightmare to remove), and now the ground has unfrozen in the past few days because of direct sunlight on the tarps.
I was able to lift the tarp today to check my soil, I was really afraid of compaction, after all, it has been under 2 feet of ice for 8 months right? It has to be compacted .... I sticked my finger and I could not believe it Charles, so fluffy, as fluffy as when I spread my compost last fall.
No dig is incredible :) Thank you for teaching me everything.
How wonderful! You have a fantastic soil life which is keeping your soil open.
Hi Charles, you’ve got me wanting to try these. I think they would be nice addition to our garden. We’re getting a lot of asparagus now. Take care and God bless. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
Sounds great Steven, and you are ahead of me for asparagus!
You peaked my interest so I had to look it up/
They are rich in iron to give you energy, along with potassium and vitamin B1, which support your muscles and nerves. Although they're sweet, their starchy fibre stops any spikes in blood sugar levels - indeed they have a lower glycemic index (GI) score than potatoes - and they aren't fattening.
I'll give it a try. Thanks again Charles.
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We just had a storm and as I was praising the Lord for not only shielding us but also our animals and allowing around 2/3 of my seedlings to make it through that as well… I remembered a comment I made on your channel some years ago where I said my seedlings wash away with the storms and you replied something implying that it was something new to you. What I was completely ignorant to at the time is that y’all don’t even get tornadoes. What a big world.
Thank you for sharing this and I'm so glad that you survived and most of your plants as well. That sounds like horrible conditions to endure, we are fortunate here not to have tornadoes.
My Jerusalem Artichokes are almost smooth and you peel with a carrot peeler (they are big like carrots). I am not sure what type it is but they are way better for peeling. I can send you some if you want.. I roast mine and i recommend eating as part of a meal to avoid gas. They freeze well too.
That is a nice offer, wonder if they are Fuseau
Hahaha: "Bigger harvest than I thought" Same here! When voles & deer are merciful, you can have like a 100 l bucket full of these tubbers from just 4 plants. They're delicious and ten times crunchier than radish. Kids love them too. You can also cook & eat them with butter like with potatoes. I'm so happy, you're introducing this also called topinambour plant, that still most people never heard of, which now hopefully will change. 👍👍👍
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My favourite root vegetable! 😃Native Americans taught the first settlers how to slow roast sun choke tubers in earth covered stone pits to …. improve digestion. First Pioneers were encouraged by wagon train leaders to cast a few uncooked tubers along the trails to grow for the next year’s starving pioneers to forage during their journey.
Bit like the Romans who cast nuts, sloes and plums/greengages as they built their new Roman roads for future travellers to forage or make wine from. #earlypermaculture
Great ideas :)
Thanks for sharing these interesting facts! I hadn‘t heard about that yet😎
We store our " dug" artichokes in a bucket of compost over the winter, a few chunks into a soup, raw,dehydrated and roasted.... Dobre chut! Charles and company
Nice!
Tried these once and they took over so dug them out. Every year I’d still find them coming up from some id missed.
And yes, definitely fartychokes :)
😅 it's almost funny!
Absolutely stunning video! I planted this crop last year and it was AMAZING! And didn't need hardly any care. Thanks for sharing, Charles. You truly are a blessing!
So it tastes good?
Jeruzalem in England. You are always on holiday.
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I started growing some last year and I love them roasted! For soup, the taste is too smokey for me, but they roast to a crispy buttery thing in the oven. Saw the first sprouting again in my container, so will get my first free harvest this year 😊
Fantastic. Yes, smokey :)
An entire bucketful from one plant! That's impressive :) I don't think I've either grown or eaten them before, I may have to try.
I can confirm that i am more than 100% self-sufficient in Jerusalem Artichoke! That and lovage. I should see if the RHS will grant me 'national plant collection' status for them! Thankfully, i like eating the JA, they're almost as versatile as potatoes, but just need moderating in consumption level. Fermenting them is a great way of preserving them. One other way to reduce the gassy side effect is to simmer in lemon juice when cooking. Fuseau is the variety to grow as it's less knobbly.
ps - Yacon is another easy grown tuber to consider cultivating for diabetics. It can produce big yields and it tastes wonderful.
