If you grow one crop, this should be it: Jerusalem Artichokes.

5 min mark: discussion about JAs, flatulence issues, and solutions to them.
8 min mark: pulling one up! Look at the tubers!
Rest of the video is various tidbits about them. There is just so much to discuss! how to store them, cook them, how they grow, how to use them in polyculture guilds, etc.
Everything you wanted to know about Jerusalem Artichokes. If you can grow these but aren't, you need to remedy that. If you grow one crop, grow these.
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[@Wolfmoss1]

A potato-like staple crop that grows almost as a weed... Why is this not being propagated around the world en masse? Something like this could go a long way to solving world hunger overnight! It's insane this isn't more commonly grown. Thanks for putting out this vid, this is good info! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@loves2spin2]

Thank you for this. I once read that the man who grows Jerusalem artichokes will never starve. I was able to buy some at the farmer's market on Saturday, and my daughter came out and helped me plant them today!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

So true LOL

[@user-wp1bt5pk4x]

You're going to love them. My son brought them home 3 years ago and I've been growing them ever since. I can't eat potatoes so they are a great substitute.

[@krodkrod8132]

There are millions of Jerusalem Artichokes growing close to my house. They border a huge forest that goes for miles. I just dug up a hundred or so tubers and am going to replant them all along my back fence. I like how invasive they are. That means little effort on my part to grow them. I have an acre of field behind my house and i hope they fill in like crazy.

[@frustratedmajority851]

Ugh paradise. You just described my life goal. Your set for life you know... as long as you have access to fresh water (without electricity) you've got it made!

[@krodkrod8132]

@@frustratedmajority851 More than you know. I also have a 1 acre back yard with a full on food forest. 62 fruit trees and and hundred or so fruit nut and berry bushes. A small creek and pond are about 20 feet off my back yard. The pond always has geese and sandhill cranes.

[@frustratedmajority851]

@krodkrod8132 Yea man that's my goal. Good on ya lol

[@Wolfmoss1]

​@@krodkrod8132Living the dream, that's awesome! 😄

[@regenterra5259]

Keith, I’ve been growing JAs since 1987 and never saw them as large & healthy as yours. I have a new appreciation for them now that I know their true value. Today dug only 3 plants out of many & got about 8 gallons of chokes. Also my soil was teaming with life! Thank you!😊

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I likely had such a good year because these were planting in a MOUND of manure, compost and leaves. I suspect that the same JAs in the same spot will probably get smaller over the years, unless I keep amending more manure there.

[@kristeetrisler4942]

Thank you!! I planted sunchokes for the first time this year. My husband thinks I am nuts. But then saw this video and realized what I had done a good thing. Horseradish and leeks are on my radar to add to the list. Sustainability crops is the goal. We live about 14 miles from the nearest city. So running to the store is a 30 minute trip just to get there. Western most county in New York state. I hate to ramble but the videos you make are awesome. My cubscout soon to be a boy scout did a project as a badge. He went to our neighbor who owns a couple of acres surrounding our property. He asked if it would be okay to plant a small vegetable garden. The first year we tried sprawlers. Pumpkins, watermelons, and cucumbers just to start. Due to the wildlife we lost just about everything other than 4 or 5 pumpkins. Next try this year we went with sunchokes due to the wildlife. No I did not plan for the rabbits and deer eating the tops of the plants. So I never got my sunflowers to give to the property owner BUT wildlife win there. I look forward to showing him the yield and making him some to eat. I also know that a VERY opinionated neighbor who said that one crop isn't a garden can eat her words. Thank you for what you do. By making this video you helped one of the small villages in NY state.

[@benawake4eva273]

I’m loling, I grow Jerusalem Artichokes next to my mull berry trees and goji berry bushes as well! I like grating JA’s and eating them raw on salad, or make soup with them.. JA’s and celery root puréed soup is a holiday tradition for me. Everyone loves it. I am told they make an excellent flour but I haven’t tried yet .. I have always told people if there’s only one plant you can grow it should be Jerusalem Artichokes !

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Nice! Eating them raw doesn't give you stomach issues? I should try it myself. My wife is super sensitive to the inulin, but I'm okay with it.

[@peacefulgarden]

Love, love, love what you do. I just planted a few Jerusalem artichokes for next year in my (tiny) front yard. I am trying to convert as much of my small patch into a food forest. I live in Montreal and my plot is maybe 60' by 30' but I plan to cover it in food generating perennial plantings, from raspberries, strawberries and ground cherries to Jerusalem artichokes and a few fruit trees. Keep your great videos coming, you're a great teacher and a solid inspiration :)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks so much again Susan. So happy to hear other Canadians driving change. You may have a "tiny" front yard, but by definition that also means you have a lot of people around you, seeing what you are doing. Your ability to influence others is monumental. Keep up the great work!

[@peacefulgarden]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy- truly. Teaching by example is the best way eh? (ooops, my Canadian is showing!)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

:)

[@TheMississauga333]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy i see some people say its invasive, so if i planed lets say 10 plants at the edge of a field , and just let it go, what would i be looking at in 5 years time? just wondering

[@kurtgrau8156]

I just bought some jarusalem artichokes for the field next to my house. I'm turning the regional land into a food forest and next year adding a Jerusalem artichoke patch. Excited to make a food forest next to my rental and the deer will love the JA. Putting some walking onions in there and a bunch of wild garlic I collected. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Amazing!

[@lyndaz.3298]

Oh the things I'm learning from you. I had no idea this plant existed. Not only will it give me perennial food year-after-year, but it will also have pretty tall flowers to look at too. I got really hungry watching you pull up these tubers and will try and track down and plant as soon as possible. Thank you for your educational videos - the channel I watch the most! I am learning a lot from you - especially about just getting those trees in the ground. When I have food to eat and share and know I'm making a difference in amending my little back yard garden as God intended - it will be because of you. I really can't thank you enough.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Honestly, it's comments like this which make it worth all the time and effort in making these videos. This plant is truly incredible. I see it show up in grocery stores now and then, but people are really afraid to try new things. I think some people also tried them and had bad gas, but you can fix that by boiling them. If I could eat these or potatoes, I'd eat potatoes, sure. I still grow potatoes. The taste is similar, these are just a bit more work processing for cooking (the boiling time). But the fact that these come up each year and I never have to plant them, I just have food growing out of what used to be useless lawn... I mean come on, these things are too good to be true. If you see some late fall videos of mine (such as "4 year old food forest from the sky") and you see 6 foot tall yellow flowers. That's these things. They are also gorgeous. What's not to love?

[@susansaffioti2111]

These garden guru podcasters are American hero’s, lots of love and appreciation. I have the red colored tubers and they are taking over but at least I have food security. The flowers are beautiful and bees just nap in them.

[@jeannettedewit9005]

So glad I watched this to the end! I learned SO much. I bought 3 different varieties of Jerusalem Artichokes and I wasn't sure how or where to plant them. I live in New Brunswick along the coast, zone 4/5 and we have lots of deer and bedrock. I am going to find a spot and do the cardboard, compost and peat-moss with some leaves. I am new here from Ontario so the deer and bedrock are a bit of a challenge.We have 5 acres with waterfront waters leading to the Bay of Fundy and a lot of forest. This year we are building a greenhouse and starting a food forest . I have rooted elderberry cuttings and started a few plum trees from the pits.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Only use peatmoss if you already have it then try to avoid using it. It causes massive ecological damage when harvested. For the planting strategy, these things are pretty bullet proof, but the one way to kill them is to smother them. So just be careful when you use the cardboard. I would get some started before using cardboard, and then sheet mulch with the cardboard around them. Either that, or do a sheet mulch this season to reset and then plant them in the fall (keep them in pots for this season). That way the cardboard will reset any grass in the area, but will be gone by the fall, when you plant them. I would do one of those 2 things. Best of luck!

[@jefflaliberte4587]

Sand mixed with sawdust....works very well and it won't rot....for storage.

[@peterjullien4987]

Banana for scale 😂. Thanks for the vid. I’ve really jumped deep into your content since finding you a couple months ago. I really appreciate your perspective and practical explanations. I’m starting a forest of my own.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

😆 🤣 Welcome to the family 👪

[@MicroMouse007]

Damn, I didn't know James Franco was so into gardening. Super interesting, I ended up watching the entire thing!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

You know, that's not the first time I've heard that! Lol

[@walrusiam6233]

That's funny because I've been thinking Matthew Broderick. Watch one of his winter videos when his sinuses are congested and you'll see it. ;)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Lol

[@gabrielgolden4336]

Or Steve Coogan.

[@johannabelanger4750]

Jim Caviezel!

[@brooksy1234]

I boiled them first and made home fries. Delicious and no problem with gas.

