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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Barbara Harrick said, "I have finally overwintered and grown artichokes on 
the East
Coast in zone 6b!!!!  It has taken many years of try and try again, but
I have finally done it."


Barbara,
   I have over-wintered them here in zone 3 but there is a better way.  I 
start them indoors  and plant them out in late May/Early June.  I plant them 
in 5-gallon nursery pots watering them with trickle irrigation using 5-20-30 
fertilizer.  Plants grow rapidly and, as soon as they get root-bound, they 
start putting on chokes.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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