Inge Leonora-den Ouden wrote:Hi. My Sunchokes are flowering beautifuly. Here's a photo so you can enjoy them too.
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Flora Eerschay wrote:Cécile, these are quail eggs.
We're eating the oldest hatching eggs, because the hens continue laying, and I don't need more. I just need to store them for as long as possible at the moment. Some people say that their quails have already stopped laying, but I'm still getting an egg per day from each hen.
Christopher Weeks wrote:I’ve been thinking about this issue of running short on time. I normally wait for the stalks to start drying down before I do any harvesting. But that doesn’t leave very much time before the ground freezes. So I just went out and scooped up six or 8 inches of sand underneath four stalks that were only 2 to 3 feet tall just right on the edge of my patch. I still got a reasonable handful of tubers for almost no work.
Flora Eerschay wrote:Three hatching eggs which have spent a week in the portable cooler were cooked with two eggs that went straight to a normal fridge (these were 2 days old), and they all looked and tasted the same.
At the moment there are approximately 20-24 hatching eggs in the cooler, and if hens continue laying, I can keep replacing the oldest eggs and they will be not older than a week. So if the hens stop laying, the hatching eggs can be stored for 10 days and the oldest will be 17 days old. Or they will ruin my math by being inconsistent ;)
Anyway, we had guests so I made a fancy dish with sheep ricotta, garden herbs and flowers!
Timothy Norton wrote:We are starting to approach the end of my gardening season and it is about time that I hand my enclosed garden space over to the hens.
I'm starting to get some weeds popping up in my woodchip pathways, this indicates to me that we may have some rich compost built up that will need harvesting. I will start digging up the pathways to sift and spread the material into the beds after they have been picked over. however need to get ahold of some new carbon rich material to put into the pathways.
Julie Baghaoui wrote:Can someone speak to the save vitamins part of this? I’ve always heard the opposite, and frankly it’s the reason I’ve avoided PCs for so long, is that they destroy more vitamins in the food given the higher heating point. Does it depend on the vitamin?
Christopher Weeks wrote:
Cécile Stelzer Johnson wrote:You do not mention deer pressure, and that's surprising to me because they love the young tips as much as I love asparagus, and they will keep coming night after night, snipping everything they can in the spring. That will eventually kill a patch that is not fenced, as the plant is never allowed to grow to its full stature, so it cannot grow tubers either.
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If you are a hunter, deer love sunchokes almost as much as they love apples... Just saying...
This remains a fascinating distinction to me. We have substantial deer pressure. They ruin any apple trees left small and unfenced. They eat the hell out of my brassicas, including digging up turnips after the first couple freezes. I have never once seen any sign that the deer have the slightest interest in sunchokes.