these are the biggest peruvian purple potatoes i or my brother learner have ever seen(i placed a canadian quarter for comparison). they came out of a bed of jerusalem artichoke i'd planted at Wild's Edge last spring, in which these spuds had been grown previously. i didn't think i'd have the pleasure of digging them, but they were left in the ground all winter, and i dug them when i was there for those few weeks after getting back from Chicago. doing this part of the work of growing root vegetables such as these is like digging for buried treasure. i found it very satisfying. the j-ru didn't produce as much as they may have if the goats had not eaten all their foliage at the peak of the summer.
'j-ru' for short
