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Started by Han, June 16, 2013, 09:23:41

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telboy

As the fronds grow older, the seed pods will show & can be prolific.
They will be male origin plants,
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telboy

Eskimo Nel was a great Inuit.

telboy

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Eskimo Nel was a great Inuit.

artichoke

Just to be clear about male and female plants: they both produce tiny flowers, but only the female plants go on to produce red berries, as you'd expect. You can't tell which they are when they only have fronds without flowers. All the spears from one plant will be the same sex.

Vinlander

Females grow berries mid-season that are the size and colour of peas before ripening red - a slight wait but lot easier to spot than the male flowers.

To repeat what I said before - don't try to dig the females up (I've never had any luck transplanting either - but my soil is heavy) just mark the spot carefully and next year keep cutting them until they stop producing spears at all.

Cheers.
With a microholding you always get too much or bugger-all. (I'm fed up calling it an allotment garden - it just encourages the tidy-police).

The simple/complex split is more & more important: Simple fertilisers Poor, complex ones Good. Simple (old) poisons predictable, others (new) the opposite.

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