Growing Artichokes!

Do you want to learn how to grow artichokes?

Growing a garden full of artichoke plants is easy and you might be surprised
how many artichoke plants you can fit in a small space.

1 Year Old Artichoke Plant

I've been growing artichoke plants for over a year and they are extremely healthy. I have eaten an artichoke that grew in my garden and I never want to touch a store bought artichoke again! I only wish that I had more artichoke plants and that the growing season was longer!

Check this blog regularly for updates regarding my artichoke garden. I'm working on getting clearer pictures of my artichoke plants and I will post the picture here on this Garden Blog.

I also plan to share with you some of the many artichoke recipes that I just adore!

So Stay Tuned!

Check out my *Artichoke* article on eHow :

How to Grow a Garden of Artichoke Plants

See ya next time!

* SunnyStars *

Artichoke Update

I have three artichoke plants at the moment.

Here's the artichoke update :

Plant 1 - This one isn't looking so good. It doesn't get enough sun and (so far) it hasn't flowered.

Plant 2 - This one flowered and I already ate the artichoke that it produced! (It was small but very tasty!)

Plant 3 - This one is flowering as we speak. I decided to let the fruit turn into a flower so that I could collect the seeds and save them for next year. Artichoke seeds are expensive and it looks like I won't ever need to buy them again.

See you soon!

* SunnyStars *

Artichoke plants

Friday, May 15, 2009

My artichokes are fruiting!

I have wonderful news :

* I have 3 artichoke plants instead of 2!
* They are all 3 fruiting and I will be eating homegrown artichokes before the end of May!

I couldn't be happier. Everyday my garden brings me more and more happiness.

SunnyStars Vegetable Garden!

Hello Again,

Here are some pictures from my vegetable garden

The big plant on the bottom is my artichoke plant.
The tall grassy plant in the middle is an onion plant.
I use the onion plant leaves as a flavoring for food! =)

This is a carrot that I'm growing for the seeds.

Here is that same artichoke plant.
I can't even begin to describe how much I love Artichokes with garlic butter.
I planted my artichokes last year so they should flower either this year or next!
I'm beyond excited!

Yummy Spinach!

I will be uploading many more pictures by the end of this week
and I hope to see you then!

Until Next time,

- SunnyStars

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Artichoke plant
(1 year old, it should sprout artichokes this year, I think)

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Two of the plants that have been growing in my garden since last year seem to be Artichoke plants! I just love eating artichokes!