I've received the Sunchokes from someone whom I'm sending something other than the Purple Tree Collards, Oca and Tropaeolum tuberosum (Mashua). So I'm willing to send those out (probably together) for postage. I won't be harvesting the tuber crops for as much as a month. I'd like to send those to someone who has a chance to succeed with them. Since they are frost-sensitive, and don't form tubers until late in the Fall, they would of course be difficult in areas that get much frost before December. As crops from the high elevations of the Andes, I believe they are difficult in climates with hot summers. If anyone knows otherwise feel free to correct me. So I expect they would go to someone on the West Coast or who is otherwise able to deal with extremes of both hot and cold. If you are interested in these please contact me by email.

kimmsr may be right, I never had that problem. But it sounds like you cut the tubers to small. I did this my first year & with the deer eating down the new growth the chokes died. Next time I planted the chokes whole & got a 100 lbs & replanted most back in the soil.

Yes, I will mail them and would love to have the rose cuttings. My husband loves the Confederate Rose. Send your address to ecrard@cox.net We are getting some nasty weather right now so it may be a few days before I get to the post office.

I'm interested in black gold, black gold x tabouey, 'small', ziman pink, honey gold, and/or Singapore dwarf jackfruit seeds. As far as trading materials go, I have some bitter ginger tubers, some small Georgia-type (orange skin, orange flesh, typical grocery store variety) sweet potato tubers, and some small white sweet potato tubers, which are much much sweeter and give Japanaese SPs a run for their money. I may also have some sunchoke tubers, if they haven't rotted under the soil between late summer and now. Inquire if interested, and I'll go dig in the dirt and see lol. I know it's not much, but I just started getting into tropicals and subtropicals a few months ago. If nothing else, I could do an SASE or something. Any ideas, like seed stores or nurseries that sell seeds from named varieties, would also be welcome. Thank you