Growing and harvesting SUNCHOKES, the EASIEST SURVIVAL CROP
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มี.ค. 2024
- Sunchokes are amazing. From a hobby gardener's standpoint, they can be a nightmare because of how they spread and are hard to kill. From a survival and preparedness standpoint, they are the holy grail of survival crops for the same reason! They thrive on neglect, they tolerate any soil, high temps of 115F, and lows of -30F. Once you plant them in the ground, they will always be there for you (whether you like it or not). Those traits are EXACLY what you want in a survival crop to feed your family and animals no matter what happens. If you really want them out from an area, you have to let them grow a little so you know where the roots are, then you can dig 'em out by the root. They also build soil and improve bad soil to help you grow crops that are a little more picky about conditions!
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Sunchokes, sunflowers, winter wheat/rye, horseradish, asperagus, walking onions, oregano, and cherry tomatoes are bordering on weeds for me. Sometimes, the volunteers look better than the ones I planted!
Mint(as in, almost every member of the family), strawberries, fennel and garlic also grow like weeds basically here but the sunchokes and catnip take the crown for sure.
I planted 1" bottom from celery and it's over 5 ft high.. and survived 2 English winters
For those in the south, I live in SC, on hard compacted sandy soil, with high heats, weeks of droughts, and unforgiving storms. I ordered sunchokes to plant this year, and I put them in the ground in March. It is now July, and they have not only grown but multiplied once. They are targeted by insects, but resist them heavily. I only need to water them twice a week in the droughts, and never when it rains. They are tearing up the soil and bringing in oxygen while they spread, and bringing grass back to a barren patch of my land. I highly recommend them.
What a great experience! You can help them along further by opening up the soil a bit with a pitchfork. Their roots will spread better that way
Keep making videos. The rabbit colony with natural food is a topic I've been looking for for years. I knew it was possible, you're the only one I've found that's shows it is.
Thanks, will do!
Yes the concept of raising not only your own food but the food to sustain your meat and milk animals as well is always top priority imo.
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My mother raised sunchokes when I was a child and made pickles from them. I don't have the recipe but they were savory and tangy and absolutely delicious.
I love low maintenance crops! Just ordered some Thanks!
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I planted about 4 or 5 of them last May. I was so worried I'd screwed it up that I pulled one up a few weeks after because I thought I put it in the wrong way. However, it had sprouts on it so I re-planted it and by summer's end, had about 8 tall plants with flowers. It had sent out shoots several inches from the original tubers so that's how I ended up with double what I planted. After harvesting about half in the fall, intending to harvest more this spring but never got around to it, I already, as of May 21st, have at least 15? plants? And they are thigh high already, and I'm in southern Wisconsin. Also, I've done absolutely nothing to them this year. Last year, I watered them sometimes and weeded around them, but this year, I pulled one out to give to a friend, but that was it.
Keeo it up and that poor soil spot won't be so poor. Thank you for helping out the small man, educating, and giving us the tips needed to be more self-suficient and a better tender to the land.
Everything you said in the video we found out the hard way wahahaha.
In my country they are known as "aardpeer" and they are a forgotten vegetable. So nobody knew what they where when a neighbour showed up with a bucket of what looked like ginger with identity issues. We where like "let's yeet it in the ground and see what happens, looks like it's edible". Oh how naive we where...
Now we do know tho and we have a nice harvest. They seem to grow well together with plants from the mint family, another family of edible plants that are basically weeds. Catnip, citrus balm, spearmint, etc, etc...
They all don't seem to care about the sunchoke's shenanigans, smell lovely and come back even after digging the soil for getting the tubers. Wild fennel also doesn't seems to care to much and has lovely flowers.
Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.
The tip you provided @7:23 is an excellent one. Helianthus also attract wheel bugs .. a top insect predator. Sunchokes get very VERY tall .. so I put them behind our Canna Indica X Purpurea for a very nice summer display .. especially if the hemerocalis are still blooming when the sunchokes start to put their flowers on. Folks like to admire the flowers .. but all three of those plants are monster calorie producers.
