Subject: [NAFEX] Artichokes, not quite a fruit, but...
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 07:57:24 -0500
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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