Nice to hear Tony, and well done on maintaining their national collection
Great video, I love seeing the full sequence from harvest to table and especially interested as next season will be my first harvest of these. Thank you 😀
What a co-incidence Sir Charles! Today I received my ordered 3 varieties of Jerusalem artichokes via mail and will plant them tomorrow 😊. Fingers crossed the voles (moles?) don't get them...
Best of luck, voles can be quite a problem and I don't have an answer for that
I had a tuber left over from the supermarket! And put it in the front garden soil! Only after that did I start reading about the growth habit! I was surprised that it can grow up to 2 meters high! My neighbors were also surprised LOL....
Ours doesn't give flowers!
I eat them raw in salads, roasted in the oven or as a soup with palm cabbage and leek!
Nice!
In Piedmont, Italy we love eating topinambur baked as a ''flan'' (sformato) generously covered with our legendary "bagna cauda" along with a glass of Nebbiolo
Oooh sounds so tasty
Oooh! Can't wait to try this... I'll have to plant some in my garden. Looking forward to trying the ferment!
We have been growing JA's for 3 years and have confined them to one plot of our garden. Last year we were away a few weeks end of March when we got got back they were spouting and this year we have a huge crop giving away about 15lbs a week!! We will be halfing the crop this year but they are so great as there is little to do until harvesting them. We are in a very windy spot on the Moray Coast so we have put poles and string around the plot which has helped as before they were getting flattened in the gale force winds.
Fantastic!
Good morning, Charles, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b 🇺🇸
I've never grown these 👍
Happy Gardening
❤Peggy❤
Cheers Peggy and your climate would not suit them I’m sure
@Charles Dowding I'm already getting little green tomatoes on my dwarf plants and the Everglades Tomatoes bear almost year-round. I think we are 2 months ahead of you. 👩🌾👍
I didn’t plant them. I did compost some kitchen scraps and they went to town in my garden. Now I have them in 4 places. Oh yea I do love the sound of that snap.
❤ wow , we have that also here in Japan, Mr. Dowding . We ate that for salad and tempura.
Very delicious and yummy. It’s good to those people who are diabetic. It’s an insulin plant. 😊
Nice. I am type 1 diabetic!
Hi Charles, I really enjoyed this video! Our winters get even colder and longer cold, and the Jerusalem Artichokes easily survive. However, in mid winter I usually can't harvest any as the soil is frozen. So I only took a few this year and didn't make a final harvest. I was going to just leave them to grow again but now I wonder, if I shouldn't take them all out like you did and thin the roots a bit. Otherwise I might get a jungle and smaller harvests... Hmm... haven't thought of this before. Need to check if they haven't sprouted too much already. I doubt it, as it is still very cold at night.
Regarding digestion - personally I found the cooked ones more difficult to digest than the raw ones (usually it is the opposite). I only found out this winter, that eating them raw is possible and so so tasty!! Mixed with a bit of raw celeriac or raw carrot it makes a wonderful salad (like a colesaw).
I love the idea of fermenting them! Will try that!!
That's nice to hear Sonia, and yes I would definitely harvest as soon as you can, at least to thin them because the next harvest will indeed be smaller roots, otherwise
Dowding say Jeruselum Fartichoke made my week. 😄
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2015 i received a few of these chokes from a friend. Since that i ve moved twice. But i still have those same chokes going on in my garden 😅 its a miracle 😂 mainly because i ve had extremely hard times due to health problems and my garden projects have often been left to fend themselves 😛 but now it seems health has improved much and probably my garden will also start to flourish 😎
Lovely to hear of your upswing, with the wind in your sails! 😂 Not sure if jokes work on the internet, I am glad you feel better
@@CharlesDowding1nodig i guess humor is what carries us over difficult times 😁
💚 yes! and love
always excited to watch you, my calming moment....