I have had helianthus tuberosa survive in a field with Seminole pumpkin. It is a STRONG plant.
I grew these for a few years. Super easy, but I got rid of them because they spread to my neighbors and got too big. Zone 4 MN. But they are nice
It took me 3 yeats to get rid of...
@g00seegg37 a few times. I grew them mostly for landscaping
Thank you! I was wondering how they'd grow in northern Michigan.
My brother had the same problem with these guys still hasn't gotten them under control 😂
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First time I have seen your videos.
This one kept giving me the giggles. Every time you mentioned anything to do with propagation.
My husband and I bought our first house 25 years ago. We didn't know what Jerusalem artichokes were. At the first time we put a garden in our yard. We cut and mowed down every thing that was growing. In the area,🎉 that we wanted our garden. After picking up all the big pieces of vegetation we then
rototilled.😂 We ended up pulling Jerusalem artichokes from all over our garden for the remainder of the time that we lived there When we killed we spread the soil out real good when we were done but we told so much that the soil was mixed up from where it was originally back-and-forth in sight to side on our garden. Oh man those plants were all over our garden and we didn't know that they were edible until after removed from the house otherwise we would have taken them all when we moved here. Or at least as many as we could.
Has anyone here made flour from these to make bread or made maybe pancakes like potato pancakes out of these I was just wondering
Not sure, but I like that idea
These have absolutely taken over our front yard perennial garden. I love the smell of the their flowers & I’m so glad to find parts of the plant are edible!!!
Only recently found your channel - I'm now a subscriber and loving your content 👌 G'day from Australia, keep up the great work mate 😊
Your work seriously has changed my life man! Keep it up!
Glad to hear it! Thanks so much!
it could be used as a pickle if you cut them like 4-7mm length and
put them in the right amount of salty water if nothing unusual happened it would taste crunchy andamazing
Excellent video! Thank you for giving all the details some videos leave out!!
Ordered some online earlier this yr waiting to get them.
Great vid!
Great video, thanks!
Wow... Something new i learnt today. For such an amazing plant, nobody talks much about it. How do you introduce it to a new area for the first time?
Just bury one of the tubers in the soil. If you're worried about it growing well, plant it with some compost around it, and mulch on top of the soil using straw, leaves, or woodchips. I have some growing in wild places, so i know I'll have an emergency supply if things go bad.
I love this channel!!
Great video basic information and very detailed information. Great for someone trying to decide if they want these in their garden.
Great video, thanks. I have my first raised bed with 5 tubers starting up.
Great video lots of information in a short video thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Looking forward to planting some of these Sunchokes. Live in the high desert pine juniper climate at 8,000 feet elevation. Not sure how they will grow. Thanks for the video.
They'll grow great! They do well in that sort of environment, especially open dry forests.
Nice, thanks.
Pretty cool, I'll try this year
Great video
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Just blew my mind that Amazon is selling Sun Chokes for eating/planting...!!!🤣👍👍
6 for $14.99...?
Gotta wonder...What doesn't Amazon deliver...?😂
Thanks again...Great channel. Telling my friends👍👍
Thanks so much!
These would be great for a flower bed with poor soil that I have. There's an abandoned area nearby where these grow wild. I think I'll go dig some up! Thanks for the video.
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Very cool!
His description makes me think of parsnips for some reason.... Now I'm curious if I can find them growing wild in PA. 😋🤔
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I like the dry grass on the soil. During the winter pile dry grass into evenly piles put potatoes on top and cover with more dry grass with some soil. Will be able to reap potatoes throughout the winter.
I love sun chokes low maintenance and delicious, food that doesn't look like food great for a 'shift', great vidyo
Not everyone feels the same they can be invasive but follow the root you can harvest them all, and control growth not easy, but my kids and I digging them up we have all learned a lot and have been able to control where they grow gotta stay active though spend time everyday in the garden
Awesome harvest 🤜🤛
Ok I need to try this
I like how I’ve seen everything in this video on TikTok just in small parts😂😂 still helpful to see it all in one place
even here in estonia relatively near to Tallinn they grow fine, in winter ground is way too hard to dig them up, but other time they are perfectly fine, usualy sprouts are seen around half a meter into the lawn, ewen parts where we park our cars, and since they grow fine even after no maitenence for 10 years we started to plant them into lots we don't plan on using in near time just to crowd out more annoying plants, colds as low as -30C in winters seem po be absolutely no problem for them
Sunchokes, Sunchokes, magical fruit;
The more you cook em the less you toot.
