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Subject: Re: Artichokes - How hardy are they?
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 09:52:00 EST
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# Written 12:14 pm  Feb  1, 1986 by seb@mtgzy.UUCP in net.garden
# In Real Life: s.e.badian at AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ
# Subject: Artichokes - How hardy are they?

	My husband and I adore artichokes and I would love to plant them
in my garden, but they're perennials and I don't know how well they
over-winter in sometimes chilly central NJ. Anyone in USDA zone 7
(lowest winter temps between 0 and 10 degrees F) have any luck with
them? Should I just forget it and buy California artichokes like the
rest of the country?
	(And before anyone says "Why don't you look in the gardening
catalogs?", let me tell you that I have. THEY say they're hardy enough
for zone 7 with heavy winter mulching, but I want some gardener
testimonials before I spend the money.)

Sharon Badian
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