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Last year I planted a 4x20 foot bed with 50 sunchokes. We've been eating them in place of potatoes all winter. I just go out and dig up a couple plants and the soil around them and get 4-5 lbs in a few minutes. Wash the dirt away using a strainer and bring them into the kitchen.
I put them in a shopping bag with some wet paper towel, and they go into the fridge. They last a few weeks that way.
My favorite easiest way to cook them is to scrub, slice, and boil for about 20-30 minutes. Drain, toss with butter, salt, and a seasoning called Potato Slayer. It's quite a yummy dish.
If you eat sunchokes with regularity, your body gets used to them, and the "fartiness" goes away, just like with Beans.
I haven't even got through 1/2 the bed yet.
Oh, you can ferment them too, just like making sauerkraut. Then store in the jars.
I think the sunchokes are the easiest high yielding plant to grow, and the stems and leaves are very high in protein and can be fed to the animals, as well as the chokes.
I put them in a shopping bag with some wet paper towel, and they go into the fridge. They last a few weeks that way.
My favorite easiest way to cook them is to scrub, slice, and boil for about 20-30 minutes. Drain, toss with butter, salt, and a seasoning called Potato Slayer. It's quite a yummy dish.
If you eat sunchokes with regularity, your body gets used to them, and the "fartiness" goes away, just like with Beans.
I haven't even got through 1/2 the bed yet.
Oh, you can ferment them too, just like making sauerkraut. Then store in the jars.
I think the sunchokes are the easiest high yielding plant to grow, and the stems and leaves are very high in protein and can be fed to the animals, as well as the chokes.
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