"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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