{"id":3399,"date":"2010-03-29T18:27:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/03\/29\/growing-artichokes\/"},"modified":"2010-04-04T12:28:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T19:28:21","slug":"growing-artichokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/03\/29\/growing-artichokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Artichokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/artichoke.jpg' title='artichoke.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/artichoke.thumbnail.jpg' alt='artichoke.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>For the first time, our artichoke has sprouted a flower pod. We\u2019ve decided not to harvest the edible pod but to let it bloom into the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/06\/29\/artichoke-flower\/\">gorgeous flower<\/a> that artichokes bear. I just watered this plant on Saturday and did not notice the flower pod that seems to have sprung up overnight until Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>I transplanted this from the plastic flowerpot where I tried growing this last year. It has been in its new spot since last fall. I&#8217;m hoping that it sprouts another pod because I would like to harvest one of these. Artichokes are usually 3 to 5 dollars (sometimes more) in the produce section of the supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>I found this about the artichoke at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artichoke\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Globe Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus) is a perennial thistle originating in southern Europe around the Mediterranean. It grows to 4 to six feet tall, with arching, deeply lobed, silvery glaucous-green leaves 20 to 30 inches long. The flowers develop in a large head from an edible bud about 3 to 6 inches in diameter with numerous triangular scales; the individual florets are purple. The edible portion of the buds consists primarily of the fleshy lower portions of the involucral bracts and the base, known as the &#8220;heart&#8221;; the mass of immature florets in the center of the bud is called the &#8220;choke&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, our artichoke has sprouted a flower pod. We\u2019ve decided not to harvest the edible pod but to let it bloom into the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}