Wow that's great. I'm hoping to get myself some sunchokes at some point this year. I'm told they can be planted in the autumn, so I may plan on it.

I was given a 'Jerusalem' cookbook from Anthropologie that has an out of this world recipe using Jerusalem Artichoke and was purchasing from a local Natural Grocers to complete the recipe. I decided to plant one left over from the fridge last spring and you should see the patch I have now!!! I knew they were spreaders so I planted in a bed on it's own and have so many that I now have to catch them before they spill into the garden but it's wonderful to have such a happy crop that bloom almost like sunflowers.

That's wonderful, Suzen! You won't be sorry. One year, I had mine in a bed along the fence between us and some rather nosey neighbors (when we lived in town). It was so nice, once they grew tall and full of flowers, we could sit on the patio in our jammies and drink our coffee at the same time the neighbors sat at theirs, and they couldn't see into our yard. Your little sunflowers will make seed, and if you can keep the wrens and sparrows from eating them all, you can plant them next year to increase your crop. But good luck on THAT ;~) . They will multiply under the ground and you might think it looks like they're not, but wait till about April to dig and there will be a lot of them. --ilene PS Hey, how about sharing that Out Of This World recipe?

Oh yes, I was shocked to dig up the mounds of sun chokes... they multiplied like crazy and I have to say, they were super crisp! I would LOVE to share this recipe to a fellow sun-choke lover. I think it goes super well with basmati rice. I was able to find the pink peppercorns in bulk at a great food co-op and I feel they do make a difference so hope you can find them too...https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/roasted-chicken-jerusalem-artichoke-and-lemon. Let me know if you also grow swiss chard and Ill share a great recipe and the zucchini burgers in this book are a real crowd pleaser ;)

I do not grow Swiss chard but I think Jacob does and I bet he'd be interested in the recipe. I am growing beets and I do plan to use some of the beet greens for something. Maybe beet greens could substitute? Oh, and I do love basmati rice. I think I can find the peppercorns at the Whole Foods in Tulsa. Sometimes I have to order stuff I can't find locally from Amazon.

That recipe you linked does sound good and the picture says it all, doesn't it? When I had enough chokes to be able to use some to cook with, I made cashew chicken and used chokes, peeled and sliced, instead of the water chestnut. I actually preferred them in the dish as the water chestnut tastes rather.... well.... watery to me.

My choke babies are still alive and in their pot, I noticed the other day there are a couple more plants up, out where I rescued the others, so I will go dig those up, too. Maybe I will have a nice crop by next spring.

We have had a nice big rainfall and thankfully no violence with it, as other places have had. I'm grateful for the moisture as we seem to be going into our drought season early this year. I had a cabbage split, and brought that in, along with the last few peas before I tore out the vines. There'll be zucchini big enough to pick soon. So yeah, how 'bout that zucchini burger recipe, been searching on the internet for some different ways to use them. --ilene

We are in NE Oklahoma so our weather is more like SE Kansas than it is further down in the middle and southern part of our state. We have been fortunate that many of the storms go around us, but the dark side of that is that we don't get the rain, then, either. Tulsa is about 50 miles south of us.

Thank you so much for the links. --ilene