Five inches of white stuff and temps in the 20s — who can bear to sit at a laptop all day with such excitement afoot outside? So earlier I bundled up and walked over to the pea patch, where there’s nothing to do except convince yourself that snow has insulating properties. That, and to dig up a few pounds of buried sunchokes, but more on that later. Right now I’m headed back out into the cold.
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December 22, 2008 at 11:03 pm
molly b jackson
audrey, wondered whose tracks those were in the snow at the p-patch. they are almost completely covered after yesterday’s repeat dumping. i’m thinking of digging up some sunchokes from the beds to try them out – how were they?
December 22, 2008 at 11:41 pm
audrey
Those tracks would have been mine and the dog’s. We roasted some of the sunchokes the other night with carrots and parsnips and they were very nice. I also made a sunchoke bisque from some I dug out last month. That was perfectly good but the flavor didn’t blow me away. I’ll be curious to hear what you think of them. A word to the wise — I’ve been extra careful about not putting any of the trimmings into our compost, since I’ve heard this can be an escape route for them into your vegetable garden.