[@sandram.johnson2754]

Note: Raspberies control areas and limit sunchock spreading. Seen it for 4 years.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Oh, I could totally see that happening. Sunchokes surrounded by a "moat" of raspberries. I like it. Comfrey would do really well in that role also.

[@krzysztofrudnicki5841]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Never too much comfrey.

[@SgtScourge]

@@sandram.johnson2754 then how do you limit the raspberries? 😅

[@marcmorgan8606]

Hi from West Wales! I’m only in my 2nd year as a ‘dude growing some food’ and I’m amazed at what I’ve achieved so far, and what potential there is! Ive hit a place set aside for JAs and will be planting my first (and hopefully forever) crop very soon, and this is the best video I’ve seen about JAs so far! Thank you very much - diolch yn fawr!!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

My brother from across the pond!

[@sparkyplugclean2402]

I thought sunchokes were a central north america native? Yes, they are. I've been growing them for years, bought 5 lbs of stampede variety five years ago, harvest 20 -40 lbs a year now. I eat them out of hand with just the dirt brushed off after the soil has frozen. Never had a problem with gas.

[@B30pt87]

Oh yes, I definitely picked something up from this video. I need to grow Jerualem artichokes, and that if I prune back my terribly overgrown apple tree with little tiny apples, I may get bigger, sweeter apples. Thanks!

[@adamgrout7313]

Love your content! Im zone 5-hard to find good videos on cooler climate permaculture

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Glad you like them!

[@dianaflower733]

I put some of these in a raised bed with lavendar and other herbs, they choked everything else out, then I added some yarrow to that bed and the yarrow choked out the JA. I obviously don't tend my beds good enough. :D

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Very interested! Thanks for sharing.

[@winkfinkerstien1957]

Thank you! I especially appreciate you showing how you store them after harvesting. I'm going to do this! 😎👍🏻🌻

[@d.w.stratton4078]

They're kind of like quack grass you can eat.... Love it.

[@whereswendy8544]

I have grave misgivings about planting sunchokes, just because of their invasiveness alone. I have experience, lol. But they are a great food source, indeed!

[@giiraffecoyotebear]

I have two huge patches of Jerusalem artichokes. I have to move my crosnes because they are in the same area, and being shaded. Interesting to note in regards to Mulberry, I have multiple baby mulberries planted in with my rugosa roses. The rugosas (8-10ft)shield them all winter, and I just trim the roses back in spring to let the trees put on growth, then the roses grow up and protect their tender wood in the winter.

[@carolschedler3832]

Our butternut squash was stored in our basement with newspaper between each and we ate the last of it in June this year!! I was so happy with the great flavor of the stored squash! Looks like you have lots! I didn’t know it could be stored out in the garage too. I’m in northeast Ohio zone 6 so our winters aren’t quite as hard as yours 😅

[@bluecreek6036]

I live down south I love the Jerusalem sunchokes I always wait until the Green Top has died back before I eat any and I never have the gas problem I love your Channel

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome! and thanks 😊

[@denisebishop9276]

You keep me inspired with your food forest to keep going with mine. I have Jerusalem artichoke seed growing and am excited to see how they grow.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome! Glad you were able to find some!

[@tymarkham5049]

You've given a gift to all humankind. it is now late January of 2022 and we might not survive without this knowledge of permaculture, no-till organic farming and nutrition. I ordered several pounds of Sunchokes to plant in my composted beds within the chicken-run areas.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks! I've borrowed so much info from so many people who have already laid the groundwork. We just need to get busy planting!

[@user-id7ut4yf2g]

I recently learned that Jerusalem artichokes is also good as a juglone tolerant crop if you have black walnut, pecan etc trees and want to grow other crops sensitive to juglone, you can plant these in between apparently. Iwas worried about invasiveness so I’m happy to know they can be mown back to control… thank you, love your videos!

[@ShannonV3]

Thank you! I just got some today and put them in a pot as I don't want to commit to a forever spot yet. This video was very informative!

[@kimanderberg1106]

I stayed around for the full video and picked up a lot. Thanks! You are doing it. This has been helpful in my permaculture design.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks Kim 😊

[@lindajohnson6163]

Oh boy! I never understood Jerusalem artichokes. There are so many deer around. They’ll love them.; plus I get to eat them too. I’m so excited.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

They are fantastic. They deflect so much deer pressure. I may make some JA for dinner tonight actually. So good.

