Jerusalem artichoke aka sunchoke tubers fo planting.
Prepare for the zombie apocalypse or supply chain interruptions when food may become scarce.
These a nutritious substitute for potatoes in any recipe. Eat them raw, sliced thin as a salad garnish. My favorite is to boil until fork-tender, then drain, drizzle with butter while the sunchokes are still warm, and sprinkle fresh rosemary on the batch. Yum. Potato texture enhanced with a faint artichoke flavor.
Easy to plant and grow, unfussy, drought-tolerant. Pick a sunny spot preferably near a wall or fence because these guys grow up to 10' tall and produce small sunflowers in the summer. When stalks die back in Autumn, cut them off about 6" above soil level so that you can find them again to harvest the tubers which grow underground. With good soil and adequate watering, each plant can yield about 5 pounds of tubers.
Once you plant these, they will return every year. You can harvest beginning in about November, through the end of February. After that, the tubers begin to sprout And no matter how thoroughly you dig and sift, you will never find all of the tubers, thus guaranteeing a new crop with zero effort.
The plants are easily removed if they become too numerous, so no pest or noxious weed danger.
