THIN ARTICHOKE SHOOTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

THIN ARTICHOKE SHOOTS.

The Jerusalem artichoke is a useful vegetable, but it is not one of those that receives much cultivation or thought. Even where it is grown and appreciated as a vegetable seldom is any attempt inado to improve its condition; usually planted in some out of the way corner, it is left to itself till the tubers are wanted. The average tuber, as planted, makes three or four shoots of varying strength. Reduce these shoots to two or even one, and you will get quite as heavy a crop, but better tubers. Cut off the low down; this can be done by scraping away some of the soil. It broken or pulled off a dormant bud will bo left, which commences to prow later, and will reduce the value of the disbudding. A dressing of blood and bone manure at the rate of, say, one ounce to four plants, apniied now. and the soil stirred and pulled up to the plants will mean a much improved crop.

Where there is sufficient room plant rose beds entirely of one or two varieties.