"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.

can you leave them in the ground until you use them

I suppose the flowers should be removed as useless ornamentation

even though they look rather attractive

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