How to Grow Jerusalem Artichokes (Sunchokes)!
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- This might be a new crop for many of you. Jerusalem Artichokes (also known as sunchokes) are fairly new to me as well, but I am looking forward to producing a sustainable and abundant source of food here on my farm. Come along wish me as I show you how to grow this prolific root crop!
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Jerusalem Artichoke. They were a regular part of French diets during Nazi occupation, when the plentiful tubers supplemented limited food rations. We plant Jerusalem Artichoke .
Canned as pickles and relishes is how we prep most of ours - better than cukes! Raw sliced in salads or just nibble on them raw. Toss them into soups, stews and onto roasts. Roasted, oven fried, pan fried, stir fried (sliced like bamboo shoots or chunked like water chestnuts), deep fried like potato chips (then dress with salt, pepper, herbs or other seasonings), boiled, steamed, mashed like potatoes, dried raw slices put in a food processor and ground into flour, sliced and tossed onto pizzas for a new flavor and a crunchy texture, shredded for hash browns with one adjustment. They're wetter than potatoes, so for hash browns squeeze some of the moisture out of them, especially if you're going to freeze them first. I've dropped them into a jar of pickled beets and eggs and after a couple weeks they disappeared somehow and I had purple fingers ... They can be shredded and fermented like sauerkraut, chunked and mixed into Kimchi and they can be used for fridge pickles.
I made wine out of tuber broth and flower broth. The tuber broth wine was pretty darned stout for a drinking wine but it made a great cooking wine. The flower broth wine was good straight and blended with other wines.
We love 'chokes and experimenting with them. Of course we've tossed some in the trash, but most of our experiments have turned out really well! Another one I want to try is boil, mash and dry some to see if I get instant 'choke flakes.
You'll hear "They'll take over"! Well, they can, but if you can put them where you can mow a 3' border around them, you can keep them contained in your yard, one end of the garden or wherever you can get your lawn mower. If you put them in one end of your garden, DO NOT PLOW OR TILL them! That will spread them into the rest of your garden. Do not toss the stalks into your mulch pile. Any bit of root WILL survive and anywhere you use that mulch will likely have a 'choke or three showing up. I use a cheap electric chipper. I pull the stalks when they're dead and dry in late fall, take what tubers come up with, then chip the stalks and spread them over the patch. When I grab the sod fork to dig for the deeper ones in the spring I turn those chips under where they build up the soil. If you want to get rid of them, just keep mowing over them. The tubers will run out of energy from trying to sprout and give up the ghost. One summer of mowing should take care of them.
Thank you for all of the great information!!
Beautiful, thank you!
I've got my Sunchokes from years ago. They're coming up right now which means I can find the ones I missed. It will reduce them but I don't believe they'll ever be gone hehe. They can be prolific but other plants can compete with them. I have a rosebush growing alongside mine. Some people love the tall yellow flowers so much, they ask me for some and I have to chuckle because they might not fully understand what they're asking for here. No one ever owns a sunchoke really, a sunchoke will easily own you though. lol
Truer words have never been said
Hilarious
I bought ONE 30 years ago aarg
Thanks for your video! I am moving my Jerusalem Artichokes into a raised bed this year and I really enjoyed watching your video!
Thank you for the info Im planting sunchokes for the first time this year
I love them! They can get out of hand on you quickly though haha hope they do well for you!
Great video man! Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you, The More You Know, for showing the sunchokes having been germinated on the same video.
I just bought some of those so I am very excited to plant them! You video was very helpful, thank you 🙏
Thank you for the very useful informations which nobody talks about.
I just found you & subbed! Jerusalem Artichokes grow wild here in Iowa but I never knew they were anything but a pretty flower!! We had a large patch of them on our yard along a field & they must have died out. I have ordered some tubers & am looking forward to planting them. Thank you for your video-looking forward to seeing more!
Going to do my 1st run of sunchokes next year!
My kind of gardener. I will check out the borage, we love all the beneficial insects.
Thanks! Hope you're well brother!