These have really taken off in my garden and have pretty much become invasive! Never have they flowered though. just grow almost as tall as my house. In Cyprus, they call them ground apples.
Maybe you have Japanese knotweed instead. (;
They are a key ingredient in Jadam pest formulas.
Amazing!
The home we bought had Jerusalem artichokes. We didn't harvest them last year. I will be moving them and will harvest and prepare them soon. The no dig method will make things easier. I like your ferment idea.
I grow Jerusalem artichokes at my place. I never have digestion problems with it. I always peel off the outer skin, and I can eat a ton of them. Maybe the skin is where the problem lies. They are wonderful when you peel the skin off, similar to potatoes but with a artichoke heart flavor
Nice tip!
Charles, We just harvested our first Sunchokes and are excited to have some for dinner tonight. We will also try your artichoke kimchi! They are growing in our orchard, and we don't mind if they spread! Thank you, for the video. Anne
Nice to hear Anne. This is early for suncchokes 😀
That's great, enjoy 🙂
Great video! Your presenting was excellent and I'm inspired to get growing these next season! Thankyou!
Awesome! Thank you and best of luck
Good morning Charles, I noticed your bed had boards around it.
I got away from raised beds here.
I am doing in ground no till now, but I also using borders to keep my soil from washing off and holding my compost layer. Really watching your lead, you have a beautiful garden.
Good morning Naomi.
Yes I also do not grow in raised beds with wooden sides. But just this corner of the garden has ground sloping away so it makes sense to have wooden edges. Just on the outside.
Finally getting my lettuce, beets, and radishes into the ground. Zone 5A
Im In 4b, it just snowed 3 inches. Spring is a myth!
Thank you for your advices in best digesting them! I didn‘t thought about fermenting before.
In Germany they‘re called Topinambur.
Oh, one question by the way… why is it better to use the not as knobby tubers to plant for new jerusalem artichokes?
i grow them in lots a places. Great Post!
Cool, thanks
Good job Charles! Just planted a few of them late last summer. Have to check them. Enjoying the cooking tips as well....thanks so much..
This is what RUclips is supposed to be about, Learning and enjoying that experience of Learning. Charles personifies that. I Wish i could monetize my channel so it would enable me to do more projects to share with others also.
Thanks; best of luck
I have been growing jerusalum artichoke, you get a ton! I have stored them in the fridge (muddy) and the stored really well
Just started growing them last month. How long will it be, before we see them sprouting, can you advise?
@@wemuk5170 about May. Leave them in the ground in till you need them the harvest them leave them muddy and pop them in the fridge in a plastic bag or they will spoil quickly
That’s helpful, thank you! 😊🙏🙏🙏 Hopeful, too, now am looking forward to May. TQSM. :)
We ate ours (Fusal, it’s called) from Sainsbury, grown for them by Abel & Cole organic farmers. Delicious.
@@wemuk5170 awesome just be careful as they spread really really well lol so box them in as much as you can. They are be thought of a perennial that spreads.. as they will root from the tiniest of fragments
Harvesting them in the spring is supposed to minimize the digestive problems. I dug one accidentally this week, so I'm going to try it.
Ho[e it's good!
I love them - have never grown before think I’ll give it a go xx
They make, as you said, a lovely soup 😍.
I read that you can make refrigerator pickles of sunchokes, and of beetroot, too. I've never made either, but the beetroot, at least, keeps only about one month which perhaps could reduce the duration of the hungry gap? (In case it's a North American term, "refrigerator pickle" means the food is neither hot water processed, nor pressure-canned. It's simply put into a brine or pickle solution, and allowed to sit for at least a week and in the case of the Jerusalem artichokes changing out the brine for a new, fresh batch of brine.
