Cardoon plants gardening

Planting and Growing Guide for Cardoon (Cynara cardunculus)

Cardoon looks like and is related to artichokes but the buds are not eaten. Instead they are grown for their stems which look like celery but taste like artichokes.

How to Grow Cardoon in your Garden. Growing Cardoon information and tips are given on Time to Sow, when to Transplant, and how to Harvest Cardoons. Gardeners HQ Vegetable Growing Guides.

Considered by some to be just an invasive weed and by others as a culinary delight, cardoon plants are are very similar to the globe artichoke. Learn more about the herb in this article.

Cardoon. It’s beautiful, enormous, and edible. This vegetable is less common--but straightforward to grow in a home garden or an edible landscape.

The mighty cardoon; prized ‘architectural’ plant, top-notch bee plant but also a tasty edible (especially the fleshy mid-rib and stalks of the leaves). It is a perennial plant, often, but not always, surviving a British winter. Almost everything you read tells you that cardoon plants must be blanched (by either earthing up or wrapping in […]

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The edible portion, the leaf stalk or petiole, tastes like its sibling artichoke. The form is dramatic—a bold architectural plant for the edible landscape. Electric-blue flowers attract honeybees. …