How to grow Cardoons - From Seed to Harvest
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Paulo explains how to grow Cardoons including starting them off from seed and how they are harvested. He explains what the difference is between the Globe Artichoke and the Cardoon and the benefits of growing both of them.
In effect the Cardoon and the Globe Artichoke are the same plant just bred for different attributes. Cardoons are grown for the stems and Globe Artichokes for the flowering bud.
Paulo describes what kind of an experience he has had growing Cardoons and what conditions suit them best. You can include these Mediterranean natives to the vegetable patch or flower border.
They look amazing as well as providing a tasty crop. They are a perennial so come back every year and can take extreme drought and free draining conditions. They like an open, sunny site and have amazing architectural form and movement to the garden.
Cardoons are great for permaculture systems, food forests and edible planting schemes. Get out there, and grow some!
We also use the leaves as livestock feed and 100% affective de_wormer for sheep goats horses cows..
I'm glad I found your channel. Thanks for such a lovely video on Cardoon, they are under valued plant in many places, and I think especially misunderstood in the USA. You say it much better than I ever could and so I'm going to share this with everyone especially those putting down the plant. I hope it will inspire them to try again.
I was just given cardoon seedlings to have a go at growing them. Your video was really informative...thanks
Thanks! I’m growing for first time and they are doing well!
Hey great! god luck with it!
Crowing for first time. I live in a rainy climate so hoping I can keep them alive. Thank you for info.
Can’t believe in UK an English m’en have this interests in cardoon ! Respect from Algeria
Hey thanks Sam, Have been to Morocco, North Africa is Beautiful! Would love to go to Algeria God bless!
@@paulotheurbanfarmer5982 hi , your welcome here Algeria is massive I’m sure you like it mate
Hi mate me again please can you tell me where do I get good seeds over here in the uk ?
@@samben9238 Hi ben, I'm not sure I'm the best expert here but I use Chiltern seeds online.....I have taken my chances on ebay for some rare things will not bad success. Thanks for tuning in buddy looking forward to the new season. Paulo
I grew them for a few years at the bottom of a hedge on my allotment, after hearing about them from the Victorian kitchen garden. Nice plant, though I thought bitter
Thank you so much! Will try to grow this year
How did it do in the heat wave and drought England had?
OK so how do you harvest it? How do you blanch it?
thank you for making this video! I am always on the hunt for anything that will grow in extreme temperatures, and drought- even though I do not let drought happen- because I live in the Mojave Desert (I call it the Devil's arse). We are at 2500 above sea level, and temperatures are terribly high, with swings in degree like those of Mars. It can range by 60 degrees from day to night. The wind is a common problem here, as well. I find it so difficult to grow anything. I bought some Gobbo di Nizzia cardoon seeds, how do you think they will fair? I will start them inside, or possibly outside but in the early fall. Please, I am so desperate for a garden!!!!!!!!!!!!
man your videos are on point its spooky :D Dug up some Cardoons yesterday, cut down some feverfew and made some lesser plantain tinkture for bee stings , its like you are reading my mind :D
Hey mate great minds think alike brother! Thanks for watching!
Mine is about 10ft !!
How do you get the seeds for the cardoon thistle
Excellent
in italy we eat the stems.
Miss ya bids bro
Hi. I'm wondering if you can produce your own seeds from a single plant and whether you would have to worry about cross pollination with artichoke or even wild thistle? Thx.
Hi Jeil , I certainly would bear this in mind and yes it is a possibility. However I believe that most pollinators travel at most 3 miles from their colony. So the chances of you having many artichokes in range I guess is slim. I also have a feeling the two actually flower at a slightly different time due to the breeding of the artichoke bud. I am not 100%. My guess would be the more cardoons you have the lower the risk.
@@paulotheurbanfarmer5982 Great. Thanks. I just got back from picking up seeds.
We’re can I get some seeds brother?