Originally Posted by
TN Lone Wolf
I may have to try that Jerusalem Artichoke. Thanks for the idea, MudderChuck.
Also, I wholeheartedly agree with creating some cover for the deer to hide in.
I was looking at the prices, which are kind of out there. $10 a pound is a joke.
Best bet would be to advertise in the paper and offer to dig your own in the fall. Or spot a plot and ask to dig your own in the fall.
With a pitchfork you get maybe half the tuber bundles and is actually beneficial to the next years growth, thinning helps them.
If I turn over a 30X30 foot plot (or even half that) I get a large Potato sack full of tubers and the next spring the harvested plot grows right back from the tubers you miss.
They say you can grow them from seed, my experience is seed is iffy.
A CO-OP feed and seed may be able to order you a fifty pound bag of tubers at a reasonable price.
I grow the red (tuber) variety. The leaves may get white mold if they stay too wet. White mold spray is cheap. Occasional cases of white mold is the only issue I've ever had with my plots, even the mold won't seriously hurt them. Other than the wildlife eating them down to the ground, I've never had any real issues.