[@Sol_Solis_]

In the past, I have grown sunchokes in a semi-industrial scale for a few years, and still growing some in containers in my garden. I already watched a lot of videos about sunchokes, and I think your video is the only one, that really shows the capabilities of this plant; how much it can yield. 10 punds is a hell lot of sunshokes, from one plant! Congratulation. I see how rich and deep your soil, and, of course, also the climate matters, when we look at the yiled. Half of that is a very good result in my climate, in the normal hard calysoil we have, if I don't do anything with it, just plant the tubers and just let them grow as they can. One of the biggest difficulties in growing sunchoke is the poor storability of the picked tubers. It can only be stored in a cool place, in a special prism, or embedded in sand (or soil) with certain risks. Therefore, the collection of sunchoke for winter storage is not justified and should only take place in the presence of other restrictive circumstances. Also the picked tubers frost resistant only up to -4, -5 Celsius, while the tubers left outside in the ground, can resist frost up to -25 Celsius! Therefore the best way to store sunchokes during the winter, is to leave them in the garden in the ground! You should only dig up just the amount that you will eat, use, or sell. Also the most important thing, when you grow sunchoke, is that (depends on the variety you grow) the above-average sensitivity of the tubers to white mold, (especially when treating perennial stocks), which should be offset by rigorous selection! Do that same rigorous selection if you want to harvest large tubers. Always plant just the biggest ones every year, because, if you leave them in place and wont replant them every year, they tend to get smaller and smaller every year, and just spreads. Yes, you have to dig up as much, even the smallest tubers and larger roots, that can grow to a new plant. Lot of work, but you can have much better yield. Just think about it; you have nothing to do with the sunchoke in the growing season, so it isn't that much more work. My advise is about growning sunchoke, is that you guys really need to find a better variety! In every single video that I watched, are shows about the same variety which looks like the wild sunchoke. Those elongated sideroots, the relatively small and very "bumpy" tubers indicate this. I grow a variety that is refined for industrial farming, and that have much bigger, smooth and round tubers; they more looks like potatoes, without long sideroots. This one won't spread all around in the garden via those long side-roots, as the wild sunchoke. Of course, only if you replant them the way as I mentioned before. I harvested today one plant, take a look: keptarhely.eu/images/2021/01/08/v02/20210108v02umwilx.png

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Oh wow thanks for this amazing comment. So much good information in there. If my yield does drop over the years I would maybe pick up a new variety. I just get so many of these now for 4 years that I can't imagine ever spending money to get other ones. We just love these ones so much. I know a lot of people have been asking where they can get some, so hopefully people can find you and order off you. Feel free to add your link in response to other comments in here asking where to buy some. I don't mind you advertising your business in the comments.

[@przybyla420]

If moving the patch every year is an option then that could avoid having to root around for all the tiny ones and the big roots. Just get most of them and then get the stragglers by suffocate with sheet mulch or dig up as they sprout in the spring.

[@przybyla420]

Thanks for the tips! 🌻

[@przybyla420]

So if you dig up a plant but leave a few tubers, they can survive -25 C without turning to mush? But if you replant some you stored until late winter or early spring they won’t make it with extended weather below -5?

[@kiras6241]

When I was little, like 2yrs old, my parents used to grow them whole bunch and let the pigs go through. Pigs go nuts on them. Where I came from we call them "Pig Potatoes" Last fall, I made some pickles out of these sunchokes. They are great but you can only eat so much😅

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Nice!

[@lizfrazer9654]

What an inspirational video. I love your natural approach and the lack of formality. I planted a bunch of artichokes last Autumn and now it's March, so I hope to see some action soon. Thank you for a great watch.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Good luck 👍

[@pecker556]

I read about these a few years ago, but just ordered some for this growing season. Im so excited!

[@stephenwilder3525]

Got an order arriving in the mail. I can’t wait to plant some. Thank you for the time and effort to do an excellent video on the topic!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Enjoy!

[@christieheyblom]

I just bought one plant yesterday and I’m so excited to grow this! It’s been on my list for ages

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

❤️

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Even if you find you don't enjoy them that much, still keep some growing. One day you may need them and you will be happy you have food in the ground that is bulletproof and almost zero work. And it also doesn't look like food to people who may want to steal your food if food shortages happen.

