The great big thread of sunchoke info - growing, storing, eating/recipes, science facts

I've been very happy with how easy and productive the sunchokes have been but I was surprised to be shown just how vigorous they are.
Last fall, I dug out the ckokes from my GAMCOD plot. Then scrubbed and sorted them before weighing it all.
There were a few little chunks that had been cut or broken from the digging or in ground vole damage.
I just tossed them on the grass, along with the washed off dirt.
Just the other day, I noticed a few small sprouts in that bit of lawn. They are a pretty easily recognizable plant so I dug them out and they still had the tiny scraps of tubers attached!
Ive potted them up, labeled them and put out at our local post office.  ( they have a donated plant starts spot that converts to a free produce section later in the season)

The vole reframing from Michael made me laugh — genuinely useful way to look at it. Mine spread into an adjacent bed the same way and now I've just accepted they live where they want to live.