Annual Artichoke Culture in Germany

Globe artichoke – a vegetable, herb and ornamental of value in central Europe:

“…Many agricultural techniques can be introduced to provide precise control over artichoke growth and development in temperate climatic zones, including diversification of transplant age (Pesti et al, 2004;Bucan et al, 2005), or mulching with black films (Halter et al, 2005a;Sharaf-Eldin et al, 2007;Leskovar et al, 2013). Garcia and Cointry (2010) proposed cold treatment of seedlings at the two expanded-leaf stage as an effective method to increase globe artichoke yields.…”