[@zianitori1565]

sometimes I like looking at traditional gardening videos and seeing if I can glean a little more info about specific crops and I just watched one on jerusalem artichokes where a guy had them all spaced out in a traditional raised bed with a bunch of fertilizers and stuff. He pulls them out of the ground and I was shocked to see how little it yielded as the only video I'd seen of a harvest of them was this one by you. Yet another W for permaculture

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Haha nice

[@BigWesLawns]

It can also be fermented into a tea, and its one of the best pesticides on the planet. Put the whole plant in the ferment, roots, tuber, leaves, flowers, stems. Add leaf mold or finished high quality compost. Its a whole new world.

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

I've noted another use for the huge stocks (grind for compost or chop n drop) is cut in sticks, dry & use as fire starters (sunflowers & cornstalks work too).😊

[@kathyalexander5709]

Was told years ago that the tops made livestock feed. I don't recall if the tops were dried or silaged, assumed they were harvested a bit earlier for quality

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Deer love eating the flowers, so it wouldn't surprise me.

[@frustratedmajority851]

Im growing these as well. Theyre my #1 favortie crip as well... although i will say theyre a favorite for the voles as well. Little suckers are like heat seeking missiles for JAs.. they use mole tunnels to eat them from below. I had to make raised beds and pour large gravel onto the bottom before filling with soil. This prevents rodents from digging into the beds from below. Seems to work great

[@annemarielucas5561]

Brilliant information. Thank you. 👏

[@veronicajacobi8779]

mine are starting to come up! yay, and I am finding them in places that I forgot I had planted them too.

[@KiDoKidsYoga]

Hello Bud, from California. I just found your channel through my gardener Mom. I’m very much enjoying your knowledge. Thank you very much for your long videos. I watched to the end.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@carolschedler3832]

Thanks for sharing storage details too!!!

[@21stCPH]

Such an inspirational video!

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

Lots of info here. Thank you for sharing.

[@plumberrygardenpatch4869]

I received one JA from a plant swap last spring. I was going to wait and let them spread more before I dug them but a few minutes into your video, I hit pause and went out and dug mine up. I roasted most of the tubers and will replant the rest. I just had them for lunch while watching the rest of the video. These are so good!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome 👌 It's nice to replant as many as possible, but eating a few is key... so you know if this is a thing you even enjoy eating!

[@retajones5278]

Watching with longing, from 🥶the interlake of Manitoba. (Zone 2) so jealous. Wish I could grow peaches and heart nuts. 👍👍👍

[@borianarem9497]

Thank you so much for sharing! We are inspired to grow more.

[@gail-sw9xg]

Green pumpkins make a wonderful "apple" pie!

[@cherriemckinstry131]

They will gradually ripen..

[@gail-sw9xg]

@@cherriemckinstry131 Not really. They may eventually turn orange, but they will never really ripen.

[@bcraigphelps2649]

Great video, you're a excellent teacher!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks:)

[@spearageddon3279]

Wow! Great information. 👍👍

[@SlinkyDrinky]

wow it is so prolific! thanks for sharing, I am gonna add it to my collection of tuber plants,, I love all tubers and root crops.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed!

[@gibsongirl6816]

Lovely video! Ty! I only have a small raised bed but planted these last year and love them! Can't wait to see the harvest this year. They are already 10 times bigger! I can't think of a better way to use even a small space than delicious food thats so easy to grow!

[@boggledegop]

I'd never heard of these, they sound great! Thanks for the info!

[@boggledegop]

I got my seed tubers today and planted them, very much looking forward to growing these! Rewatching for tips :D

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Good luck! Put them where you want them forever... they are very prolific.

[@GrantMcIntosh]

Planted some yesterday then this video gets suggested. Phone is watching 👀😂 Some great information. I hope you're right about them. 👍🍻

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

LOL creepy!!

[@CookingLessonsforDad]

I just planted Jerusalem artichokes this last weekend. I am excited to see what happens!

[@maritariese4945]

I will try this as soon the winter is over. Its now end of Jan. Stockholm area Sweden. Sorry to say the soil is former sea bottom, clay. Especially your idea to make a fence towards the road is perfect.

[@philobroin8717]

Jerusalem stalks are great fire starter

[@learningallthetimes7655]

Nice video of info and identifying failures - sometimes those are hard to recognize as a newbie. Thanks :)

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks 😊

[@dudlebugbabyboo]

Just got my first sunchoke plant but decided since we are selling this house to put it in a lowes bucket

[@Genieac]

Thanks for the videos. I'm finding them interesting and inspiring. I'm about to go to the old field at the back of our property to pick some sunchokes and watched this first. I'm planning on bringing some home for the family and setting aside some to plant here and there in wilder places. I'm hoping a few establish and I learn more about what spots they like. My grandma makes pickles out of them which maintain excellent crunch and have good flavor and storage characteristics. Sun choke pickles come highly recommended by me.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

What does she use as her pickling juice? Typical stuff like vinegar, garlic, dill, thyme, peppers etc?

