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"Rusty Hinge" > wrote in message
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> Ophelia wrote:
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>> "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
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>>> The globes are flower buds, and you have Jerusalem artichokes, not globe
>>> ones...
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>>> When the stems die off, you dig the artichokes up.
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>>> (Globe artichokes are like a big thistle, Jerusalem are in the sunflower
>>> family)

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>> Rusty Hinge as I live and breathe.... )) What are you doing in an
>> American group?))))

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> tasting tha apple pie and grits.


lol I have just noticed it is crossposted
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