Re: [gardeners] Artichokes,
penny x stamm (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:53:54 -0400
Hello, Ron -- we're just back from a week in upstate
N.Y. with my son's family, and I cannot step outside to
check the artichokes -- but here is our status: two
plants, and nothing is growing up thru the first one, but
two grew up on the 2nd one. We ate one last week, which
I instinctively harvested just as the leaves were slightly
spreading open.
Yes, we did suddenly get those nasty little black bugs, to
my horror, and yes, I did spray them with one of the oldest
chemicals we used to use in combination, malathion. It said
on the package that it could be used up to 6 days of harvest
on veggies, or 8 or 10 -- specifying each. I had 16 days till
harvest, so I was not afraid. The bugs returned after 10 days,
but I have not sprayed a second time because there were not
enuff hours in the days before my departure. I shall inspect
everything on Wednesday.
I had no idea that there would be more and more chokes to
come! I was about to chop them up and discard them. Now I shall
spray and then sit back and wait.
Penny, NY
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