Yvan 🔜(ish) #40c3 on Nostr: It's kinda cool to be able to just wander outside, stick a garden fork in the ground, ...

It's kinda cool to be able to just wander outside, stick a garden fork in the ground, and hoik out some dinner.

Some of these Jerusalem Artichokes (Sunchokes) will be making their way into dinner. A "wild" mushroom and caramelised fartichoke risotto.

Definitely one of our lowest maintenance crops. They have their own bed at home. Each year in early spring I sift through it and make sure only a light distribution of tubers remain (as much as possible, I'll never locate every tuber). And then we let them grow.

The only major problem with them is they grow so big and tall that they start to blow over in the wind.

Of course there's also the whole issue if the effect they can have on the gut... go cautiously I say. 😂

Sadly we're yet to actually see ours flower, which was part of the hope we had for them.

#GrowYourOwn #allotment #gardening