Globe artichokes are perfect for lazy gardeners as they grow tall and majestic all by themselves and produce an eye-catching - and tasty - crop
This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. [Gardening is full of ups and downs as, despite our best efforts, we cannot control Mother Nature. The idea of nurturing plants and growing your own produce is seductive but it can be dispiriting when things die.
There is something very satisfying about snipping off a bulging globe, letting it steam for 40 minutes and then enjoying the fiddly fun of eating it. It’s worth the effort of pulling off the thorny yet succulent sepals to find the smooth creamy heart, delicious dipped in melted butter. My pleasure at harvesting almost a dozen good-sized artichokes off a single plant, was tempered by the unhappy demise of my hazel tree this summer. Several years ago, the small corkscrew hazel had caught my eye at a localIt grew quite happily in a pot and was later transplanted into the garden where it settled down in the shade of my garden fence, growing to a height of about 3m. They are quite easy-going plants that tolerate most kinds of soil, which is lucky as I have heavy claggy clay.
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