Rainbow Roses, Dish Garden Care, and Jerusalem Artichokes
In this podcast C.L. and Ellen discuss the “rainbow rose scam,” how to handle the plants in a dish garden, growing and eating Jerusalem artichokes, and smaller sunflowers for the garden.
:28 True or False? You Can Grow Rainbow Roses From Seed
4:49 Plant Noob: What to do with a dish garden long term
8:19 Eat/Drink/Grow: Jerusalem artichokes – Helianthus tuberosus, aka sunchokes.
17:10 Love Letters and Questions: Sandy asks about growing dwarf sunflowers
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Sunchoke flowers are tall but never need staking.
Here are the tubers harvested from sunchokes.
Take a dish garden apart and repot each plant in its own container.
I listen and love all of your episodes. I’ve leraned so much !
Also I was wondering if you still have sunchokes to share? My boyfriend is a Chef that has been dying to make a recipe & I’ve always wanted to try them !
Hi Brandi! I do indeed still have sunchokes to share and I’d be happy to send you some. All I ask is that you pay postage. Why don’t you email me at plantrama@gmail.com and we can set this up. I’m so glad you (and your boyfriend) want to try sunchokes.