sunchoke surprise

Last year my son grew tons of sunflowers, made soup, made stir fry, you name it... He gave me a huge basket of them and I used quite a few then decided that since winter was coming on that I would try to winter some of them over.  I dug a hole and planted the entire bucket into the hole, topped it with a shovel of dirt and a mound of leaves.  This spring they were as fresh and crisp as they could be so I have started cooking with them and of course, planting some for the pretty flower and the root.