Comments on: Growing Cardoons http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/growing-cardoons Cooking - Photography & More Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:05:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Hank http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/growing-cardoons#comment-6174 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:10:17 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/growing-cardoons#comment-6174 How on earth did you kill cardoons? Maybe they all drowned. They grow without thought here in California. I have a hedge of them. Which reminds. me...time to cut them to the ground to get a winter's crop... How on earth did you kill cardoons? Maybe they all drowned. They grow without thought here in California. I have a hedge of them. Which reminds. me…time to cut them to the ground to get a winter’s crop…

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/growing-cardoons#comment-6169 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:54:58 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/growing-cardoons#comment-6169 Cid, They are quite striking aren't they, glad you were able to put your mother right in such an educated manner :) Miles Cid,
They are quite striking aren’t they, glad you were able to put your mother right in such an educated manner :)

Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/growing-cardoons#comment-6165 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:13:21 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/growing-cardoons#comment-6165 Miles, My mother grew one a few years back and kept referring to it as 'the big thistle'. Don't think she cooked any of it but it did look splendid with it's large silvery green foliage and purple flowers. Cid p.s. that's no weed mother, I said, that's a 'Cynara cardunculus' :) Miles,

My mother grew one a few years back and kept referring to it as ‘the big thistle’. Don’t think she cooked any of it but it did look splendid with it’s large silvery green foliage and purple flowers.

Cid

p.s. that’s no weed mother, I said, that’s a ‘Cynara cardunculus’ :)

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