sf wrote:
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:24:02 +0100, Rusty Hinge
wrote:

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)

Did you see a picture of it over in uk.rec.gardening?

No.

Jerusalem
http://hotdogjam.wordpress.com/2009/...em-artichokes/

Globe
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/...a-garden-3.jpg

I did mean to add that the little buds on the Jerusalem artichokes were
flower buds too.

I know what they look like - while I haven't got a globe a, I have
Jerusalem ones growing like weeds here.

(I even had one appear in the workshop.)

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Rusty