"Rusty Hinge" > wrote in message
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> Gill Smith wrote:
>> are 8 feet
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>> and rising
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>> with a plethora of spikey marble-sized globes on top
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>> 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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