Re: Cut back artichokes?
- To: <n*@mindsovermatter.com>, <m*@ucdavis.edu>
- Subject: Re: Cut back artichokes?
- From: "* <j*@shastalink.k12.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 19:20:23 -0700
In my garden in Redding, it's high flowering season for pomegranate, myrtle,
Buddleia, and daylilies; each morning with cup of coffee on the deck I enjoy
a rather garish border of red-orange daylilies and pomegranate with
intermingled purple Buddleia and asters. It looks better than it sounds!
Am also enjoying an abundance of cut flowers, from Stokesia to Alstroemeria
to gladiolus. Lots of swallowtails and hummingbirds in the garden. Almost
makes up for the 100+ degree days. We've had an abundance of wildfires in
the county this last week, including one at the end of our street in a wild
area of blue oak (Q. douglasii) and manzanita (Arctostaphylos viscida). My
husband was out in the middle of the night with a shovel helping to put it
out while I checked hoses in the dark.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nan Sterman <nsterman@mindsovermatter.com>
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Monday, July 05, 1999 6:56 PM
Subject: Cut back artichokes?
>Hi everyone! It's been a long hot day in the garden. I weeded and raked
>and reconfigured my drip system.... I cut back a huge Salvia apiana and
>now I smell like sage scrub!
>
>I was looking at the artichokes. They produced magnificently this year, I
>cut at least 75 chokes from three plants! Now they look pretty sad and
>straggly and I wonder if I should cut them back or let them die back. And
>if I cut them back, how far shall I cut them?
>
>Thanks and how are your gardens?
>
>Nan
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>Nan Sterman
>San Diego County California
>Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
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