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| I started my first vegetable garden this year, and wanted to try growing artichokes for next year (I've hear it takes a couple years for them to mature). I live in a very cold climate (Wisconsin), so year round growing would need to be done inside.
My question is.....should I just bring the plant inside this winter and put it back outside next year? OR.....should I just let it die off in the winter and come back next spring..... |
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| Neither -- you won't have any success with traditional artichoke varieties like Green Globe or most of the Italian ones in our climate -- they can't overwinter outdoors and are too hard to overwinter indoors really without a greenhouse. I have had some success overwintering the roots by digging them fairly late (around Veteran's Day) and overwintering below the frost line in a deep pit lines with straw. What you need to do is plant Imperial Star or Emerald, the "annual" types that bloom the first year from seed following a vernalization treatment -- start seeds indoors in March, move the little plants outside in April so they get a good dose of chilly weather, then plant, and they'll bear artichokes from around late July into October. There are a lot of threads on here about this. Do a search for Imperial Star and they should come up. |
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