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  • From: Allan Balliett <aballiett@frontiernet.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Jerusalem Artichokes,An Overlooked Market Crop]
  • Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 06:06:20 -0400

I have to agree with Steve. The early literature (report to the king-type stuff) expounds on the tremendous wind produced by Jerusalem Artichokes. Such is my own experience. More recently, though, I've run into people who claim to not get gas from them and to actually relish eating them.

I wanted to point out that on my farm the 'low fertility' Jerusalem Artichokes are not very productive at all but somehow at about mid-season last year some started coming up in one of our 'very static compost piles' and when I dug them up after frost I found that their tubers were large and complex and there was literally a bushel of them per plant. My opinion now is that they will live without high fertility but they will markedly return what you put into them. This year, with most of those harvested planted out and well composted, I expect a pretty big crop, of flowers, if nothing else!

-Allan Balliett
Shepherdstown, WV




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