[@alexriddles492]

There is a web site called honest-food.net where I found a recipe. It's mostly vinegar for the pickling brine. As I understand it the acid helps to break down the inulin.

[@kescah]

@@alexriddles492 Wow, I wonder if you can do fermenting with some dill. I'll have to look into that.

[@jeffengel2607]

@@kescah I've heard some people swear by fermented sunchokes. I'd imagine dill would be fine with that.

[@Leonard73rr4]

Gracias por el vídeo!!

[@veronicajacobi8779]

long videos are great and you are a wizard with respecting and working with nature, and creative too

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks! I'm trying to get better at the editing side of things... I'm not the most artistic person, so I'm slowly learning LOL

[@LoriWingerBordessa]

Loved it! Thank You! I’m trying Jerusalem Artichokes for the first time! Thank You for all the great info and examples!

[@rustytindog]

Cheers mate brilliant well explained thanks from Australia

[@punisher6]

thanks for sharing, im on it!

[@mexluther]

Great job!

[@heidimartin1835]

Pickled? Fantastic!

[@mrcharrington1]

Another great video. I posted your link on a prepper forum I belong to. Every prepper should plant Jerusalem Artichokes.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Oh man, 100%. Food for life with these things, never have to plant again. This is prepper 101 level stuff.

[@errolstanford4013]

Like your work. I live in Texas. Wish I could visit you for a day or two. Keep it up.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Maybe one day!

[@sleepingroses761]

If for some reason you don't want to have them forever in your garden, Jerusalem Artichokes can also grow great in containers! Makes harvest somewhat easier at the end of the year, too.

[@juliehorney995]

I'd love to see how to prepare them including getting all of that soil removed. We had 3 huge plants this year, our first year!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

What I do is I bought one of those scrubbing brushes for cleaning grout in a shower tile, or scrubbing a toilet. I use that scrub brush (dedicated only to this task of course) for cleaning the JAs in my laundry sink. It works fantastic for getting into all the crevices.

[@patrickschooley3503]

Thanks, great video. I definitely enjoy your food forest. A personal aspiration of mine.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks and good luck with yours whenever it happens 😊

[@lisacunningham154]

I never heard of this plant . Your video is very helpful

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

❤️

[@pamstout]

Wonderful.

[@The-Ancestral-Cucina]

Great info! I had no idea Jerusalem Artichoke tasted like potato. I definitely need this edible in my gardening venture👍🏻

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Hope you enjoy

[@melanieallen8980]

very nice!!!

[@StayGold3333]

You have a solarpunk vibe that I really appreciate. Easy and native food security like sunchokes should serve as a baseline for any community!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks! Love the solarpunk movement.

[@baneverything5580]

I just received a small bag of five whitish egg shaped tubers to plant in my area as an emergency food supply. The cheapest I could find and they cost me 3 dollars each. So I`m hoping I don`t have to buy them again. Not sure what type these are but I need to learn more. I saw other types that look different...even purple ones. But this is a start for my new emergency food forest. I got a very expensive brown turkey fig plant too. I also ordered odd seeds like moringa, amaranth, New Zealand spinach and ordered jimica but they sent "potato" seeds for 14 bucks. I got a refund. Not sure what the seeds are.

[@Jjesses]

Thanks so much

[@sandymurray3997]

Blessed

[@obrienliam]

I biked 20 km to a farm to pick up a small plant of Jerusalem Artichokes (after watching this video). A month later after quite a bit of babying squirrels dug up the last morsel of tuber. There is one 1 cm sprout left, but my goodness...damn squirrels and their digging! Will try again with more protection next year!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Oh wow. You know, they may just show up next season nonetheless. Who knows what happens underground. They can regrow from a tiny hair root.

[@cherriemckinstry131]

I found that the green plastic snow fencing causes them to walk over it and the dont dig through or under.. I use it when I plant many things... keeps cats out too. Laying on the ground they may walk on it but dint per as they can't dig the dirt.

