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?

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

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

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