| Author |
Message |
    
Da_bear
storyteller
Username: Da_bear
Post Number: 325
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 3:12 pm: |     |
I need some advice here. Artichokes.
They are sending up spikes. I have never had any survive the heat long enough to do this. The ones in the open are dying already, but those I have in the shade with misters around them are putting up the flower stalks. (obviously I am getting a little crazy about not being defeated.)
What do I do? I have tried to grow them for years and this is my chance to get some. Are the delicate and need staking??? Do I prune for a few buds instead of many? Do I run naked at 3 AM and sing to them????
HELP!!!!!
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. |
Cavebear
flint knapper
Username: Cavebear
Post Number: 999
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 1:38 am: | |
The only way I want artichokes is quartered and marinated. So, I don't know anything about growing them. But good luck of growing them.
I thought I was wrong once, but it turned out I was mistaken about that. |
Anndee
storyteller
Username: Anndee
Post Number: 103
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 24, 2004 - 2:08 am: | |
Living some 60 miles south of Castroville, the "Artichoke Center of the World," I can tell you that you need to keep them as cool and misted as possible. They like foggy weather.
I prefer smaller artichokes (you can actually eat the thistle part) to larger ones. The best 'chokes have a slight purple tinge caused by a mild frosting.
For future reference, I live near Fayter Farms
Their artichokes are delicious and heat resistant. Only problem is that they sell seeds in bulk. I can't attest to ease of growing, because I want plants already started, and always catch them at the wrong time! |
Pine
storyteller
Username: Pine
Post Number: 457
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 24, 2004 - 4:29 am: | |
I guess the ones that grew in the fields of Bitzaron were of a heat and drought resistant variety - 400 mm annual precipitation and blazing hamsins. |
Thalion
storyteller
Username: Thalion
Post Number: 823
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 24, 2004 - 7:23 am: | |
The running naked and singing part seems just right... 
Apart from that, no idea. From Anndee's and Pine's experience - looks like you don't have the right variety for your climate, maybe.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they pass by - Douglas Adams |
Salvia
bear cub
Username: Salvia
Post Number: 7
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 1:35 pm: | |
Here the artichoke season seems to revolve around April, though the plants themselves grow all through the winter. I have slightly vague memories of standing with my mother in a field where the thistles grew above my head, picking wild artichoke. |
Living like Ayla