It is a blessing to listen to those who have much experience in the garden. The greens that I find do the very best are the chards, but they like spinach are high in oxalates. The bugs tend to leave them alone while all other greens are always being eaten or covered greatly. I have never had kidney stones, and I want to keep it that way, so I eat less of the chard than any other green.
Raw pineapple? Is that a fresh pineapple? They must cook canned pineapple. Never thought about that. But, now that I compare the two, there is no question they do not taste the same.
Never heard of Hosta shoots.
Chard and artichokes have never been attacked by aphids like my other greens. My chokes are all ready for harvest. God has blessed and I am giving many to my friends. They all come at the same time. Some get a second harvest in the fall, but I never do. From the first 4" pot I have now have 16 or so from seeds or from them spreading themselves. Never seen anything on the chokes except for earwigs. So far they do no damage. They are not in my garden. I have them growing in an area where there are deer. They do not eat or scrape their horns on the plants.
Because they are not near the greens, I guess they are not getting the aphids like the greens do. I am trying find out if we can grow them at 5,000 ft where there is heavy snow. I get lemons and artichokes before anything else except for the winter garden.
Last summer my elephant heart plums damaged my two young trees the crop was so heavy. My joy turned to sorrow. One tree split down the main trunk of the tree. I had removed more than half of the plums, but it was not enough. Actually it was way more than half. Like peaches they have to be thinned out so branches will not break. I think I need to place supports under the branches.
