Ophelia wrote:
"Rusty Hinge" wrote in message
...
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?))))
tasting tha apple pie and grits.
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Rusty