Probably not something you want to try to live on exclusively for at least three weeks to a month, but it could add one more food item to the hungry gap arsenal.
Thanks, all useful. I'm enjoying two month old kimchi :)
I like them both roasted and in soups! Lots of health benefits from the inulin - a great prebiotic.
Yes good point
Thank you! I may give these a try next year.
Ordered some of these for this growing season. Looking forward to seeing the growth habit and experimenting to find the most digestible ways to enjoy them!
Best fermented with garlic. Unreal flavour.
Nice tip!
J A is a vegetable which I love roasted. Once in the garden they are there forever ! The Kimchi sounds a good idea. 👍
I love these - cooked with garlic and bay leaves - delicious. Well worth te eafter effects.
They absolutely love the loamy soil we have here in Somerset :)
Nice!!
Good work.
Thanks
Thank you. They are delicious.
Your timing could not be better. I harvested myne today, what an incredible plant. In just 3 yearas l multiplyed a handfull of storebought tubers in to about 300kg of produce. This is the last multiplication year, now we (and the pigs) get to enjoy the effort
Nice for the pigs!
Thank you 🤗 I like making my own crisps and Jerusalem artichokes make the best, but like potatoes which make beautiful crisps when the potatoes have just been pulled out of the ground, once stored something happens to their sugars and you just can’t make good crisps with old potatoes. So storing artichokes a little while may reduce stomach issues.
I think that is correct 😀
Here in Sardegna we call them topinambur, delicious fried with pancetta and served with short pasta
Wow, wonderful recipe
They grow very easily on my allotment. I save the tubers for 2-3 weeks and then roast them - a few chunks in with whatever else is in the pan for 15 mins or so, and then either eat them as is, or make roast veg soup. Oh, and have never got the fartichoke thing - they don't have that effect on me...
Possibly it helps that you store them before eating, there is so much to learn about these
@Charles Dowding that's interesting as I was led to believe the opposite, i.e. that they should be eaten as fresh as possible. I spy a project for next year testing taste and digestibility of Jerusalem artichokes... 🙂 Also just wondered if harvesting them late, i.e. After the plant has died back and they've been sat in the ground for ages, helped at all...
Thanks for sharing.
They're also really good pickled.
I watched a video about a farmer in Oz who grew them and he sold for quite a few dollars, I grow some in a shady spot under some walnut trees, but rarely flower, I think because of lack of direct sun.
Impressive, proximity to walnut tree!
Thanks Charles. I heard they are very easy to grow but since they grow so high I'd have to figure a place where they wouldn't shade my other plants. Maybe some day I'll try them.
Fantastic. I'm just munching my way through a celeriac courtesy of your garden to kitchen video. This also looks promising though I don't know where I'm going to find a suitable growing spot in my mini-garden.
If you have space for a 6 gallon container... 😎
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Ah ha! I'm sure that can be done. Ta. 🪴
Welldone Brother !
your job is great ❤
Thanks ✌️
I've had issues storing them. They seem to shrivel up very quickly. Wonderful video
Store in the ground and only dig up when you want to eat or replant in the spring.
That's interesting, because here they store really well in my cool and damp out- building, temperature 2 to 10 C roughly. Even after we wash them they stay quite fresh for up to a month
I think Jen Sissons have the right idea
I love Jerusalem Artichoke/Sunchokes! I have tried planting some this year, but I think the tubers may have rotted (and possibly a mouse ate one too) so we'll see what happens...
Oh no! Fingers crossed or plant more :) 💨
I'm going to try growing these just for the fact the raise storm in yhe pants area
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Gracias... Desde España.
I didn't know this. Thx.
Thank´s! Makes a lovely, quite sophisticated, creamy soup! Beware though of tiny particles of sand - destroys your teeth very efficiently.
I plant my sunchokes in many many pots the sizes similar to your blue bucket seen here or much larger.
