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Jerusalem artichoke

A blanket of fresh new snow

20 Apr 202217 Jan 2022 by Mike (tfb)
Table and chair under snow

The weather app was right: more snow! Fresh new snow piled high never fails to make me wonder what it must be like to see this stuff for the very first time…

On a snowed-under mid-winter day, pictures of veggies … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Weather Tags garlic, snow, Jerusalem artichoke, overwinter, Winter Leave a comment

Late season harvest

16 Apr 202225 Oct 2019 by Mike (tfb)
Late October vegetable harvest

Looking pretty good for the end of October. Classic cool-season crops include leaf lettuce, pointy cabbage, bok choi and kale. Plus, the summer-loving sweet peppers are still hanging in.… Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Harvest Tags mizuna, carrot, cabbage, lettuce, kale, Jerusalem artichoke, peppers, beet, radish, bok choi, Autumn Leave a comment

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow

3 Apr 20169 Nov 2013 by Mike (tfb)
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..… Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Market & Stand, Local food Tags Jerusalem artichoke, beet, carrot, winter market, Autumn Leave a comment

Last of the chokes

3 Dec 20093 Dec 2009 by Mike (tfb)

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′ … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Fieldwork, Harvest Tags Jerusalem artichoke, yield, digging, Autumn 6 Comments

Harvesting Jerusalem artichoke

18 Nov 20092 Oct 2009 by Mike (tfb)

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 … Read the rest

Categories People, Fieldwork, Harvest Tags Jerusalem artichoke, roots, Lynn, Jordan, Andrea M, Autumn 15 Comments

The other sunflowers…

1 Oct 20111 Sep 2009 by Mike (tfb)

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 … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Farm lab (research!), Planning, Flowers, Weather Tags Jerusalem artichoke, sunflower, experiments, Summer 19 Comments

Frozen chokes harvest

7 May 201329 Nov 2008 by Mike (tfb)

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 … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Fieldwork, Harvest Tags winter harvest, carrot, storage, snow, Jerusalem artichoke, parsnip, roots, Autumn 1 Comment
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