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Re: gardenwriters Digest, Vol 134, Issue 1

Chokes: We grow em in Anchorage. Sometimes they fruit the first season. We store em in a greenhouse over  winter if they do not...

Jeff

Plant A Row For The Hungry...and read "TEAMING WITH MICROBES: THE ORGANIC GARDENER'S GUIDE TO THE SOIL FOOD WEB." 

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> From: Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp <thehoosiergardener@gmail.com>
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> Anyone who has grown artichokes (the real ones, not sunchokes) in USDA Zone 5 (Indiana), please tell me your experiences.
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>> Anyone who has grown artichokes (the real ones, not sunchokes) in USDA Zone 
>> 5 (Indiana), please tell me your experiences.
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> I have, with some success. I can tell you the the standard Green Globe 
> doesn't work well in zone 5 (PA) -- either growing season too short or 
> mid-summer too hot. Imperial Star is much better for my clime. Emerald may 
> be better still, but it is hard to find seed. They are a little touchy in 
> the seedling stage; I generally lose several. And one little quirk: after 
> the seedlings have a few leaves they like a period of quite cool nights 
> before planting out, not hard to come by here. The great thing about 
> artichokes is that even if you get little food, they are very decorative 
> plants.
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