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"Adam" writes:
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| OK, here goes my first question about my new garden: does anyone have any
| experience of growing cardoon? It's one of the few plants in my new
| allotment that isn't a weed, and is looking particularly healthy right now
| with beautiful purple flowers. A Google search for it suggests that I've
| probably missed my chance to eat the heads this year, as you have to get
| them before they start flowering, but I can maybe eat the stems in a few
| weeks time.

No, it is the young, blanched, stems that are eaten.

| Does anyone have any experience with cardoon? Any hints or tips for how to
| get the best out of it? Any recipes?

I grew them; they taste like repulsant snozzcombers. Bitter as hell,
even when throughly blanched (in both senses).


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.