"Des Higgins" wrote in message
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"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" wrote in message
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"Des Higgins" wrote in message
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I am also a glutton for fashion whims and now want globe artichokes
after
seeing that Carol Klein digging up muddy handfuls and making chips.
Des in Dublin

Are those the Irish undeground version of Jerusalem Artichokes:-)

Ahhhhhhhhh bugger!!!
got me Cynaras and me Helianthusses mixed up so I did.
That's a fair cop guv.
(both silly names anyway :-)

Cynaras and Artichokes is different. Now you do have to have be very strange
to want to eat Cardoons.
If you do go for J Artichokes then get the ones that make big fat
tubers-because they are a swine to clean.The small things take ages to get
the muck out of all the crevices,even after boiling.
And there is nothing wrong with the fart thingy-it aerates one's piles.