If you grow one crop, this should be it: Jerusalem Artichokes. 

A potato-like staple crop that grows almost as a weed... Why is this not being propagated around the world en masse? Something like this could go a long way to solving world hunger overnight! It's insane this isn't more commonly grown. Thanks for putting out this vid, this is good info! 👍🏻👍🏻

There are millions of Jerusalem Artichokes growing close to my house. They border a huge forest that goes for miles. I just dug up a hundred or so tubers and am going to replant them all along my back fence. I like how invasive they are. That means little effort on my part to grow them. I have an acre of field behind my house and i hope they fill in like crazy.

Thank you for this. I once read that the man who grows Jerusalem artichokes will never starve. I was able to buy some at the farmer's market on Saturday, and my daughter came out and helped me plant them today!

Keith, I’ve been growing JAs since 1987 and never saw them as large & healthy as yours. I have a new appreciation for them now that I know their true value. Today dug only 3 plants out of many & got about 8 gallons of chokes. Also my soil was teaming with life! Thank you!😊

Thank you!! I planted sunchokes for the first time this year. My husband thinks I am nuts. But then saw this video and realized what I had done a good thing. Horseradish and leeks are on my radar to add to the list. Sustainability crops is the goal. We live about 14 miles from the nearest city. So running to the store is a 30 minute trip just to get there. Western most county in New York state. I hate to ramble but the videos you make are awesome. My cubscout soon to be a boy scout did a project as a badge. He went to our neighbor who owns a couple of acres surrounding our property. He asked if it would be okay to plant a small vegetable garden. The first year we tried sprawlers. Pumpkins, watermelons, and cucumbers just to start. Due to the wildlife we lost just about everything other than 4 or 5 pumpkins. Next try this year we went with sunchokes due to the wildlife. No I did not plan for the rabbits and deer eating the tops of the plants. So I never got my sunflowers to give to the property owner BUT wildlife win there. I look forward to showing him the yield and making him some to eat. I also know that a VERY opinionated neighbor who said that one crop isn't a garden can eat her words. Thank you for what you do. By making this video you helped one of the small villages in NY state.

I’m loling, I grow Jerusalem Artichokes next to my mull berry trees and goji berry bushes as well! I like grating JA’s and eating them raw on salad, or make soup with them.. JA’s and celery root puréed soup is a holiday tradition for me. Everyone loves it. I am told they make an excellent flour but I haven’t tried yet .. I have always told people if there’s only one plant you can grow it should be Jerusalem Artichokes !

Love, love, love what you do. I just planted a few Jerusalem artichokes for next year in my (tiny) front yard. I am trying to convert as much of my small patch into a food forest. I live in Montreal and my plot is maybe 60' by 30' but I plan to cover it in food generating perennial plantings, from raspberries, strawberries and ground cherries to Jerusalem artichokes and a few fruit trees. Keep your great videos coming, you're a great teacher and a solid inspiration :)

I just bought some jarusalem artichokes for the field next to my house. I'm turning the regional land into a food forest and next year adding a Jerusalem artichoke patch. Excited to make a food forest next to my rental and the deer will love the JA. Putting some walking onions in there and a bunch of wild garlic I collected. Thanks for the inspiration.

Sand mixed with sawdust....works very well and it won't rot....for storage.

Oh the things I'm learning from you. I had no idea this plant existed. Not only will it give me perennial food year-after-year, but it will also have pretty tall flowers to look at too. I got really hungry watching you pull up these tubers and will try and track down and plant as soon as possible. Thank you for your educational videos - the channel I watch the most! I am learning a lot from you - especially about just getting those trees in the ground. When I have food to eat and share and know I'm making a difference in amending my little back yard garden as God intended - it will be because of you. I really can't thank you enough.

I thought sunchokes were a central north america native? Yes, they are. I've been growing them for years, bought 5 lbs of stampede variety five years ago, harvest 20 -40 lbs a year now. I eat them out of hand with just the dirt brushed off after the soil has frozen. Never had a problem with gas.

So glad I watched this to the end! I learned SO much. I bought 3 different varieties of Jerusalem Artichokes and I wasn't sure how or where to plant them. I live in New Brunswick along the coast, zone 4/5 and we have lots of deer and bedrock. I am going to find a spot and do the cardboard, compost and peat-moss with some leaves. I am new here from Ontario so the deer and bedrock are a bit of a challenge.We have 5 acres with waterfront waters leading to the Bay of Fundy and a lot of forest. This year we are building a greenhouse and starting a food forest . I have rooted elderberry cuttings and started a few plum trees from the pits.

