Ice, we inherited a row (rapidly a thicket
) of jerusalem artichokes in our
front garden when we moved in, which did usefully screen our garden from next door.
Mr Sunny thought they were sunflowers and thought they were pretty pathetic
He dug them all up and riddled the soil to try to get rid of all the funny roots ( as he called them) ----- year after year after year, after ................
six years or so later they had gone competely