Good to know you can split/divide the tubers. Thanks for the video. Best wishes to you and your family
Nice video thanks for sharing. Can't wait to see you dig them up. I will look for that video. I subbed you. I grew some and they grew to 10ft beautiful flowers but nothing under ground. That happened twice. This is my last try in different spot. :)
Really odd. Is the area wet? Excessive moisture can rot the tubers. There is a relative that doesn't grow tubers. What did you plant, tubers or seeds?
@@blaineclark I planted beautiful tubers. I put them in a bucket I till spring. They were very fresh when I planted them they grew very quickly. It just may have been the moist ground. Thank you
That video will be coming up very soon!
Thank you for the wonderful instructional video!
Let your fartichokes sit and air a couple days and the inulin will convert to starch and they will quiet down
Oh cool great to know!
Wow leaned a lot Thanks great information
One tuber in my raised 8 x 8 bed 10 years ago has taken over the entire bed and now are making their way out of the bed. Beautiful 8-foot flowers and I don't have a ton of sun. You will never dig them all up.
Never ever 😂
Loved your video. We ordered our first bag of tubers for planting. They were kept in the garage for a week or two, and when they were brought out for planting, most of the tubers had what looks like a mold on parts of the tubers. Should we cut off the mold? The tubers are sprouting and some of the tips of the sprouts have black on them. I don’t know if that makes the whole tuber bad or not. The tubers seem pretty large to me.
Thank you for your videos. We hope to learn a lot and become good gardeners!
And thank you in advance for your answer!
Marshall
Sorry for the late reply! I’d say just go ahead and plant them. If you wanted to try to get rid of some of it you could spray a little hydrogen peroxide on them but probably not necessary as long as the sprouts look healthy
Best thing is to try them before planting them. I planted some 5 years ago didnt like the flowers or the tubers. Now i'm still trying to get rid it them.
Haha yes. That’s why I suggested plant some in a big container first if they can’t find them in the store to try first. Once the are planted in the ground you’ve got a gift that keeps on giving whether you want it or not 😂
Trying em tonight. May my stomach br happy
I will definitely try to grow them.. thanks on great video.
Oh-oh. The person I got them from said they wouldn't spread. They are gaseous so go slow when eating. I read its called the diabetic potato.
I planted one five years ago which has turned into a forest. They spread like crazy. Like the man says you will not be able to dig up all the tubers so put them in a container or raised bed.
Thanks for the info. I grow Jerusalem artichoke for the first time, but the leaves are bigger than yours, and the stems are big, too, i wonder if there's more variety of this plants.
Could be.
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☝️ Plants reach 3-4 meters / 13ft in height very quickly and are ideal for a pop up hedge or a wind barrier for the summer months. Tubers are plentiful and can overwinter outside without frost damage. They do particularly well in no dig lasagne gardens and perennial mulched gardens. It’s latin name is Helianthus Tuberosus. They’re not from Jerusalem and they are not artichokes either. The original name is Giro Sol, to turn with the sun which in Italian sounds like Jerusalem and they have a similar flavour to artichokes.
keep growing.
Thank you.
Those who survived the 30 Years War were those that planted JA's. The Armies pretty much stole all the food they could find. Preppers should be sticking them everywhere! 😉
I look forward to seeing more videos about these, especially how you personally prepare them to eat. They've been on my to-grow list for awhile. Have you looked into growing Oca and other rare tubers? Would they do well in Texas?
I have grown Oca. It did not do well here. It is from the cool and dry climate of the Andes. Just too hot for it here I think. It might do well somewhere like Idaho though. I would like to try Yacon though
I’ve grown them in North Texas. They grew fantastic. They love sunlight and water, but not too much
Day length is also a factor. These Andes root crops want to form tubers starting in autumn further south which is too late in most places in the USA. Northern Idaho or Portland, OR might work for these root crops.