Banana for scale 😂. Thanks for the vid. I’ve really jumped deep into your content since finding you a couple months ago. I really appreciate your perspective and practical explanations. I’m starting a forest of my own.

I boiled them first and made home fries. Delicious and no problem with gas.

Damn, I didn't know James Franco was so into gardening. Super interesting, I ended up watching the entire thing!

Hi from West Wales! I’m only in my 2nd year as a ‘dude growing some food’ and I’m amazed at what I’ve achieved so far, and what potential there is! Ive hit a place set aside for JAs and will be planting my first (and hopefully forever) crop very soon, and this is the best video I’ve seen about JAs so far! Thank you very much - diolch yn fawr!!

Thank you! I especially appreciate you showing how you store them after harvesting. I'm going to do this! 😎👍🏻🌻

Oh yes, I definitely picked something up from this video. I need to grow Jerualem artichokes, and that if I prune back my terribly overgrown apple tree with little tiny apples, I may get bigger, sweeter apples. Thanks!

Love your content! Im zone 5-hard to find good videos on cooler climate permaculture

They're kind of like quack grass you can eat.... Love it.

I put some of these in a raised bed with lavendar and other herbs, they choked everything else out, then I added some yarrow to that bed and the yarrow choked out the JA. I obviously don't tend my beds good enough. :D

I recently learned that Jerusalem artichokes is also good as a juglone tolerant crop if you have black walnut, pecan etc trees and want to grow other crops sensitive to juglone, you can plant these in between apparently. Iwas worried about invasiveness so I’m happy to know they can be mown back to control… thank you, love your videos!

I have grave misgivings about planting sunchokes, just because of their invasiveness alone. I have experience, lol. But they are a great food source, indeed!

I have two huge patches of Jerusalem artichokes. I have to move my crosnes because they are in the same area, and being shaded. Interesting to note in regards to Mulberry, I have multiple baby mulberries planted in with my rugosa roses. The rugosas (8-10ft)shield them all winter, and I just trim the roses back in spring to let the trees put on growth, then the roses grow up and protect their tender wood in the winter.

I read about these a few years ago, but just ordered some for this growing season. Im so excited!

Just got my first sunchoke plant but decided since we are selling this house to put it in a lowes bucket

I live down south I love the Jerusalem sunchokes I always wait until the Green Top has died back before I eat any and I never have the gas problem I love your Channel

Watching with longing, from 🥶the interlake of Manitoba. (Zone 2) so jealous. Wish I could grow peaches and heart nuts. 👍👍👍

Our butternut squash was stored in our basement with newspaper between each and we ate the last of it in June this year!! I was so happy with the great flavor of the stored squash! Looks like you have lots! I didn’t know it could be stored out in the garage too. I’m in northeast Ohio zone 6 so our winters aren’t quite as hard as yours 😅

Jerusalem stalks are great fire starter

You keep me inspired with your food forest to keep going with mine. I have Jerusalem artichoke seed growing and am excited to see how they grow.

Got an order arriving in the mail. I can’t wait to plant some. Thank you for the time and effort to do an excellent video on the topic!

Thank you! I just got some today and put them in a pot as I don't want to commit to a forever spot yet. This video was very informative!

You've given a gift to all humankind. it is now late January of 2022 and we might not survive without this knowledge of permaculture, no-till organic farming and nutrition. I ordered several pounds of Sunchokes to plant in my composted beds within the chicken-run areas.

Pickled? Fantastic!

Oh boy! I never understood Jerusalem artichokes. There are so many deer around. They’ll love them.; plus I get to eat them too. I’m so excited.

Gracias por el vídeo!!

Brilliant information. Thank you. 👏

I just bought one plant yesterday and I’m so excited to grow this! It’s been on my list for ages

thanks for sharing, im on it!

Great job!

Wow! Great information. 👍👍

Wonderful.

Lots of info here. Thank you for sharing.

I stayed around for the full video and picked up a lot. Thanks! You are doing it. This has been helpful in my permaculture design.

Thanks for sharing storage details too!!!

If for some reason you don't want to have them forever in your garden, Jerusalem Artichokes can also grow great in containers! Makes harvest somewhat easier at the end of the year, too.

Such an inspirational video!

Lovely video! Ty! I only have a small raised bed but planted these last year and love them! Can't wait to see the harvest this year. They are already 10 times bigger! I can't think of a better way to use even a small space than delicious food thats so easy to grow!

Loved it! Thank You! I’m trying Jerusalem Artichokes for the first time! Thank You for all the great info and examples!

