I placed this bed which is about 4 'x 8' at the end of the last row of fruit trees I just put in. I wonder how many sunchokes it will make? ![]() We have some old railroad ties and I thought this would be a good place to use a few of them. I have heard that the sunchokes were very invasive and hard to control. The ties are a little over 8 feet long. I cut one of them in half and placed them so that one end was butted up to another tie while the other end was out. I like placing them like this so if in the future I want to make the bed taller I can overlap the ties so that the next layer would have the be over the joints of the first. Because the ground is pretty compacted on this end of the row I dug down a little over a shovel spade deep. I broke up the hard dirt and put it in the front end loader so I would have room to keep digging. After digging the dirt out and breaking it up good I dumped the dirt back in the hole I had made. A good amount of the wood chips have composted. I got a front end load of composted wood chips and dumped on top. I also added a few shovels of compost from our compost pile. I did this to add some organic matter and loosen up the soil. I want those tubers to be able to expand. After that I placed the sunchokes in about 5 inches deep. You can see in the picture the spacing I used. After the first rain the dirt will settle a little and I will top dress this bed with straw.
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