Artichoke – Violet de Provence
February-March in pots and plant out in mid-May. Perennial, but must be covered in winter. Also very nice as a decorative garden plant; the flowers are also suitable for dried bouquets.

Product features

• Perennial crop
• Delightful, fleshy bracts of flower buds
• Beautiful decoration in dried bouquets

Pitch

• Application in a pot – yes
• Sow open ground – yes
• Position – light Sunny and sheltered

Periods

• Sowing time indoors from February
• Sowing time indoors until March
• Sowing time outside of April
• Sowing time outdoors until May
• Harvest time of August
• Harvest time until September

Advice and tips

• Sowing advice – under glass, later in a seedbed
• Care advice – get rid of deviant plants
• Harvest advice – regularly harvest closed flower buds
• Cover winter-ready advice – with straw and plastic

Seed characteristics
Seeds per gram: 20