Growing Jerusalem Artichokes for Pretty Flowers  ❀
Channel: zuditaka
Date: 19/06/2014

Have bought a whole batch of Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) tubers to plant here and there around the garden as attractive perennial "wild" baby sunflowers. They are very easy to grow--provided they are given water to survive in the hot dry summers where I am--so should look very pretty when in golden bloom; and there's also the bonus of the tuber root crop which makes a nice roasted vegetable. The American Indians cultivated these plants as an important food crop. Hummingbirds like the flowers, too. Here is the Wikipedia link:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke


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