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17 Aug 23, Jamie (Australia - temperate climate)

It took a while but I have learned to love Sunchokes. Undoubtedly the easiest and most prolific vegetable of them all. But what to do with them ? Boil them, roast them, grate them into salads, slice them into stir fry. I use them mainly as a filler. They thicken soups and stews and I mash them up with my spuds. Very economical. they don’t have a long shelf life (which is why they are ridiculously expensive) so I tend to leave them in the ground until I use them. If you have a lot of sunchokes - and you will - you can be brutal when you peel them. But keep the peelings out of the compost or you’ll end up with sunchokes everywhere ! Warning : They can be ‘noisy’. Not recommended for date night or before attending the cinema.

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26 Jun 23, Neil Baldock (Australia - temperate climate)

Wood Love to buy a few to plant in my garden in Mannum South Australia

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01 Jul 23, Chris (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

you can plant the ones you buy at a supermarket or markets

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29 Jun 23, (Australia - temperate climate)

Buy from an online gardening site.

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25 Jun 23, Lynn (South Africa - Semi-arid climate)

My Jerusalem Artichokes had very few tubers. Almost nothing. The soil is semi-sea sand in a winter rainfall area. The colour of the soil is like sea sand. What can I add specifically for Artichokes?

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29 Jun 23, (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)

Buy in some good soil and add compost manures etc.

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26 May 23, I lived in zone (USA - Zone 4a climate)

I lived in zone 5a. Yes you can grow sun chokes. I now live in zone 4 I'm still growing sunchokes And a full garden, you just have to be creative, lol.

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26 Apr 23, Denise (USA - Zone 5a climate)

An old timer told me if you wait until after the first frost to harvest the tubers they cause much less flatulence. He said before the first frost they call them fartichokes. : ) Planting for the first time this year and will definitely apply this advice.

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01 Apr 23, George Antoon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Hi everyone Sunchoke is planted in April (Sydney) harvested in April. I’m pleased to give you some to plant but in April 2024.

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28 Jun 23, Neil Baldock (Australia - temperate climate)

Hi thank you so much did grow some in Melbourne but now live in Mannum South Australia on the River Murray

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