This year was the first year we grew sunchokes or Jerusalem artichokes.
We grew them all organically and have enjoyed having them in the
garden. It is time to harvest, and lets see what we have!
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The sun chokes are better (sweeter) and bigger after the frost, when the leafs are brown. Some years I pick up them at the first snow. Peal it if you don't want digest problem. I don't know why, some years they bloom in september and some they don't.
Fun harvest. Congrats on your first time Sunchokes.
What do you add to your soil in order to retain water? I have been using coco coir instead of peat moss. Do you think I really need to add coco coir to retain water, or am I wasting money? Also do you think I need to keep adding coco coir every season or so to main the water retaining abilities?
Got these planned for my new garden next year, looks like they will be fun to grow. Thanks for the great video.
Leave your smaller sunchokes with some dead leaves to be like a fertilizer
I'm pretty sure your issue is little sunlight. I got sunchokes growing for like 10 years and never fertilized the soil but they keep growing and producing big "potatoes". They do grow however in totally sunny places getting all the sun from dawn till dusk and some of them grow up to like 3 meters (~ 9 feet), no exaggeration.
To us they're like weed since it's hard to get rid of them – I once pulled them all out and the next year they somehow grew again, so they require zero maintenance.
Apparently they do contain more nutrients and minerals than potatoes, but are not practical for storage (because their skin is much thinner than that of a potato) and peeling their skin off is harder because their surface is more bumpy. On the plus side they don't suffer of any diseases and apparently no parasite or worm eats them – have never encountered a partly eaten sunchoke "potato" in my life.
They are nice to have though just because they add more diversity to your food options and the best way to eat them is raw because, as usually, when heat is applied to vegetables they lose part of their nutrients.
Hello luke, i am new at sunchokes, , in Washington State, can you give me any advice on this plant, will be in container probably, when to plant and harvest?. Thank you Luke, Sincerely Rick
1) Like potatoes the sunchokes' yield is directly proportional to the amount of sun they get.
2) Planting the tubers further apart would yield less plants but they'd be taller and yield bigger tubers.
3) You're harvesting them while still green, though one should wait until they get dry and brown.
Why are your plants so small?
Luke…. Would you consider trying to re-grow sunchokes again?? I'm going to try growing them this season for the first time here in my SW Florida garden. I'm excited to try growing these… Hope you have a good day
I have an amazing recipe for Sunchoke soup. I know this was from 3 years ago but I mean, it doesn't hurt to share. So cook bacon, remove them once they are cooked, leave the oil and cook your sunchokes in it, add white onions, garlic, thyme, cook until they're soft and translucent. And then add stock (chicken or vegetable or pork stock), boil then simmer until sunchokes are fully cooked. Then puree it. Add some parsley if you'd like to make the soup a nice green tint. And then add cream or milk. Then garnish it with crispy bacon strips. Probably the best soup you will ever have I promise you. It's amazing. Another tip, while you're puree-ing them, add cold chunks of butter. It will help smooth it out. It's amazing.
Harvested to early.
Where can you find sunchoke seed or rhizome? I ordered some off Ebay last year and they never grew.
Just found this. 2017 is my first year to grow them. Perhaps timing and sunlight kept yours small that year. Update? God bless
I know this is an old video. I grew mine in pretty good sun and in clay horrid soil. They love a long growing season. The stalks of mine were at largest 3" wide. I hope you tried these since then. Oh, and I never fertilized them. I totally forgot about them. The only fertilizer came from my beloved veggie loving dog. Blessings!
I wish you sold these.
I don't feed mine anything really – just mulch of leaves and decent drainage, and they produce copiously. I know people with a veritable sunchoke forest in their yards, and the soil is very hard and gravely – very hard to dig with a shovel – and yet, tons of tubers. They seem to adapt themselves in any kind of soil or dirt, like Japanese knotweed and are very aggressive. The only point of well draining soil is making them easier to clean after harvest.
I'm growing them in a wine barrel and literally they are trying to sneak out of the container so be careful where you put them cause they say they are extremely invasive for a reason mine have gone under my container through the small holes and I have to clean it out completely before trying to grow anything else in it and check the ground underneath and all around cause even the smallest little tiny piece will grow the next season and invade your lawn!
You might have gotten more if you had waited till the plants died back to harvest them – they produce much worse gas when picked prematurely. I've seen them grow and produce very prolifically in the worst, rockiest, hardest ground, so you definitely didn't underfeed them. Maybe just wait till the late fall and more will develop. Leave some tubers in the ground, and they'll take off without any input from you.
Mine grow best in terrible soil. Seems like the worse your soil is the better they do in my experience. Also you should try digging them after the plant dies back all the way close to winter time. Enjoyed the video. Thanks!
Did you not try them again?
You, obviously, didn't do any research on Sunchokes.
Years after the video…..here I am Haha. I've grown these for years. Not contained they spread like horseradish. The tallest one I had was 13 feet. Yes. Thirteen.
.Hello i just harvest my first sun chokes and i was so excited ,so many of them and big as an apple ,and nice flavour and test,but then it cames the untold storry .Anybody any idea how to eat them to avoid the side efects gase and stomack upset.
Well from what ive heard, they do more grow after flowering. like a potato, wait till plant is done and dies back. Ive grown, seems like a better yield grown with roots area shaded. Let grow tall, they get many flowers. Then they die back when cold hits. Take care. Im in Tx, gets pretty hot. Mine may be why needed more shade.
I live in northern Ohio and leave some them in the ground until spring. The spring harvest is MUCH sweeter and more crisp. Peel them like a potato and get the fresh taste. Cut up and toss them in salads or sprinkle Garlic Expressions over them. SO EASY to grow.
You harvested waaay early. Did you continue growing them?
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