[@shames59]

hi there from new jersey stopped vidio at 7.14 time to order my Jerusalem Artichokes '

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Nice 👍

[@cherriemckinstry131]

I miss my sunchokes bed.. it was work to remove the tops but still fun.. and grew fast

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yeah if I ever did have to move, I would certainly bring these with me. They are so valuable.

[@mommapaige4273]

LOVE these things. Discovered them in a food box. This year(2020) was our first crop. Thanks for all the info. and tips. :) Happy planting.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome

[@deborahjudyboucher1072]

Thanks for the info, I had heard of them but didn't know what they looked like or what they tasted like. I don't like artichokes so never looked any further. I will now.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Oh yes, these are not at all related to artichokes. :)

[@joelegrand5903]

you explained so call no dig better than anyone. What they mean is no till, low dig. I always have to dig out perennial weeds & grasses, & wonder how these no dig people worked the perennial weeds with out chasing the root, cause like Jerusalem Artichoke you have to get every one or they come back. I can harvest with low dig & I wish the catch phrase was the truth & not what some wanted it to be. I wonder how my wine cap mushrooms will feel about the disturbance? Good video.

[@gregoryhunt9086]

My tubers arrived today and so I planted my first roots. This is mid-July.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Awesome! Make sure you plant them somewhere that you don't mind them being there forever and likely out-competing whatever is currently there.

[@lizabouchard5706]

Just weeded my area of them today

[@blaineclark]

I always let the tops die and dry, like potato tops. All the nutrients migrate down to the tubers making them bigger and tastier. With mine, and I've got three varieties, I've never noticed any difference whether cutting the flowers off made the tubers bigger or better and I've cut the flowers off of whole sections of my patches for making wine.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks for the experience. This year I trialed leaving half the bed up completely and I'm going to try to harvest some as soon as I can get a shovel in the ground and see what they look like.

[@natashamareeclairebradfiel1545]

thank you for explaining how to cook grow these im boiling some now and will make chips out of them

[@RussellBallestrini]

I'm sold. Now I just have to find a sane place to grow them.

[@kristimckeon6967]

You can also cure your JA by putting them next to a sunny window or setting them in a greenhouse or something of that nature for about a week to break down the inulin

[@carolschedler3832]

Had to rewind and watch doggo three times 😂

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

More doggos in our hiking and camping videos. We just did one on Skycroft. Also, search my channel for "Lucy" and you can watch the day we got her!

[@papaann4]

It's a miracle Plant.

[@PrairieJournals]

Southern Alberta my tubers are not that large. I'm hoping next year fall will be larger.🇨🇦. Yes, many volunteer during the years 😵

[@lydiamclaughlin7100]

Im excited to say that yesterday I went to Home Hardware on King street in Waterloo Ontario and in the back where they have the garden centre they were selling Jerusalem Artichokes- AKA fartichokes! LOL

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Wow cool!

[@caroldufur4807]

Love all the great information. I am just beginning to create a permaculture garden in my large backyard. At age 78 sounds much easier than planting annual gardens. I watch many you tube features about this type of gardening, and find yours the best for me. Would the jerusalem artichoke be ok near a creek?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Wonderful! What a great hobby and passion. I hope to be able to enjoy it my entire life. Yes absolutely they will do wonderful near a creek. You will likely get very large crops there with such fertile soils. Just be really careful where you out them because they do spread. Ideally these are planted somewhere with a boundary on each side, so that they don't get too out of control. If you don't think that is possible, you can always grow them in pots, or recycling bins, etc.

[@jessicalandi6750]

Is it too late (June 5, zone 7) for me to plant jerusalem artichokes?! I've got to get some. Oh wait, lol, reading more of the comments and I found my (your) answer. (It's not too late. Get some and plant them asap.) What a food source!! I'm so excited to plant these.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed, not too late at all. The tubers will shrink as the plant turns that energy into a new plant for the season, but they actually transplant well. I think at this point in the season though there should still be a decent amount of tuber on each plant. I dug some up for someone today and each plant still had a tuber the size of a quarter attached to it still.

[@LymerPaul]

I hear that Winter Savoury (herb) - when consumed with Jerusalem Artichokes - prevents some of the 'Fart'ichoke issues. Companion plant it and they'll both take over planting beds together.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Haha awesome. Thanks for sharing.

[@blaineclark]

Freezing, hours long cooking, cooking with an acidic ingredient and fermenting are 4 ways to convert the fiber Inulin they're packed full of into Fructose. And of course that makes them sweeter too.