Agriculture Reference
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and do not store well. At Arche Noah we put tubers in a pot covered with lightly moistened peat or
cocopeat with wood shavings; in this way, they can be stored all winter in a cool cellar. Do not allow
to dry out.
Mint family flowers appear to form an upper and lower lip with their petals. Pictured here are the large, fragrant flowers of
clary sage.
SELECTION CHARACTERISTICS
Select only healthy (virus-free) tubers and good-looking plants for
propagation. Potential selection criteria:
• yield (number and size of tubers)
• flavor and ease in processing (not too tangled = easier to clean, cut)
• early tuber development
Root tubers
DISEASES AND PESTS
Chinese artichoke often succumbs to that classic problem of vegetatively propag-
ated crops: viral disease. Viral diseases were the reason that Chinese artichoke cultivation nearly