Texas has heat and if you provide decent soil, sun and water you can grow a LOT of sweet potatoes or yams. Depending on where you live if you have access to an Asian grocery store that carries fresh vegetables you can buy more exotic varieties of sweet potatoes cheaply. Sweet potatoes are easy to propagate. There are short propagation videos on TH-cam. Yam French fries or cottage fries are delicious and keep your blood sugar stable since there is a lot of fiber in them. If you want to grow other tubers try growing jicima or radishes. My sister says that roasted radishes are much milder than fresh ones and delicious. Radish tops are a vegetable.
Place in ground and wait for sunchoke forest the end
I planted them in a large pot - to keep from spreading AND to keep inside away from the deer. They were going great, but suddenly flopped over. What am I doing wrong?
Just finished planting them this very minute and cooked up the rest to try for the first time. I really can't tell the difference between them and potatoes in terms of taste. Now I'm just waiting on the farts that I was promised. Lmao
Lol the farts definitely vary from person to person 😂😂
Great video, and only eat a sunchoke no bigger than an egg. That should be perfect, and not too much.
Thanks for video. Can store bought chokes be used to start planting?
Mine were store bought haha just as long as the eyes/nodes look healthy
I’d love to see your flowering Jerusalem artichoke. How bug do they grow and anxious to see the bloom
I’m going to try to grow some more this spring at my new house and will try to show that 👍
8 - 12 ft. tall. The blooms are big yellow daisies at the top of the plant. The stalks can get up to an inch thick. Dried and cut into sections those stalks can make good tinder for a fire. Jerusalem artichokes are heavy feeders so be sure to add compost or slow-release fertilizer to an established bed to make sure the plants are big and healthy so they can produce a lot of tubers for you.
When I start my new patch I plan to cut them back when they hit 4 ft so they aren't floppy and the foliage will be a lot thicker. I can use the cut foliage chopped up as green mulch.
What prevents the tubers from spreading past the raised bed? I do not understand.
p.s. I admire your courage. My mother was handicapped (polio),
The grass choked out anything else trying to grow outside of the bed but if you have uncovered soil around it, it will spread.
@@TheMoreYouGrowh😢
This is off topic of the video, but I also wanna de how you prepare these. They look like they can taste good! I wanna start to maybe grow something small that I could keep in my house. Could you maybe do a video about different flowers that could be inside or that can easily grow outside?! Thank you!
Hey Matt! I’ll definitely do a follow up video on how to prepare these. I can also definitely try to do a video on something on indoor plants. There are lots of options for indoor plants. Not as many flowering kinds but there are some good ones! Do you have access to a sunny window?
The More You Grow I do actually! I have one in my room lol
@@TheMoreYouGrow I never had much luck with houseplants I'm to lazy to water them. Recently I tried wicking. My houseplants are beautiful now.
Jerusalem artichokes taste sweeter than a potato and are slightly nutty. To avoid gassiness you have to boil them for 8 - 9 minutes. In smaller doses like shredded raw to add to a salad they shouldn't cause digestive upset. Pickling Jerusalem artichoke would help reduce the inulin which people have trouble digesting.
Sir, How long to grow up artichokes, from begining until harvest?
How to get the tubers of them
I want to plants in indonesia
Thank you for your respond 🙏
It’s around 3-4 months. I plant in the spring and harvest at fall right after first frost, but can be left in ground and harvest throughout winter. Just dig them up when ready. Not sure if you can get these in Indonesia or if they are safe to grow there (might be really invasive, they can be here) but that’s how I do it here
Looking for the harvest video... and I have lovely stalks but they still aren't flowering, is that normal?
"Play it by ear?" Hahahahaha
thanks for advise, i live in zone 4 up north, when is a good time to plant,after frost??
Yes after frost
I have a pollinator garden that I am always looking to diversify, I can not find the plant you called "foraging flower" can you help me find it. Might it go by a different name? thank you
Oh I planted Borage is what it’s called. Great for pollinators, especially bees 😁
I buried mine about 6" deep, and after a month, I still don't see any sprouting.
I just found some of these tubers at a local outdoor market two days ago and I have them in the refrigerator.
My goal is to plant most if them (I bought about 10 tubers).
