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ARTICHOKES
PERENNIAL GAMECOVER ~ SPRING SOWN TUBERS
The crop will grow in most soil types and is not geographically limited. Individual plants may grow to over six feet tall and will remain green until mid autumn. From that time there will be a gradual die back, but should maintain cover until the end of the shooting season. Careful management is required in spring each year where new tubers will have formed between rows, if these are left unchecked the crop will cease to be of use as birds will not be able to move freely through the crop.
Amongst the disadvantages of the crop is that once you have artichokes on a piece of land you will have a problem removing them totally. New tubers being formed all the time during the growing season. Another drawback is that the tubers must be sown within a very short time of being harvested as once the tubers start to dry off they are of no use. Tubers should be harvested, bagged and re-sown within 48 hours for best results. Crops should ideally be sown between mid March and May. Sowing rate is approximately 0.5tonnes per acre. 1.25tonnes per hectare. Excellent results are gained from treating the tubers as potatoes for sowing purposes.
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