Hi all,
PTP No. 6 just put back in the Post, need some advice please .....
Jackie (OH) has taken 4 seeds of 'Cardoon', we cannot find it in our RHS books (quite a surprise ???) but located an article on the Web, which suggests the seed should be sown in Autumn, it makes Winter/Spring growth and dies back in Summer ???? sounds weird to us ... not to be too technical but A**e about Face ;)
Can the 'Team' recommend the right way and time to sow these seeds.
thanks
Mikey
Sorry, put it in the wrong place, should be in Non-Edible (I think) but do not know how to move it
I got 3 seeds from seed swap too
Mine are in a pot in the cold frame - didn't think to check up on what I should do...
Will let you know if I have any success :)
found this, if it's any help, for growing as a crop?
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/a/artic068.html
I bought a cardoon as a plant a couple of springs ago and harvested seed from it last year (and added some to a couple of swaps) which I sowed 10 of on Easter Monday and have 7 seedlings so far! mine are purely ornamental though, the flowers are AMAZING and the bees and moths love 'em ;D
Norfolklass,
your piccie did not/will not download, left PC on for last 1 1/2 hrs no result ???
no problem with other pages on A4A (as far as I know)
thanks for your response
Cheers
Mikey
The above article is pretty good-once a cardoon is established it`s easy to multiply by taking side shoots or root division.
I`ve never tried blanching them to eat though.
Quote from: mikey on April 17, 2007, 17:06:47
Norfolklass,
your piccie did not/will not download, left PC on for last 1 1/2 hrs no result ???
no problem with other pages on A4A (as far as I know)
thanks for your response
Cheers
Mikey
ooh, sorry about that!
it's just a pic of my cardoon in flower last year, nothing terribly exciting ;)
Hallo Mikey, every garden I ,ve ever had I always plant a Cardoon as a beautiful flambouyant centerpiece . with its gorgeous blue green leaves just screaming out "look at me I am absolutely fabulous !" The flowers are just a bonus . I have never braised the stems like celery,as I have read somewhere. Up in the veg garden I grow Artichokes (same family) for eating...though mine are not quite mature enough yet..so I just enjoy their spectacular show for the time being also . For me ,I found them easy peasy to germinate or take root pieces , protect them in winter if very cold where you are ,they dont always die right back . Rohaise :)
I had some seed last year from Emma Jane and I sewed it 3 weeks ago and they still have one pair of leaves. They do l;ook well though. I shan't put them out until end of may though. I did notice that someone on our site had got some self sowers that had come up and they looked ok. In future year I will leave them to their own devices
just thought i,d have another go at sowing cardoon i put them in compost a few weeks ago and they are showing mean while the one i planted and thought i,d lost seems to be coming up!!hope it looks like yours norfolklass
marg
I planted some two or three weeks ago, and it's coming up happily.
The cardoon plants surrounding my bananas were sown from seed at about this time last year. They probably would have been even bigger if they had not been transplanted a while back. Once their roots get down into the lower levels the growth rate can take you by surprise so make sure there is plenty of space between them.
(http://david-frary.com/images/bananas_planted.jpg)
Cardoons do look spectacular with those electric blue flowers!
The down side is that the stems taste like a cross between cardboard and string (IMHO) ;D
I don't intend to eat them, just use them as ornamentals.
I grow the ornamental variety 'Florist's cardy', it's really easy from seed, and mine keep some foliage all winter and get up to about 7-8' high in the summer.
Quote from: mikey on April 17, 2007, 17:06:47
Norfolklass,
your piccie did not/will not download, left PC on for last 1 1/2 hrs no result ???
no problem with other pages on A4A (as far as I know)
thanks for your response
Cheers
Mikey
your piccie loaded fine this a.m. wow .... a startling plant
thanks everyone for comments, will sow seeds today
Mikey