Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. Before we begin, I wanted

to just make a comment to you guys who have been listening to the podcast for a while.

I know over the last couple months the podcast has been a little bit iffy. We've had weeks

where we haven't had episodes and then we've also had some audio issues. I just wanted

to come on first before we get into today's topic, which is the sun choke, the Jerusalem

Artor choke or, as I call it, the farted choke. And just apologize for some of those issues.

It's something that I'm not happy that we put episodes out like that. I really did not

think that we had the audio issues we had at the time and then they made their way in

through the edit and there you go. So certainly not proud of it, but we are fixing that going

forward. And of course, on these solo episodes this week, we will be just chatting you and

I about some cool stuff that I think you should be thinking about right now in your garden.

So we're talking about the Jerusalem Artor choke today. It is related to the sunflower.

It is in the sunflower family. It's a prolific grower. And if you can stomach it, and I literally

mean stomach it, if your stomach can handle this plant, it is a great, great plant to be

growing because it's easy and it's nutritious. And really, that's all you need when it comes

to growing something in the garden. Jerusalem Artor Chokes, Helianthus tuberosis. Again,

called sun choke, sun root, wild sunflower, earth apples, lovingly called farted chokes

by many people because of that gaseous effect that they contend to have when you consume them.

It's actually a plant native to North America, central North America, grown as a perennial

and is a staple in Plains Native American diets. So it hasn't long history here in the United

States and in honestly North America in general. And what does it taste like? It sort of has this

starchy texture. It's a little bit nutty. It's a little bit sweet. It's sort of like maybe like a

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