Another Sun Choke thread

[CarolynRenee]

I just bought a small bag (1 1/2 lbs.) of sun chokes & as I was eating one of them, I thought that I should maybe save them to plant so I'll have MORE of my own next year.

What type of soil do they like? And do you use them like seed potatoes, cut off smaller pieces with eyes & just bury them?

Thanks all! (crunching on a raw one right now)

[susieM]

I just stuck em into ordinray dirt and ignored them and they gave me nice flowers, too.

[Patt]

They will thrive anywhere. The big problem is they are highly invasive. Wherever you put them they will take over and you will have them there forever.

[CarolynRenee]

Originally Posted by Patt

They will thrive anywhere. The big problem is they are highly invasive. Wherever you put them they will take over and you will have them there forever.

Well, I'm kind of happy to hear that because we have a patch of somewhat cleared land that I'd like to dump something into. Guess if worse comes to worse, and we no longer wanted them going crazy, I couldn fence the area in & let the goats go nuts & then put a couple of hogs in there to root up the rest.

Thanks for the "encouraging" warning!

[Patt]

That's what we use a lot of ours for: goats and hogs.

[taylorlambert]

I was given what I think is sun chokes, They get about 6 feet tall with several blooms like a black eye susan with out the black eye. THey bllomed this fall and have alot of tubers on the bottoms.

[7thswan]

I was just reading on another site. A man said his grandpa survive for 2 years during ww2 in Europe eating only sun chokes and somekind of wild cat.

[7thswan]

Originally Posted by taylorlambert

I was given what I think is sun chokes, They get about 6 feet tall with several blooms like a black eye susan with out the black eye. THey bllomed this fall and have alot of tubers on the bottoms.

Yup, sounds exactly what you got.

[susieM]

Originally Posted by 7thswan

Yup, sounds exactly what you got.

And once establishd, they'll be there forever.