Sunchokes - Half Pound
Helianthus tuberosus
Sunchokes (aka Jerusalem artichokes, earth apples, or wild sunflowers) are a sunflower species native to North America. They are cultivated for their extremely productive and delicious sweet tubers (I enjoy baking them up like sweet potatoes, with carrots and other root vegetables drizzled in olive oil, seasoned with salt and a slosh of salt). Their vanilla scented flowers bloom throughout the summer, providing vital pollinator habitat to bees and other native pollinators. This variety can produce massive rhizomes (as pictured) under ideal sunny conditions). They grow extremely fast and can grow up to 8-10 feet tall in a single growing season! The prolific biomass that they create can be used as a “chop & drop” mulch, then later used as a tinder for starting fires in the winter, once they limbs die back and dry out.
Where to plant:
They can spread vigorously via their roots rather rapidly in a sunny or part sunny location, producing pound and pounds of tubers that can be dug up at anytime throughout the year for your enjoyment.
Planting Instructions:
Sunchokes can be planted by burying individual rootlets (aka rhizomes) about two inches in the earth, 1 foot apart from one another. Make sure you to carefully choose where you plant these beauties, as they can quite literally choke out & easily outcompete adjacent species for sunlight rather quickly; if this happens no worries! Just chop & drop some of the plant & use it to mulch the adjacent plants to build happy & healthy soil!
Helianthus tuberosus
Sunchokes (aka Jerusalem artichokes, earth apples, or wild sunflowers) are a sunflower species native to North America. They are cultivated for their extremely productive and delicious sweet tubers (I enjoy baking them up like sweet potatoes, with carrots and other root vegetables drizzled in olive oil, seasoned with salt and a slosh of salt). Their vanilla scented flowers bloom throughout the summer, providing vital pollinator habitat to bees and other native pollinators. This variety can produce massive rhizomes (as pictured) under ideal sunny conditions). They grow extremely fast and can grow up to 8-10 feet tall in a single growing season! The prolific biomass that they create can be used as a “chop & drop” mulch, then later used as a tinder for starting fires in the winter, once they limbs die back and dry out.
Where to plant:
They can spread vigorously via their roots rather rapidly in a sunny or part sunny location, producing pound and pounds of tubers that can be dug up at anytime throughout the year for your enjoyment.
Planting Instructions:
Sunchokes can be planted by burying individual rootlets (aka rhizomes) about two inches in the earth, 1 foot apart from one another. Make sure you to carefully choose where you plant these beauties, as they can quite literally choke out & easily outcompete adjacent species for sunlight rather quickly; if this happens no worries! Just chop & drop some of the plant & use it to mulch the adjacent plants to build happy & healthy soil!
Helianthus tuberosus
Sunchokes (aka Jerusalem artichokes, earth apples, or wild sunflowers) are a sunflower species native to North America. They are cultivated for their extremely productive and delicious sweet tubers (I enjoy baking them up like sweet potatoes, with carrots and other root vegetables drizzled in olive oil, seasoned with salt and a slosh of salt). Their vanilla scented flowers bloom throughout the summer, providing vital pollinator habitat to bees and other native pollinators. This variety can produce massive rhizomes (as pictured) under ideal sunny conditions). They grow extremely fast and can grow up to 8-10 feet tall in a single growing season! The prolific biomass that they create can be used as a “chop & drop” mulch, then later used as a tinder for starting fires in the winter, once they limbs die back and dry out.
Where to plant:
They can spread vigorously via their roots rather rapidly in a sunny or part sunny location, producing pound and pounds of tubers that can be dug up at anytime throughout the year for your enjoyment.
Planting Instructions:
Sunchokes can be planted by burying individual rootlets (aka rhizomes) about two inches in the earth, 1 foot apart from one another. Make sure you to carefully choose where you plant these beauties, as they can quite literally choke out & easily outcompete adjacent species for sunlight rather quickly; if this happens no worries! Just chop & drop some of the plant & use it to mulch the adjacent plants to build happy & healthy soil!