Rare Red Concerto Artichoke 10 Seeds – Delicious Veggie

Concerto is a stunning new development, the first red hybrid artichoke! This artichoke produces beautifully colored conical chokes with delicious meaty petals. his very robust plant bears multiple large fruit the first year. The flowerhead is eaten as a vegetable. It is thistle like in appearance Can be pickled, baked, fried, boiled or stuffed. Young artichokes can be eaten raw. Globe Artichokes were cultivated by the Greeks and Romans who obtained them from North Africa. They have been grown in England since at least the 1500’s and were considered an aristocratic vegetable. King Henry VIII (1491-1547; he who had 6 wives but could produce only 3 children) was particularly fond of artichokes, possibly because they were (mistakenly) thought to be an aphrodisiac. Proper name: Cynara scolymus Hardy in zones 6-9