I have a large chunk of my property that I was planning to just rip out (it’s all trash bermuda) and fill with native grasses but I decided to go full nuclear and build a mini sunchoke forest lol. Btw native plants unlimited has a great sale going on right now if anyone wants to join me
by ImaginaryMolasses146
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I have some sunchokes that I bought at a farmers market. I threw them in a pot and they sprouted but now I have no idea where I want to plant them.
YES!! GO MY MINIONS!!!
My sunchoke clone army does a great job beating up goutweed and thorny lettuce and shit in the back of my yard. Goldenrod, asters, and pokeweed have managed to muscle their way in to the mix too. Goldenrod is probably the easiest to grow with the chokes.
Having them be clones means they don’t seed themselves. but i think it means they don’t feed the birds as well
Also yooo native plants unlimited rocks!!
I wish you lived near me. I have a sunchoke forest that I’d gladly dig and share with you for free. I’m literally throwing them away at this point to manage the spread. Yes I know they’re edible but I have chrohn’s disease and I would quite literally spend a week on the toilet if I ate them.
Go forth, and spread chaos…
i got one plant from a friend last year and now i have eight of them. have fun!
i’m very interested to see what $280 worth of sunchokes looks like
You don’t need to buy them. Just dig one up and plant it. And off they go.
I planted some Sunchokes in an area that grows some other tall weed that very much looks like sun chokes and now idk which is which until it flowers.
I have my tubers too! Cant wait to see them grow
Thank you for posting this, we were looking for these puppies and the price is on point. Summa dese, and field garlic, and we’re good through the apocalypse.
There is a bunch of invasive Japanese honeysuckle in the park near me. Would the sun chokes help keep them in check?
I planted golden ragworts about 3 years ago. My yard is muddy with poor soil, but they’re amazingly tough and versatile. Not sure if you can eat them though.
As for sunchokes, they grow wild around my area, and I can easily get seeds from them or clone them.
where can I find this store and this great sale?
probably somewhere near the elusive sock gnomes
Bare roots (everything, not just these) totally sold out on their site now. Looks like it was a good sale since you’ve posted this lol
Is anyone in mn I can have some? Lol. We have goutweed galore
I planted 1 sunchoke last year and this year I have EASILY 75.
Before you spend over $100 online, lemme ask, do you have a wholefoods nearby? Even an hour away. They typically sell sunchoke for 5.99 a pound which is like 20+ tubers.
there’s a typo in the second sentence
sunchoke forest sounds like a fun project. curious how they’ll transform the space
i think the post forgot to show up
I planted a close helianthus divericatus (close relative to H. tuberosus) some 21 years ago in my little back yard. I spent yesterday weeding (I do not use herbicides), and many of the weeds were woodland sunflowers popping up nowhere near the original planting site. There is a mat of underground roots underlying the front and back yard that will never be fully eradicated and that interferes with other plantings. This has involved an expenditure of energy and time that is ongoing every single year and would be better spent elsewhere. H. tuberosus is similarly aggressive. Just a word to the wise.