[shaun]

the Jerusalem artichokes have flowers on so are they ready or do you wait for them to die back?.never tasted them before so i'm realy tempted to have a dig

[gobs]

I just dug one up today. Lit  after flowering, as with pots, but it's just so late they are flowering this year.

[Jake]

mine don't even look like flowering. just like 9ft tall and green with slightly browning lower leaves.

I have only 3 but one is starting to look a bit like a tree :shock:

[shaun]

same here jake mine must be 9'  i remember someone on here saying they might reach 6',just got flowers the past week or so

[WG.]

the Jerusalem artichokes have flowers on so are they ready or do you wait for them to die back?.never tasted them before so i'm realy tempted to have a dig

Patience dear boy : http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?p=89606#89606  

[gobs]

I would let them be in flower for a week or so, could also earth them up.

[Jake]

nothing looking like a flower last weekend.

I've got them far apart though and I only looked at one.

[shaun]

why would you earth them up gobs ?

[WG.]

why would you earth them up ?

Bit late for that now.  Earthing up earlier in season will cause them to put out extra roots for more nutrient-gathering & stability in wind.

[gobs]

It helps not to fall over and apparently helps to increase yields. :roll:

[WG.]

It helps not to fall over and apparently helps to increase yields.

SNAP !!

[shaun]

new one on me about extra yields ive put  posts n wire around them though to stop them getting blown about

[gobs]

It helps not to fall over and apparently helps to increase yields.

SNAP !!

What do you mean, please, they just started budding. :roll:

[WG.]

It helps not to fall over and apparently helps to increase yields.

SNAP !!

What do you mean, please, they just started budding. :roll:

Snap meaning we posted the same thing.  (Snap is a card game)

[agapanthus]

the Jerusalem artichokes have flowers on so are they ready or do you wait for them to die back?.never tasted them before so i'm realy tempted to have a dig

Just be careful after eating them Shaun.....don't follow through!!!!!