Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: shaun on October 16, 2007, 21:18
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the Jerusalem artichokes have flowers on so are they ready or do you wait for them to die back?.never tasted them before so i'm realy tempted to have a dig
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I just dug one up today. Lit after flowering, as with pots, but it's just so late they are flowering this year. :wink:
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mine don't even look like flowering. just like 9ft tall and green with slightly browning lower leaves.
I have only 3 but one is starting to look a bit like a tree :shock:
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same here jake mine must be 9' i remember someone on here saying they might reach 6',just got flowers the past week or so
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the Jerusalem artichokes have flowers on so are they ready or do you wait for them to die back?.never tasted them before so i'm realy tempted to have a dig
Patience dear boy : http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?p=89606#89606 :wink:
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I would let them be in flower for a week or so, could also earth them up. :wink:
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nothing looking like a flower last weekend.
I've got them far apart though and I only looked at one.
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why would you earth them up gobs ?
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why would you earth them up ?
Bit late for that now. Earthing up earlier in season will cause them to put out extra roots for more nutrient-gathering & stability in wind.
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It helps not to fall over and apparently helps to increase yields. :roll:
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It helps not to fall over and apparently helps to increase yields.
SNAP !!
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new one on me about extra yields ive put posts n wire around them though to stop them getting blown about
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It helps not to fall over and apparently helps to increase yields.
SNAP !!
What do you mean, please, they just started budding. :roll:
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It helps not to fall over and apparently helps to increase yields.
SNAP !!
What do you mean, please, they just started budding. :roll:
Snap meaning we posted the same thing. (Snap is a card game)
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the Jerusalem artichokes have flowers on so are they ready or do you wait for them to die back?.never tasted them before so i'm realy tempted to have a dig
Just be careful after eating them Shaun.....don't follow through!!!!!
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dont worrry aggy he wears diapers :wink:
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same here jake mine must be 9' i remember someone on here saying they might reach 6',just got flowers the past week or so
Shaun The artichoke Fuseau only grows to about 6' the others up to 10' or more
Fuseau are less knobbly.
If you treat them like potatoes,you cannot go far wrong,earth them up to increase yields once they are around a foot high.Cut back to around about a foot high once the leaves have gone brown.Then harvest as required. Save a few for planting next season. :wink: All the books I have read advise the same thing. 8) :wink:
And yes you should earth up or cover the base with staw if you are leaving them in the ground between now and spring.This will help protect them against frost or even dare I say it Snow.Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. :wink:
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It helps not to fall over and apparently helps to increase yields.
SNAP !!
What do you mean, please, they just started budding. :roll:
Snap meaning we posted the same thing. (Snap is a card game)
Which WG will only play with you if you have a stutter. :lol: :wink:
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dont worrry aggy he wears diapers :wink:
Ah bless him ;)
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Planted my first this year. Rabbits dug up a chewed a couple of tubers, but they grew back. I grew them through horizontal Rylock fencing which I continually raised up vertical supports as they grew.
Now over 12 feet high and all in bloom.
Are the flowers any good for cutting (a bit small, but my flowers have finished) and will it affect tuber production?
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mine are about 12ft and no sign of a flower... got them tied to the apple tree to stop them falling over... :)
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Cut mine back once the flowers started to appear, just waiting now for the plants to die off.
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Are the flowers any good for cutting (a bit small, but my flowers have finished) and will it affect tuber production?
They are good for cutting, just as any sunflower type, if you just take a few, shouldn't make any dif. :)
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i would suspect that shaun's JAs are a little shorter than he thinks - they just look tall in comparison to him :wink:
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It helps not to fall over and apparently helps to increase yields.
SNAP !!
What do you mean, please, they just started budding. :roll:
Snap meaning we posted the same thing. (Snap is a card game)
Which WG will only play with you if you have a stutter. :lol: :wink:
Oh, I see, foreign, so no understand all things, but no stutter. :D
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Where are the tubers available from? I don't seem to be able to find anyone who does them?
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Where are the tubers available from? I don't seem to be able to find anyone who does them?
Try popping a wanted post in the Swap Shop / Recycle forum & perhaps someone will oblige. And don't forget to say, "please"! :wink: :lol:
Dobies have them too
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:roll:
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well i only gone and dug one plant up today,theres were masses of them,not sure on the weight but I got over half a bucket of 1 plant.
brought em home and deep fried a handfull to give em a go,and they are gorgeous,the kids and the mrs also thought they were great.
will try johns soup next 8)
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Will you be accompanying the X-Factor contestants this evening?
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were going next door for there lads 18th I will let thee know what happens sally :lol:
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well I wouldn't "oops upside yer head" unless you knew the person infront and behind intimately
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well I wouldn't "oops upside yer head" unless you knew the person infront and behind intimately
*shakes head*
Well saturday night and I am on the puter because X-bloodyfactor is on and the missues loves it and I don't :)
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I (very kindly) received some tubers from Agapanthus. I haven't had a chance to plant them yet - will I be ok to pot them up into decent sized pots until Spring?
Or do I need to get them in the ground now?
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I (very kindly) received some tubers from Agapanthus. I haven't had a chance to plant them yet - will I be ok to pot them up into decent sized pots until Spring?
Or do I need to get them in the ground now?
Deffo get them into soil. A pot (each) is fine and plant into final position any time you want before, say, early March.
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Thanks WG, just the answer I was looking for! I'll pot them all up (individually) tomorrow.
I have a perfect spot for them, it's just not ready yet.
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I'm hoping to grow the fuseau variety of these next year. If I am going to save some of the tubers for the following year how owuld I do that? leave them in the ground until needed or lift and store, and if storing whats the best way?
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Leaving in the ground would be best.
But some people lift them and store as per potatoes but this is a desperate measure and affects the flavour badly. :wink:
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well i only gone and dug one plant up today,theres were masses of them,not sure on the weight but I got over half a bucket of 1 plant.
brought em home and deep fried a handfull to give em a go,and they are gorgeous,the kids and the mrs also thought they were great.
will try johns soup next 8)
Well done, Shaun. :) I've not deep fried them(don't deep fry much), that's on my list for next time. :)
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you must try them deep fried gobs they are delish,
what they like roasted ?
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Nice and sweet, but kids won,t eat them, so deep frying is a must try for me. :wink:
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so to roast em would you par boil em 1st like a spud ?
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Yes, I do.
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rightyho then its liver n onions,mash,cabbage and roasted artichokes for tea 8)
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Sleep with the windows open tonight, won't you!
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I'm hoping to grow the fuseau variety of these next year. If I am going to save some of the tubers for the following year how owuld I do that?
They will almost certainly re-grow from volunteers
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Sleep with the windows open tonight, won't you!
Yeh, onion, cabbage JA might be a bit too much... :roll: :roll: :lol:
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I usually cut them down to a few inches in November when they have pretty much died back. Then dig up as required over winter (as long as ground diggable). just been away a week, itching to get to my plot and it's a howling gale and rain. Potatoes still not all dug. Sometimes so difficult to scrounge time - the most precious commodity.