Like your work. I live in Texas. Wish I could visit you for a day or two. Keep it up.

Thank you so much for sharing! We are inspired to grow more.

mine are starting to come up! yay, and I am finding them in places that I forgot I had planted them too.

Thanks so much

What an inspirational video. I love your natural approach and the lack of formality. I planted a bunch of artichokes last Autumn and now it's March, so I hope to see some action soon. Thank you for a great watch.

wow it is so prolific! thanks for sharing, I am gonna add it to my collection of tuber plants,, I love all tubers and root crops.

very nice!!!

Green pumpkins make a wonderful "apple" pie!

When I was little, like 2yrs old, my parents used to grow them whole bunch and let the pigs go through. Pigs go nuts on them. Where I came from we call them "Pig Potatoes" Last fall, I made some pickles out of these sunchokes. They are great but you can only eat so much😅

I just planted Jerusalem artichokes this last weekend. I am excited to see what happens!

thank you for explaining how to cook grow these im boiling some now and will make chips out of them

Im growing these as well. Theyre my #1 favortie crip as well... although i will say theyre a favorite for the voles as well. Little suckers are like heat seeking missiles for JAs.. they use mole tunnels to eat them from below. I had to make raised beds and pour large gravel onto the bottom before filling with soil. This prevents rodents from digging into the beds from below. Seems to work great

Planted some yesterday then this video gets suggested. Phone is watching 👀😂 Some great information. I hope you're right about them. 👍🍻

Cheers mate brilliant well explained thanks from Australia

Great video, you're a excellent teacher!

Blessed

I'd love to see how to prepare them including getting all of that soil removed. We had 3 huge plants this year, our first year!

Nice video of info and identifying failures - sometimes those are hard to recognize as a newbie. Thanks :)

I've noted another use for the huge stocks (grind for compost or chop n drop) is cut in sticks, dry & use as fire starters (sunflowers & cornstalks work too).😊

long videos are great and you are a wizard with respecting and working with nature, and creative too

I'd never heard of these, they sound great! Thanks for the info!

Hello Bud, from California. I just found your channel through my gardener Mom. I’m very much enjoying your knowledge. Thank you very much for your long videos. I watched to the end.

In the past, I have grown sunchokes in a semi-industrial scale for a few years, and still growing some in containers in my garden. I already watched a lot of videos about sunchokes, and I think your video is the only one, that really shows the capabilities of this plant; how much it can yield. 10 punds is a hell lot of sunshokes, from one plant! Congratulation. I see how rich and deep your soil, and, of course, also the climate matters, when we look at the yiled. Half of that is a very good result in my climate, in the normal hard calysoil we have, if I don't do anything with it, just plant the tubers and just let them grow as they can. One of the biggest difficulties in growing sunchoke is the poor storability of the picked tubers. It can only be stored in a cool place, in a special prism, or embedded in sand (or soil) with certain risks. Therefore, the collection of sunchoke for winter storage is not justified and should only take place in the presence of other restrictive circumstances. Also the picked tubers frost resistant only up to -4, -5 Celsius, while the tubers left outside in the ground, can resist frost up to -25 Celsius! Therefore the best way to store sunchokes during the winter, is to leave them in the garden in the ground! You should only dig up just the amount that you will eat, use, or sell. Also the most important thing, when you grow sunchoke, is that (depends on the variety you grow) the above-average sensitivity of the tubers to white mold, (especially when treating perennial stocks), which should be offset by rigorous selection! Do that same rigorous selection if you want to harvest large tubers. Always plant just the biggest ones every year, because, if you leave them in place and wont replant them every year, they tend to get smaller and smaller every year, and just spreads. Yes, you have to dig up as much, even the smallest tubers and larger roots, that can grow to a new plant. Lot of work, but you can have much better yield. Just think about it; you have nothing to do with the sunchoke in the growing season, so it isn't that much more work. My advise is about growning sunchoke, is that you guys really need to find a better variety! In every single video that I watched, are shows about the same variety which looks like the wild sunchoke. Those elongated sideroots, the relatively small and very "bumpy" tubers indicate this. I grow a variety that is refined for industrial farming, and that have much bigger, smooth and round tubers; they more looks like potatoes, without long sideroots. This one won't spread all around in the garden via those long side-roots, as the wild sunchoke. Of course, only if you replant them the way as I mentioned before. I harvested today one plant, take a look: keptarhely.eu/images/2021/01/08/v02/20210108v02umwilx.png

you explained so call no dig better than anyone. What they mean is no till, low dig. I always have to dig out perennial weeds & grasses, & wonder how these no dig people worked the perennial weeds with out chasing the root, cause like Jerusalem Artichoke you have to get every one or they come back. I can harvest with low dig & I wish the catch phrase was the truth & not what some wanted it to be. I wonder how my wine cap mushrooms will feel about the disturbance? Good video.

