It couldn’t be much easier to grow your own wild carbohydrate-rich food!
Growing Jerusalem artichoke is as easy as planting the tubers in a location you’d like to have these plants grow for a long time. Then let them grow, enjoy the beautiful sunflower-like blooms, and harvest the highly multiplied tubers in late fall and early spring.
Sunchokes evolved in a symbiotic relationship with the animals that ate their tubers. Periodic loosening of the soil around the plants was really beneficial as it gave the sunchokes nice easy soil to grow into. This is so much the case that if you never work your sunchoke patch, often it will slowly loose energy and die out.
We are offering two great, highly productive varieties:
Stampede – these are more of a natural tuber shape, longer and thinner. Large tubers.
White – these are a very thick tuber with a white interior. Very large and productive.
Note: all varieties have yellow flowers. The variety names loosely describe qualities of the edible tubers.
Growth Parameters:
Expect thin sunflower like stems 10 to 12 feet tall. Patch size depends on how many tubers you plant.
CAUTION: Sunchokes are one of the more powerful plants commonly planted by permaculturalists etc. The tubers spread by underground root runners, as well as by rodents who dig up the tubers and leave them half eaten in other locations. For planting, I often recommend an area that can be mowed around 360 degrees and far away from annual beds to be able to control the spread of the plants if necessary.
