harvest with a purpose

it's october and the jerusalem artichokes...

have pretty much died back...

so i cut them down to neaten things up a bit ( and found anothe gourd on the vine while i was at it )...

i dug a shallow trench down the center of the bed...

and retrieved eighty odd tubers ( doubtlessly there are many i missed )...

of various shapes and sizes...

which i put in a bucket and covered with compost to preserve them for another attempt at rewilding the plants in any suitable location i can find...

the disjected aerial bulbs from the egyptian walking onions i found...

i moved to a new bed along with the ones that had already rooted in the path of the trench i was digging in the sunchoke bed...i have an abundance of onions...very strong onions...both in growth tenacity and flavor...

the onions and the sweet clover were not intimidated by the jerusalem artichokes shading behaviors...they are still abundant in the bed...

as are the new york import strawberries...relentless in their own right...

the chinese yam that cropped up after a dormant year had a fair season, vining and producine its own areial bulbs...some have found the soil...we will see what comes up ( if anything...they seem picky about conditions ) in the spring...next up, cleaning the ramp bed.