Another great video. I posted your link on a prepper forum I belong to. Every prepper should plant Jerusalem Artichokes.

I will try this as soon the winter is over. Its now end of Jan. Stockholm area Sweden. Sorry to say the soil is former sea bottom, clay. Especially your idea to make a fence towards the road is perfect.

Thanks, great video. I definitely enjoy your food forest. A personal aspiration of mine.

Southern Alberta my tubers are not that large. I'm hoping next year fall will be larger.🇨🇦. Yes, many volunteer during the years 😵

I miss my sunchokes bed.. it was work to remove the tops but still fun.. and grew fast

sometimes I like looking at traditional gardening videos and seeing if I can glean a little more info about specific crops and I just watched one on jerusalem artichokes where a guy had them all spaced out in a traditional raised bed with a bunch of fertilizers and stuff. He pulls them out of the ground and I was shocked to see how little it yielded as the only video I'd seen of a harvest of them was this one by you. Yet another W for permaculture

Great info! I had no idea Jerusalem Artichoke tasted like potato. I definitely need this edible in my gardening venture👍🏻

I never heard of this plant . Your video is very helpful

Just weeded my area of them today

My tubers arrived today and so I planted my first roots. This is mid-July.

Thanks for the info, I had heard of them but didn't know what they looked like or what they tasted like. I don't like artichokes so never looked any further. I will now.

Thanks for the videos. I'm finding them interesting and inspiring. I'm about to go to the old field at the back of our property to pick some sunchokes and watched this first. I'm planning on bringing some home for the family and setting aside some to plant here and there in wilder places. I'm hoping a few establish and I learn more about what spots they like. My grandma makes pickles out of them which maintain excellent crunch and have good flavor and storage characteristics. Sun choke pickles come highly recommended by me.

I biked 20 km to a farm to pick up a small plant of Jerusalem Artichokes (after watching this video). A month later after quite a bit of babying squirrels dug up the last morsel of tuber. There is one 1 cm sprout left, but my goodness...damn squirrels and their digging! Will try again with more protection next year!

I always let the tops die and dry, like potato tops. All the nutrients migrate down to the tubers making them bigger and tastier. With mine, and I've got three varieties, I've never noticed any difference whether cutting the flowers off made the tubers bigger or better and I've cut the flowers off of whole sections of my patches for making wine.

Love all the great information. I am just beginning to create a permaculture garden in my large backyard. At age 78 sounds much easier than planting annual gardens. I watch many you tube features about this type of gardening, and find yours the best for me. Would the jerusalem artichoke be ok near a creek?

hi there from new jersey stopped vidio at 7.14 time to order my Jerusalem Artichokes '

The first time i grew these was a bumper harvest. Then i cooked them like a potato. Oh yuck the taste was so awful. Just had a smaller crop and baked them. Wow what a difference amazing. Cant wait till next spring.

You can also cure your JA by putting them next to a sunny window or setting them in a greenhouse or something of that nature for about a week to break down the inulin

You have a solarpunk vibe that I really appreciate. Easy and native food security like sunchokes should serve as a baseline for any community!

If you grow multiple varieties you can produce seed from the flowers. I grow 6 varieties in zone 9b, California, and generally get 6-10 seeds per flower after the finches have their way with the seeds. some flowers won't produce any due to incompatible pollen so grow as many varieties as possible to increase seed production and create your own hybrids.

The Jerusalem artichokes I have taste like a milder version of an artichoke heart, in potato form.

If you pressure cook them ( I recommend a Magefesa brand) they are smooth as vegan butter. I find just booking them they maintain a crunchiness that is not at all the same as potatoes and you get the farts something fierce.

I'm sold. Now I just have to find a sane place to grow them.

I received one JA from a plant swap last spring. I was going to wait and let them spread more before I dug them but a few minutes into your video, I hit pause and went out and dug mine up. I roasted most of the tubers and will replant the rest. I just had them for lunch while watching the rest of the video. These are so good!

Is it too late (June 5, zone 7) for me to plant jerusalem artichokes?! I've got to get some. Oh wait, lol, reading more of the comments and I found my (your) answer. (It's not too late. Get some and plant them asap.) What a food source!! I'm so excited to plant these.

LOVE these things. Discovered them in a food box. This year(2020) was our first crop. Thanks for all the info. and tips. :) Happy planting.