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Re: Artichokes

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Don't you all agree it would be ever so much more interesting and helpful if
messages like this also included what area of the country people lived in?

( Congratulations on Doreen on the artichokes! Exciting!)

Patricia
Zone 7b, West Georgia

At 08:21 PM 6/24/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>I planted Imperial Star artichoke seeds along with the tomato and pepper
>seeds last March and raised them under lights.  (Thanks to all the people
>who gave advice!) The plants had to receive 200 hours of temps between
>34-40F in order to set buds in the first season--the instructions on the Web
>said.  So I did all that and then set out the plants in the garden about
>mid-April.  I have artichokes!!!!!!  Every plant is sprouting a big one in
>the center, and now I can see smaller ones forming further down the main
>stalk!  This is way cool!!  Artichokes in one season!  I love them and found
>them impossible to raise in Texas because of the heat.  The buds formed
>about 70 days after setting out the transplants, which means just about any
>gardener anywhere can grow them.  It won't be long, and I'll be steaming a
>batch and dipping them into olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
>Doreen Howard
>
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