Great channel, man! My dream is to live in the countryside and be as self-sufficient as possible.
I love your videos! They are extremely informative! I was wondering if you had any experience/advice for leafy garden plants. I would love to know if there are any good combinations of plants/vegetables that can sustain each other through the seasons via either rotation or cooperative planting, that can work in small to medium backyard space. Of course, if you make a dedicated video about multiple planting options and how to grow a self sustaining, year-round garden in the future, that would be amazing!
Hey! The short answer is, perennials are your friend. There’s perennial kale, tree spinach, sea kale, skirret, and many others that you plant once and it grows forever. You can also collect seeds from them to plant more long lived crops in new areas
@@sagesmokesurvival I see I see! Thank you for the recommendations!! Looking forward to more videos of yours!!
I ordered some a few days back. I've got about 1.5 acres and want to limit what I mow and have a large garden/edible landscape.. Hopefully these help with the overall plan
@g00seegg37 still waiting on them to arrive but I'm hoping they'll take off
Awesome! They should be a great addition to your landscape! Just be ready for them to spread, and put them somewhere you're ok with that happening. They are a fantastic addition to food forests.
Gonna talk to my dad about trying to grow some of these out back, i think he'll be down with it
I planted half a dozen chokes last year. Left most of them in the ground. This year…explosion of stalks! My question is this: have you canned or dehydrated these? I like them roasted or fermented, but there’s going to be a ton of them this year. Thanks. Like your vids, full of info and succinct.
Love your content, been inspiring me to do more. How often do you replace the straw bedding for the rabbits? And is there wire buried under that too, to prevent burrowing? Cheers mate 🤙
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Howdy,
I have pretty sandy and clay like soil. You mentioned poor soil, sun baked area and freezing temperatures. How do these do in wet humid environments? I live in southern Louisiana these look like a great addition to our homestead.
Great video! Do you have any experience growing yacon? It's very similar but has the shape of a sweet potato.
Wonder if they can be run thru a still? 🤔
Huh. Neat.
Thank you for the knowledge. Where can I get sunchokes?
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What breed of rabbit do you have there ? Very good info video !
Can you mash them like potatoes? Thanks for the information.
Ever thought about using rabbit Poo for hydroponics
Can you make potatoe chips or French fries or messaged potatoes out of them?? 😁
Is there a source for the claim that they are allellopathic to nightshades? Ive found one thst said they are to lettuce seedlings but not that. Thanks in advance
How much water do they need?
We call them Fartachokes. Sliced and fried up with garlic and olive oil.
Are the seeds suitable for human consumption?
Will this grow with the Ruth Stout method? I have grown potatoes this way and it' super easy harvesting.
Yes it will! But the roots will dive into the soil too, so don’t expect to just pull back the straw to harvest
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Where do you purchase the sunchokes to plant?
He sales them on his link
Can you cut the tubers up to plant more or do you plant them whole?
You can cut them up to plant more like potatoes, but theres a chance of rot if you do that
Show us how you cook them
You can cook these in place of potatoes. They cook up just about the same
Question, except for keeping them in the ground what would you say is a good way to store them? Do like you do with potatoes and wrap them in paper and keep them in a dark cool place?
They don't store as well as potatoes when they're out of the ground. One thing that works well is to put them in a bin with sand or soil covering them, and keep it in a cool dark place. They should last months that way, but if it's above 50F or so, they may start sprouting.
do they do well in north texas? ft worth area -- it is obviously really hot in the summer, but it can also get really cold in the winter
Yeah they’d do fine there
I container planted 4 tubers about 3 weeks ago in a grow sack. Looks like two have sprouted. Is it ok to grow this way? I live in an RV park.
