It was a busy gardening day, at least most of the day. I had to make a cheesecake for my brother in-law’s birthday so I did that early in the morning, then my sister skyped me and asked me all kinds of questions about herbs, which took me a while to answer.
Finally at 11 am, I was ready to put on my boots, strap on my knee pads, put on my gloves, and get to it.
I dug up most of my Jerusalem artichokes today and plan to store them. Tomorrow I’ll put half of them in a big tub of sand and keep them in the cellar, and the other half go into gallon bags with paper towels in them, and stored in the fridge. I’ve read that both methods work but we’ll see which one will work the best and keeps them fresh the longest.
It’s a lot of work to make sure you get all the tubers out, but if I want a fairly neat row again this year and enough space so I’ll get nice big tubers, it’s worth the effort. And it’s fun too, I think, it’s just amazing how many you will find!
I decided to plant a row of tubers along the west side of my garden as well because it’s always very windy. So I hope one row is enough to function as a windbreaker.
I also spotted these little Daylily shoots today:
