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Spring Cleaning
"Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
? Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
I tend thistles; specifically, artichokes. This interest in edible gardening started last year, after an inspirational trip to the OC Great Park Farm + Food Lab (page 11).
Direct sowing proved difficult. As a novice garden detective (page 2), I blamed the long germination time (page 9) and “the slugs return from Capistrano” (page 18) for my lack of seedlings, but I suspect my real problem was that I mistook fleshy smooth-edged artichoke cotyledons for pervasive purslane and weeded them out...
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Happy Gardening,
UCCE Orange County Master Gardeners
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