 Everyone talks about how amazing sun chokes are, but honestly this is the best season I've had in four years of growing them. Usually this would be considered good for a sun choke in my area. Because what they don't tell you is that, yes, while sun chokes can survive most conditions, if you live in a place that's as dry as this during the growing season and which has this little organic matter in the soil, sun chokes aren't going to do anything. This is the first year I'm really getting these blooms like this. It's gorgeous. I got my camera situated. I think I got maybe one bloom last year, maybe two. Honestly, my sun chokes haven't even produced anything. Most of the plants produce nothing at all, and in a really good year, maybe half of the plants will produce one or two tubers. This is the second year that they've been growing in this spot, though. And when I do find the ones that produce more than one tuber, I've been slowly spreading them out, trying to fill in this whole embankment here. And I was able to come in. There was finally enough weeds that I could come in and apply a nice thick layer of mulch, which has helped hold in the moisture that they need to actually produce. So I am really hopeful this year that there's going to be a good crop of sun chokes unlike previous years. But again, if you're depending on sun chokes as a survival crop and you live in a place where it has a droughty growing season and you have minimal organic matter, sun chokes are not going to save you. They might survive, but you're going to be waiting until you have a good year before you actually get a crop. Actually, let me see. Let me see if there's anything to see down here yet. There we go. It's starting to look delicious. The camera will focus. I think I can see that. I'm not going to dig it up yet, because I've still got a few months before there. Really finished doing what they're going to do. But yeah, after I get a harvest, I want to finish spreading them out along here. And then what I want to do with any surplus that I have, still allowing enough for me to actually eat this year because I have not been able to eat any of my own sun choke crop, I will start working my way up the hill planting sun chokes on contour so I can start marking out contour lines. And that's the next phase, marking out contour lines using plants like sun chokes and comfrey and achira and potatoes so that as I'm able to start working my way up the hill and making some additional improvements as far as water flow and terracing and whatnot, I've already got the lines pre-marked and all I've got to do is go in to where the sun chokes are already growing and add any other plants or things that I need to move things along.