Totally fine to grow that way
You said that you can preserve them in the soil.
What's the best way to preserve them out of soil?
I'd imagine they're fairly similar to other tubers, where they last a while in a cold, dry place. a root cellar or pantry
Plant once,
Harvest forever,
Fart eternally.
Are the other parts of the sunchokes edible? Flowers, stems, roots? Do they have the same storage caution potatoes do? Thanks for the info, never heard of these until today!
Edit: anecdotally I’ve heard a human can survive long term on potatoes and some citrus. Can the sunchoke do that? I have limited planting space and want to make the right survival choice
I don’t know how long someone can live on sunchokes, but they’re so high producing with so little effort they take the lead over potatoes that way. Best to have both if shtf. The flowers and leaves are edible, and the stalks are too if you peel the tough fibers out first to make it palatable.
I’m curious as to why, if they’re so dependable, prolific and good for you, they’re not more popular? I’ve never heard of them until you made this video.
Probably because of preference. For example, turnips are a very old very dependable European crop that can be grown in high densities, and grows fast. For some reason, it is almost unheard of in American cooking. It's not because of a disadvantage of the plant or it's nutrition. It just fell out of style. Sunchokes were once very popular and common in both America and throughout Europe. Perhaps they're so easy to grow by common people, farmers lost incentive to grow them for profit. Without farmers growing them, people started cooking with them less, and eventually forgot about them. Thats just my own speculation. Potatoes also fill the niche pretty well, and are definitely loved throughout the continent. Only downside to potatoes is their diseases, and that the rest of the plant is toxic
About 40 years ago there was some sort of scam about using them for biofuel, and a lot of farmers lost their shirts (this JUST before the farm crisis). Sunchokes have been out of favor as anything but a self-sufficiency crop since then.
Man, turnip greens are a part of life in Alabama
This has nothing to do with the video. Well, it kinda does cause it's about you, and you're making the video, haha. But anyways, has anyone ever said you look like t.j. miller? The guy in that movie office christmas party and he's been in others as well but that's one of the most popular ones. Everytime I see you I think that.
The gassyness is the most fun part.... great when fed to people and dinner parties by slicing thinly and putting in salads tastes the same as water chestnut... but 5 mins later everyone is trying soo hard Not to Fart 😂🤣😂🤣💨💨💨💨💨💨💨😱
Do you have other plant like these? And where could you obtain these plant?
I have a link in the description to purchase some of the roots for growing
@@sagesmokesurvival thank you
I bought some to plant, but after trying a piece/cooked, it jacked me up. 12hrs of stomach discomfort/knotted up. Tossed them in the trash.
They're made into booze in Germany. Maybe you can grow them for THAT purpose...
Are they available in Europe or are they forbidden here?
How does your family like to cook them?
I make a creamy blended sunchoke soup, or more often, I slow cook them with rabbit meat and other root veggies to make stew. I have also fermented them in a salt brine. Doing that and then cooking will take care of the gassiness.
how deep does their soil need to be?
If growing in pots or above ground, a minimum of 8 inches of soil should do well.
@@sagesmokesurvival thank you im going to do raised beds so they dont grow crazy
Would you be interested in selling some, have ordered some from seed catalogs. But got only small chunks, not viable.
I got some online, planted in containers and they're coming up fine, try washing your tubers before planting, some growers spray the tubers with growth retardants if they're sold for consumption rather than planting.
Don't some call them fart-a-chokes
What part of America do you live in?
Idaho
I’m in the foothills of Eagle and these grow wild all over the place. I’ve heard they can be tough to digest and my wife may kick me out of the house if I get any gassier 😁.
Putting them in stew sounds like a good thing to try.
Thanks for the video.
So u just feed the tops to your rabbits.
He fed them tubers in the video. They seemed to like them, ran up and started munching as soon as he put some on the ground
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong… they are not growing!
If you cook the fartiness out of them, you have eliminated the entertainment value
i wouldnt eat that raw hell no probably high as hell in antinutrients