Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus
Growing calendar
Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.
Guides
- How to Sow Globe Artichoke Seed and Get Plants Worth Keeping
- Globe Artichoke Care: Space, Feeding and Keeping the Crown Productive
- Globe Artichoke Growing Calendar: The Season and the Four-Year Cycle
- Globe Artichoke Pests and Diseases: Aphids, Slugs and Crown Rot
- When to Cut Globe Artichokes: Reading the Scales Before They Open
- Overwintering Globe Artichokes: Protecting or Lifting the Crown
Pests and diseases (3)
Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.
Anthracnose
Disease
Light brown to dark brown round lesions with sharp margins form on leaves and fruit, slightly sunken in the center. In wet weather salmon-pink slimy spore masses ooze out on the lesions.
Ring Rot
Disease
The bark of branches and trunk becomes rough and warty, serving as the inoculum source. Fruit develops round brown lesions that soften and rot in concentric rings.