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Perennial Artichokes don't come 100% true from seed, you will get slight variation in shape and colour, but from our selection of seeds you'll get plenty of quick-cropping plants for your garden.
Violetta di Chioggia is a beautiful and early globe artichoke. We start eating these in late May. Picked small, the buds have no choke. I love globe artichokes so I pick from these plants first, then 'Gros Vert de Laon', by which time 'Violetta' is cropping again. It's worth having a few plants of each so you get a good successional system with these perennial plants. I also spray these silver and use them at Christmas. They look fantastic.
Violetta di Chioggia is a beautiful and early globe artichoke. We start eating these in late May. Picked small, the buds have no choke. I love globe artichokes so I pick from these plants first, then 'Gros Vert de Laon', by which time 'Violetta' is cropping again. It's worth having a few plants of each so you get a good successional system with these perennial plants. I also spray these silver and use them at Christmas. They look fantastic.
- Seeds: 30
Sowing: Need a well-drained, rich soil and full sun. Sow under cover in late Feb/early March - July. Plant out when roots fill a 9cm pot. They can also be sown direct in late spring Final Thinning/Planting Distance: 60cm Harvesting: May produce small artichokes in first summer but remove these ot eat at golf ball size. Don't allow them to grow to full size as they will hamper the development of the plant. The harvest in the following years will be most prolific in July. Pick when scales are tightly closed to be at their best for eating or allow to flower if you want to use them in arrangements.
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