Growing Artichokes in Spite of Mother Nature

Original post from Veggie Gardening Tips, February 23, 2008

An interesting question was raised by a gardener looking for tips regarding growing globe artichokes in the home garden:

“I want to grow artichokes this year up here in the Boston area. I have ordered the seeds and am wondering when to start them, when to transplant, and if I will get any edible buds this season. Isn’t there a way to “fool” Mother Nature into thinking this is the second season?” – David P

Globe Artichokes in the Home Garden

You won’t run across too many home gardeners cultivating globe artichokes in their gardens, but I love the challenge as well as the ornamental features that growing artichokes provides to the backyard veggie garden.

I’ve even been known to grow this exotic looking plant just to let them flower; which spoils the opportunity to harvest edible chokes, but produces an ornamental display of extremely large and colorful flowers to admire instead!

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Comments

[rubyoxy]

I've been trying to grow artichokes this year... I had mixed success because I struggled with getting the seeds to germinate and so didn't get the plants started early enough.