I would usually place 3 tiny little round tubers, the size of my thumb, kept from the previous season (or if anyone is new to planting these, then you can just buy one or two tubers from your local greengrocer or from the veggie market and cut them up into a many small pieces) and lay them in the middle of a few large plastic plant pots.
They will grow in to nice tall plants during summer and will need lots of water. Sunchokes droop easily when planted in pots on hot days so we need to water them a a fair bit. This is mainly due in part because the sun chokes wil now have been growing rapidly and filling up the pots with 50 +++ baby little sunchokes and they will be growing bigger and bigger to the point that there is hardly any soil left in the pots. By mid summer, those Jerusalem artichokes tubers will have multiplied 10 times and more and so they would need to drink lots of water (and I would give them frtilizer too)
Come autumn, as soon as the leaves start to turn yellow, I would cut down thost tall stems which have also had some beautiful flowers in late summer and I would cut them down to just above the soil in each of my many many pots.
This way those yellow and brown dying leaves will stay on the stems rather than be falling everwhere on the ground and making a big mess.
I would then place all of those stems with leaves and all into the big council bins and cut them up in to 12 inch sticks to save space, and the council kerbside collection would then take it away for me. No mess and no waste left behind. Nice and easy.
When it comes time, often during a freezing cold winter's night, and I felt like cooking up some sunchokes for dinner (or even eating them raw), I would empty one garden pot at a time, onto a big blue tarp outside on my cement driveway and Holy Moly, the entire pot would be filled with these Jerusalem artichokes tubers.
I would have to lean heavily with my hands on the outside of the pots and roll them over and over and side to side to loosen them up and the pots would end up being cracked and broken in multiple place beyond further use by doing this because of how tightly these tubers have multiplied and grown and expanded and completely filled the inside of their pots but for the sake of a $3 plastic plant pot, it is worth it. No digging and no mess. What I don't need to cook this time I would simply kept the remaining tubers in a bucket and cover them with some potting mix to keep the tubers fresh untill whenever I would feel like cooking another batch.
The tubers also make good gives for friends and work colleaques as as they can then take them home and grow their own.
If you have a friend who is a bit annoying, then tell them to grow a few tubers in their veggie patch. Don't mention the pots. Ha ha .......
To clean the sunchokes and prepare them for cooking, it is as simple as using a high pressure garden hose nozzle and spray them clean or much easier still, using a high pressure washer to spray a large big bowlful of sunchoke tubers laid on top of a bird wire mesh frame will clean them in just seconds.
Many many happy greetings from Tasmania ............. 🌏
That is so amazingly thorough and I hope you're enjoying them this winter! Thanks for your tips.
Dear Charles,
even if youtube is full of some good videos about gardening, in my opinion you're still IL NUMERO UNO!
Thank you so much for what you do for all the gardeners around the world
Saluti dall'Italia
PS: this is gonna be my second year of gardening and hope to add at least 6 rows 80 cm x 25 m to the very small garden I've started (tried) last year.
This time I think I'll cover all the beds putting some mulch on the compost (basically straw).
Last spring and summer in Tuscany were almost dry and very warm, I'd rather say hot and only compost didn't work fine.
What do you think?
Thanks again, ciao
That's nice, thanks Carl.
In great heat and dry, moisture disappears into plant roots, whatever the mulch.
However hay and straw keep the soil cooler.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks Charles
I like that you started to show us some cooking suggestions in species-specific videos, that was a fantastic idea whomever came up with it. And I really enjoy the Charles Dowding No Did Cookbook, its very well done and lots of yummy stuff in there!
Our pleasure Ted :)
We get down to -25F here and no issues. In fact we dig them when the ground first thaws and they are so sweet and mild, kind of like jicama or skirret. Bees go nuts for the flowers I've found out, which to me smell like malted milk balls as they call them here. They are excellent baked with a roast as a sub for potatoes.
Good to know!
"Grow, Harvest, Eat" should be a whole stand-alone Playlist, please 🌻👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
That's nice thanks