Pic of the Day April 28, 2008
I harvested my
Jerusalem artichokes today.
I love growing these. They are so hardy and heavy producers.
This is the typical harvest from just one plant!
The bulbs look like ginger but are a starchy tuber
not unlike potato. Very tasty as soup or sauteed.
Not the most easily digestible tho...
Gerard's Herbal, printed in 1621, quotes the English planter John Goodyer on Jerusalem artichokes:
"which way soever they be dressed and eaten, they stir and cause a filthy loathsome stinking wind within the body, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented, and are a meat more fit for swine than men." [4]
I love growing these. They are so hardy and heavy producers.
This is the typical harvest from just one plant!
The bulbs look like ginger but are a starchy tubernot unlike potato. Very tasty as soup or sauteed.
Not the most easily digestible tho...Gerard's Herbal, printed in 1621, quotes the English planter John Goodyer on Jerusalem artichokes:
"which way soever they be dressed and eaten, they stir and cause a filthy loathsome stinking wind within the body, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented, and are a meat more fit for swine than men." [4]
posted by jroth777 @ 4/29/2008 06:52:00 am
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1 Comments:
I can almost taste the delicious Jerusalem artichoke soup you made when you were home. The plants still come up every year where you planted them.
Mom
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