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

Barbara Harrick asked, "Jim, when you start them indoors--it that by seed 
and in a 5 gal. bucket or do you transplant them while they are inside after 
starting them in something smaller?"


   I started them in 3-1/2" x  3-1/2" x 5" pots.  What appears to be the 
secret to getting artichokes to fruit in their first year is to cause them 
to get root-bound while feeding them all the water and fertilizer they need.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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