1. Is it okay to store them in the refrigerator for a few days?
2. Is it okay to plant them in 90+ weather now (Zone 9-South Louisiana)?
I have no experience with Jerusalem Artichokes and I'm anxious to get them growing.
Love your videos and I just subscribed! Thank you.
how are they doing? Im from south Louisiana too.
Great video.
So how many stems grow from one tuber? Only 1 or multiple from every eye?
Thanks
Usually just one, but if the stalk is broken off it can send up another from another eye
@@TheMoreYouGrow Thank You
How do you avoid deer etc from eating the sunchokes?
And, can you plant the kind you buy in the store to eat as a vegetable?
There’s really no good way to avoid deer other than tall fencing. There are tricks/products marketed to do this but I’ve seen little effect from them. As far as planting the from grocery stores that is exactly how I started these 😁 so yes it can be done
I just planted an organic sun choke from the natfood store - my first 'crop'! I can't wait till they grow up!
Thanks for your video! I love sunchokes! I planted some in a bed with potatoes and usually I keep burying my potatoes as they grow up. Would this be harmful to the sunchokes are they OK if you add soil or straw along the length of their vertical stem? Thanks again and look forward to seeing your reply!
I wouldn’t think it would hurt too bad, but then again I’ve never done it to know how they respond haha
@@TheMoreYouGrow Thanks for replying. Enjoy!
I just started to grow these this year for the first time because I read they are good for diabetics. They help control your sugar. However I know next to nothing about how to grow them or even used them except I read they can be used in salads. So my plants are real tall and seem to have been growing for months now but no flowers. I have them growing in a wooden bucket with organic dirt. But should I be fertilizing them? And I just read you don't harvest until late October and November. Here now in Oregon it is the 20th of August but no flowers. Am I doing anything wrong? I believe I planted them in June. They get plenty of sun and watering. But again I do not know hardly anything about growing them. After reading all the above, what more can you tell me on how to make sure my plants is healthy and produces. Thank you.
Flowers are necessarily required for a good harvest, they can just be a signal for harvest. I know I’m late on this comment but just give them a dig down in the late fall and see what you get!
What state are you in? I'm in central Texas. Do they grow here?
I’m in north central Texas. They will definitely grow haha
@@TheMoreYouGrow , the chain-link and cedar picket fences made me think you were close! Thanks!
i am growing them this year in Central Texas. protect them from deer if u have any,they have repeatedly ate mine down to bare stems!
can you eat them all year round? mine came up with too many plants. i hate to throw them out.
They become inedible after they sprout. The sprouts use up the stored tubers energy and they become hollow
What temp should you plant? After last frost or sooner in spring?
After last frost I would say
if they're sprouting with a little 1-2 inch shoot, do you still put them 6 inches under the soil (ie covering up the little shoot) or do you leave the little leaves above the ground which means the tuber will only be 1-2 inches deep?
I would plant them a little shallower but still cover them a bit. It helps the shoots to grow stronger if they have a little resistance before emerging. I’d say around 4 inches
@@TheMoreYouGrow Super helpful! Thanks! ^_^
Where is a good place to purchase them, so I can grow them as well?
I actually found these for sale in my HEB lol I’d say just do an internet search and I’m sure there are plenty of places selling the tubers for planting. Could possibly sell you some this spring as well. Send me a message over on my Facebook or Instagram. Links are in description 😁
Great if you are diabetic...
Will they survive a zone 4 winter?
From what I’ve seen they’re hardy from zones 3-9
@@TheMoreYouGrow Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. I ordered them and can't wait to get some dirt under my nails.
Does it attract caterpillars?
Not that I’m aware of
what time of year you absolutely should not plant these. sorry, I can't hear, if you mentioned this in the video.
Really I’m not sure if there is a wrong time of year to plant them. If it’s cold they will probably just remain under ground until the weather warms up. They hang out in the ground all year long here in zone 7b/8a
do you have any sunchoke's available to buy?
you can buy them from some supermarkets when they're in season :)
I don't even know how to cook that LOL
There’s lots of info online but you would cook the in most was that you would potatoes. I will also make a video on how to cook them once they are ready for harvest 👍