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It was a lovely afternoon for gardening. I did some weeding in the front yard and divided up the jeruselum artichokes. I was thinking I would just spread them out a bit and not eat much this year because I only planted a few small pieces last year, but they are really prolific - I ended up with a box full to eat! I also cut a couple of fennel bulbs which are growing really well this year.
Once you have Jerusalem artichokes, you have them for life. If there is a vegetable that NEEDS to be grown in a pot, its them and mint. Just to keep them under something resembling control. Learned my lesson on that a while back. Also, be prepared for stinky pee after eating them. They are even more notorious than asparagus for that. Yummy though. I like them steamed with garlic butter, and I don't bother peeling the very young ones. There are some very good soups made with purees of the cooked tubers.
PS the only way to get rid of them entirely is to hire a neighbour's pig to rootle up all the tubers. Which they will do very eagerly.
They are along the driveway, so the only way they can escape is into the patch of weeds that counts as lawn between my property and next door. I presume the lawn mower would keep them down if they try it.
I've only had them once before, in a soup. I plan to try roasting them tonight, and I enough to try out every possible option over time! I'll donate some to the food cupboard too, share the stinky pee around.
I’ve tried the artichokes before but they were so hard to prepared because I was trying to peel them.
They’re very delicious roasted in the oven though.
I love them, and I especially love the plant! We grew them once and my MIL hated that she couldn't just grub out the plant whenever she wanted. "Just wait until the leaves fall and the plant starts to dry out!" she was repeatedly told. No patience with the garden. I loved how tall the plant grew and it's bright flowers, made an awesome backdrop for family photos for a while.