I'm preparing my vegetable garden this year and decided to try sunchokes, aka: jerusalem artichokes. Obviously a geophyte, I'm wondering what experiences people on the PBS list have with different varieties & flavors of this plant. I ended up buying some tubers from a small farm in North Carolina. They're not any particular named variety... just listed as heirloom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunchoke/ During my internet searching I also nearly bought a similar South American plant called yacón. But decided to stick with the sunchokes for now, since sunchokes don't need to be protected here in wintertime. Does anyone on PBS grow yacón? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yac%C3%B3n/ Several of you were growing oca last year. I think that my climate is too cold for good crop production of oca, but maybe there are some cold tolerant varieties now? Anyone know? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oca/ I'm hungry. :-) Dennis in Cincinnati