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  • Any of you guys ever grow artichokes?

    From T@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 7 18:26:46 2021
    https://www.burpee.com/artichoke-wonder-hybrid-prod600018.html

    Your thoughts? I do love eating them.

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  • From Gary Woods@21:1/5 to T@invalid.invalid on Wed Dec 8 09:20:22 2021
    On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 18:26:46 -0800, T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    https://www.burpee.com/artichoke-wonder-hybrid-prod600018.html

    Your thoughts? I do love eating them.

    I tried some years ago; got a few small ones. Hardly worth the effort.
    Upstate NY in the hills west of Albany; 1400 feet up.
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  • From T@21:1/5 to Gary Woods on Wed Dec 8 16:46:34 2021
    On 12/8/21 06:20, Gary Woods wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 18:26:46 -0800, T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    https://www.burpee.com/artichoke-wonder-hybrid-prod600018.html

    Your thoughts? I do love eating them.

    I tried some years ago; got a few small ones. Hardly worth the effort. Upstate NY in the hills west of Albany; 1400 feet up.


    I had a feeling.

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  • From Pavel314@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 9 05:53:22 2021
    On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 9:26:49 PM UTC-5, T wrote:
    https://www.burpee.com/artichoke-wonder-hybrid-prod600018.html

    Your thoughts? I do love eating them.

    I sort of remembered that my wife planted some in our garden a few years ago. We're in Maryland, north of Baltimore and fairly close to the Chesapeake Bay. Here's her reply:

    "Yes, I did, and we ate some of the artichokes: very small they were. Very prickly artichoke plants are. I think they prefer to grow as perennials in California. The seed packets of some varieties say they bear first year, and some years they do (I grew
    them at least twice and once they did not produce at all) but they are not enthusiastic in Maryland."

    Paul

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  • From Bob F@21:1/5 to Gary Woods on Thu Dec 9 07:07:52 2021
    On 12/8/2021 6:20 AM, Gary Woods wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 18:26:46 -0800, T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    https://www.burpee.com/artichoke-wonder-hybrid-prod600018.html

    Your thoughts? I do love eating them.

    I tried some years ago; got a few small ones. Hardly worth the effort. Upstate NY in the hills west of Albany; 1400 feet up.


    I tried once. It was one of the most productive ant farms I ever saw.
    Aphids and ants.

    My sister grows them in Mount Vernon WA and got some good ones.

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 9 09:20:07 2021
    T wrote:
    ...
    I had a feeling.

    i've never tried growing them here.

    i think it might be worth the effort if you enjoy eating
    them, but i don't think you have soil defined as "light, fertile,
    well drained", your pH is likely to be too high (they like
    more neutral soil and not heavily alkaline).

    doesn't look like they do very well in hot weather. :(

    https://www.thespruce.com/tips-for-growing-artichokes-1403455


    songbird

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  • From T@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 9 19:58:07 2021
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