...and, depending on your viewpoint, the season is perilously close to over...or it's just about to begin...i cleaned out ( i think...almost...bound to be some volunteers )the raised bed where i buried about half the jerusalem artichoke harvest last fall...we have eaten them a variety of ways, but fried seems to be the method of choice ( au gratin is mine...cheese)...whatever way you cut it the sixty odd tubers i pulled out of the ground this morning means we've utilized about half of what's out there...if memory serves me correctly it was last april that the parent plants of these little devils started to appear on campus...so i have about a month to eat some four hundred jerusalem artichokes or face the task of culling plants that i have absolutely no desire to see colonoize my entire yard...and they will...fourteen plants produced over eight hundred tubers...that's an average of fifty-six, or so, tubers per plant...prolific...good job they taste just fine (sweeter than apotato...not as sweet as a sweet potato)...i do have them planted around the yard and there are some on campus as well so i am expecting a fall harvest of more than a thousand ( yes i will count them...last year was actually eight-hundred and eleven)...they have held up well over the winter...i have found less than half a dozen that were spoiled...that is encouraging...although as the weather warms that could change...we'll see...the nut that needs to be cracked is access during winter...i'm kicking around a few ideas, including a root cellar, but there are constraints that may render that impossible...so i am still searching for ideas...i have until next fall.
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