Artichoke flower. Although these can be kept as perennials in my area I will be pulling these out when they're done flowering. For the amount of space they take up it is not worth what you get out of it. I used the area that I would have planted potatoes. We only got a couple of small artichokes and had I planted potatoes in this area we would have gotten well over 10 lb probably closer to 15 lb.
