STORING THE SUNCHOKES FOR WINTER
We've harvested, and now it's time to store them!
After finally growing some Sunchokes (AKA Jerusalem Artichokes) for the first time ever, we had to store our harvest.
I chose to filly up five gallon buckets with soil and layer our harvest in between soil layers. Then, I stored the buckets beneath our mobile home. I am hoping that this sort of "natural refrigerator" will be just what they need to make it through the winter, or at least to keep until we eat them.
"STORING THE SUNCHOKES FOR WINTER" VIDEO
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-stored-sunchokes
Until next time…
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Should be good.
We hope so! Glad to hear you think so too... unlike my carrot planting experiment... LOL
I just call it as I see it. I did provide a solution.😁
such an awesome post 😊😊 they must taste so good, keep doing great work and enjoy your day! GREETINGS TO YOU! also the little girl is such a cute helper hha
Thank you! That little girl is one of our many helpers!
Should work great as long as animals don't find a way to get them. :-)
I think they should be safe from the animals. Thanks!
You're a busy guy. I think they'll be fine in there. I enjoyed watching your lil' helpers :) cute vid.
Yeah, them helpers are always helping.
I was just thinking of digging mine up tomorrow.. I might have waited to long, but I've had a big ole layer of hay on top of mine... keep ya posted, I think that is just perfect how you stored them unless you get like 20 below or something....
Cool! I think yours will be still be good under there. Keep us posted!
oh yeah, and sawdust or dried cedar chips are good for storing spuds and sunchokes too :)
I think you can even make a makeshift root cellar with a buried bucket with a couple straw bales on top. But under a trailer house is a good idea too. I remember them always being cool underneath, even in Texas summers. Cool microclimates where we used to chase the biggest toads ever.
Biggest toads?
Yeah, bout like that!
Those were the days. Man, we'd be out 18 hours a day in the sun and mud. Every trailer we could climb under without getting shot was our clubhouse 😂
Yeah I bet those will store just fine in there!
Also...sorry man I just can't help myself. You said "I chose to filly up five" and then I thought, hum I have not had a Philly cheese steak sandwich in while now!
We tried several storage methods and found cheap pitting mix to be the best
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Good storage method, I keep mine in the ground overwinter and they're sweeter harvested in the spring.