i wanted to fry up some sunchokes to go with lunch today so this morning i went out in the back and dug up a stand of eight jerusalem artickoes...the weather was fine and it rained overnight so the ground was soft...those eight, tightly packed plants, which never got tremendously big because the were in half-shade from the locust trees all summer, yielded over sixty tubers...i have one more bed to dig up and so far i have replanted thirty tubers for next year ( plus the twelve or so on campus and any rouges i decide to keep next spring) and still have another bed to replant...they rhyzome barriers all seem do have done the job of containing the tubers...so, hopefully all the rouges ( and there will be rouges) will be on my side of the property line...my neighborhood reputation is weird enough already with out being responsible for an invasion of hardy, ineradicable plants.
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