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Victoria Clare writes:
| I'm wondering whether to give this a go this year. Chiltern has seed, and
| www.futurefoods.com has tubers.
|
| Is it worth growing? Anyone here growing it? The suppliers reckon it is
| mostly hardy, and as I am in Cornwall I could take the chance - but on the
| other hand my garden looks straight North to Dartmoor, and there was still
| frost on the lawn at lunchtime....

Unless it tastes a hell of a lot better than the tropical ones, no.

That excludes the problems that the claimed hardiness is for very
well-drained soil and probably low night temperatures only, and
that it may well need more heat and light to grow than we get.

You might like to have a go at Stachys affinis ("Chinese artichoke").
I tried it, and it isn't bad as a nibble, but doesn't like dry
summers.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.