[Ag-eq] Not Jerusalem artichokes after all!

[Jewel]

Tracey!  With the Globe artichoke, you can, as I did last year, cut off the immature flower, and 
boil and * eat it:  * eat is not the word that I, personally, would choose, but the process is so 
fiddly for such a tiny result, it is just not worth the effort.

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From: "Tracy Carcione via Ag-eq" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2018 3:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Not Jerusalem artichokes after all!

Hi Jewel.
Your artichokes sound very interesting.  Maybe they don't spread much
because you cut off the flowers and eat them before they go to seed?  Are
they supposed to fall over, like you described?
Yum, artichokes!  Some trouble, but any excuse to eat butter and garlic is a
good one.
Tracy


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Subject: [Ag-eq] Not Jerusalem artichokes after all!

They are Globe artichokes, a much less invasive species, which explains why
they have not taken over, but neither do they produce the edible tuber as
does the Jerusalem, which I am, reliably, informed is not a thistle as is
the globe artichoke but are of the aster/daisy genus.
I haven't examined these enormous flowers, in detail, for several days but I
see that the open flowers have developed a perfectly circular patch of
bristles, rather like a human head would do a fortnight after a very
thorough short back and sides haircut.  Is a circular patch of this sort
what is called a monk's tonsure?

        Jewel


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