The Easiest Vegetable That Anyone Can Grow!

Today's video shares what I think is the most straightforward and productive vegetable anyone can grow in zones 3-9! I share why exactly this crop is just so easy, how it is grown (even how to grow in a pot), harvesting tips, storage tips, and show how much you can expect to harvest per plant.

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[dennishuff]

The 2-1/2 year, Lewis and Clark Expedition, up the Missouri River, avoided winter starvation because Sacagawea (the Indian girl who went with them) planted sunchokes when they stopped along the way. They harvested them on the way back. Remnants of these plantings can still be seen after over 200 years.

[Darkice]

I planted thousands of these in the forest behind my house along with hundreds of fruit nut and berry trees/bushes. Its a great emergency food source.

[kahae]

If you slice, dehydrate and then grind them, they make a wonderful flour. Mixed with say wheat flour or buckwheat they make a really addictive bread with a very distinctive slightly burnt caramel flavour. Or you can grate them into the flour mix. I find freezing them seems to make them more easily digestible. So does fermenting them. I ferment them with chopped cabbage/beetroot/carrot. They're an amazing survival food. They also have a lot of inulin in them which is a prebiotic. After I have chopped the stalks I put the stems and leaves through a chipper and make mulch. A truly amazing plant.

[carolinepitts]

I have been working with this since 1980 when I was a nursing OB women who needed more iron! Sunchokes are high in iron but low calorie. I've been growing, sharing, and lecturing about them since 2005. I have carried the message of them to all my gardening froends.
BTW, the leaves are edible. Small leaves can be eaten raw in salads or cooked like spi, ach. Larger can be dried and ground to add to smoothies as part of a superfood mix.

[alessandrapagliarani]

A very well done and exaustive video on this underrated vegetable. Here in Italy we call it Topinanbour (my grand son : topinhamburger 😄). We bought some a few years ago and planted them in our very hard soil, where they grow ok, but these last two summers the leaves dried prematurely - yes, I know, I should have watered them.
Nobody has said that in taste they are a bit similar to artichokes, but I find that they are.
Our favourite way to eat Topinanbour : We steam them (in the pressure cooker), cut in thickish slices, then we add a little butter, cover them with white sauce + grated Parmigiano and put in the oven until the cheese forms a golden crust.
A nice day to all.

[debk]

I love growing Jerusalem Artichokes for so many reasons but I discovered I can save and dry the thick main stem of the plant after harvesting and use them as garden stakes! I'm not sure how long they will last but I've had mine for over a year and they are still fine. My garden is covered in snow now but the ones I used to stake my 9 star broccoli are still holding up just fine! Pretty cool!

[kitthazelton]

Here in Vermont (USA) - zone 5a - I grow them as a perennial vegetable. No matter how thoroughly I think I've harvested, I never get them all, and they grow back every year. They're very versatile to cook with, and the pollinators love the flowers.

[NextdoorHomestead]

The way you visualized output per square meter was simply terrific. I walked into this video with precisely zero interest in growing sunchokes.... and now I'm scheming how to fit them in this year!

[BarbaraMcpherson]

I've been fermenting these tubers for several years now ( sliced wi brine, turmeric ginger). Orher ways to introduce into diet - grate them into coleslaw, or just add thin slices to salad.
Clumps of these hardy plants withstand our summer heatwaves and then flowers are bee magnets.
An amazing pre-biotic to feed our micro biomes - so much to love about this planr

[MicDubTV]

Hey Huw! I'm a Twitch streamer (livestreamer, if you're unfamiliar) & found your channel a couple of years ago when I was live with my community! We'd found some gardening videos & suddenly came across your channel. I can't remember what was in the video, but I noticed that you seemed like a really nice guy who was very passionate about your gardening. So, I went back to your first few videos & we watched them. I subscribed to your channel back then & continue to get notifications even though I'm not much of a gardener myself (at least not yet).

I just wanted to say that, even though I've never met you or anything, I feel incredibly proud to see the growth of your channel. How you started from a young guy who was just sharing his love/hobby with folks to *still* doing that, but making a career out of it. I find it incredibly admirable & I wish you all of the success in the world! I was privileged enough to turn my hobby into my job as well & I want you to know that you're an inspiration to a lot of people. Even to those who aren't focused on gardening. Keep doing what you do. You're a positive light in this world & you bring joy to thousands & thousands of people!

Hopefully it isn't weird of me to say all of this, but it's nice to see another guy around my age building a living & a community based around things that they're passionate about. Much love from Oklahoma, USA & maybe one of these days, I can get ya to hop on my podcast (when it comes back from hiatus 😆)! God bless!

[katrin]

Just had a soup with veg from my little garden - mini leek, cut celery, carrot, potato, perpetual spinach, parsley and some Jerusalem artichokes! Delicious with some cumin added. I was amazed by the lovely tubers I grew for the first time in pots last summer. So nice to be able to dig up something crispy!

[trilliarobinson]

If you happen to have a few sheep on your plot, they adore these as an addition to their winter diet ! Crispy, sweet and lots of starch. Ours went wild when they saw me approaching the artichoke patch.

[PAULBoscher]

They are an amazing vegetable and make a superb soup. Roughly chop up 3 onions and fry them in a large pan with a glug of olive oil. Scrub 2 kilos of Jerusalem artichokes (Don't peel) cut them up small, simmer for half an hour and whizz. You've got soup for a week.

[sweaterdoll]

I am a better forager than gardener. I live in the US with ridiculously brutal winters and ridiculously brutal summers. Sunchokes and stinging nettles are my go-tos for growing food in my yard. My first year plants grew even when I couldn't get water to them in the brutal heat of summer (back problems). Then they survived chrysanthemum lacewing bugs although I did try to fight them off. I replant many and harvest others as needed over winter but also slice and dehydrate many by the wood stove. I add them to other dehydrated foods in stews and soups.

[a.jlondon]

I had never heard of them and then read they are one of the few vegetables with origins in Canada 🇨🇦. Cheers from Toronto.

[dudeusmaximus]

Raised them for many years, in excellent soil they get huge and prolific. Two plants gave me all I wanted.

[nancyhjort]

I used my mandolin to thinly slice the tubers, used a light coating of diluted lemon juice to prevent discoloration, seasoned them, and put them on a roasting pan at 170 degrees F until crisp. They make a delicious, nutritious chips. They contain inulin and are great for diabetics.

[mrdovie]

I used to grind them in a meat grinder which yields pulp and juice. I mixed the pulp with ground beef to make a very nice meatloaf. My mother said she would not be afraid to serve it to guests.

[lejo]

Here in Oslo, Norway, they can stay in the frozen ground until it thaws in april. It sweetens them and I hear it also transforms the inulin, which gives rise to their nickname fartichoches, but also makes them no risk for diabetics.
In addition, they do the soil wonders! No dig or no; I have never seen so many worms, as when I harvested them from my heavy clay soil! Lastly, the amount of compostable material they produce is a blessing.

[Thomy-xouw]

I once got a tuber from this plant as a gift and i planted it, and just from one plant i got a whole bucket of tubers, despite the fact, that here, in europe, there was a terrible drought and there was almost no rain. I'm also gonna plant it this year!!!