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Old 29-09-2010, 04:22 PM posted to rec.food.cooking,uk.rec.gardening
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"Rusty Hinge" wrote in message
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Gill Smith wrote:
are 8 feet

and rising

with a plethora of spikey marble-sized globes on top

deep joy


The globes are flower buds, and you have Jerusalem artichokes, not globe
ones...

When the stems die off, you dig the artichokes up.

(Globe artichokes are like a big thistle, Jerusalem are in the sunflower
family)


Rusty Hinge as I live and breathe.... )) What are you doing in an
American group?))))


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