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Jerusalem artichoke

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow

Sun, Apr 03, 2016Sat, Nov 09, 2013
Fall harvest: carrots, beets, Jerusalem artichoke

Beets, carrots, sunchokes: 8 am, second Saturday of the indoor winter market, freezing rain and flurries outside, it’s cool to be under cover..

Categories Local food, Market & Stand, Veggies

Last of the chokes

Thu, Dec 03, 2009Thu, Dec 03, 2009

Digging up the very last of the Jerusalem artichoke, this is pretty much the final harvest of the year, besides a little kale and maybe a last few tiny cauliflower and cabbage. The few remaining feet of the original 50′ …

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Categories Fieldwork, Harvest, Veggies

Harvesting Jerusalem artichoke

Wed, Nov 18, 2009Fri, Oct 02, 2009

For tomorrow’s farmers’ market, Lynn, Andie and Jordan harvested more of this year’s Jerusalem artichoke. The tubers have gotten noticeably bigger since pulling some just a couple of weeks ago… Chokes are a really simple, satisfying harvest, at least, when …

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Categories Fieldwork, Harvest, People

The other sunflowers…

Sat, Oct 01, 2011Tue, Sep 01, 2009

There are pretty ornamental cutting sunflowers, and then there are these monsters of the field, towering Early Russians, and their almost as imposing kin, the rugged Jerusalem artichoke (last photo). They’re the genus Helianthus, North American natives, supposedly dating back …

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Categories Farm lab (research!), Flowers, Planning, Veggies, Weather

Frozen chokes harvest

Tue, May 07, 2013Sat, Nov 29, 2008

Despite the six inches (15cm) of snow on the big garden, fieldwork goes on. Today, I harvested about 30lbs (13.5kg) of Jerusalem artichoke out of the partially frozen ground, just to be sure planting stock is around over winter in …

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Categories Fieldwork, Harvest, Veggies
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