So anyone planted asparagus??? Do you leave it in the garden for years or do you pull the crowns each year like daffodils????????
Think I might be in way over my head with this one......but we eat so much of it I figured it would be good to grow it instead of buy it.
So any advice would be greatly appreciated.....
Think I might be in way over my head with this one......but we eat so much of it I figured it would be good to grow it instead of buy it.
So any advice would be greatly appreciated.....
This is the bucket of potatoes I harvested without the garden fork the other day it was kind of therapeutic to dig in the dirt with my hands and come up with these.
I found loads more when I found the garden fork and dug over the beds on Sunday.
daisymum
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Hi. I found you from "Margarets Ramblings" G'day. Thought I would answer your question re. asparagus. Here in Queensland/Australia it is permanently left in the ground. Don't crop until the second season to give the crown time to build up strenght. Because we have such a great growing climate here, we crop several times a year with ours....giving it a rest in between. Best of luck....there is nothing like fresh asparagus. Mmmmm. and wandering past and breaking of a piece to nibble on while you are gardening. Yum :-)
Linda
'Morning D/mum - in England we have such a short season of asparagus. About a month mid May to mid June.....if you blink you miss it.
The crowns are left in the ground here and we don't usually crop any until they are about 3 years old. We just cut off the odd spear that appears before then because there's hardly enough worth muckying a pan for.
For me you have a fantastic meal just the asparagus and potatoes. For my hubby I usually roast some smoked pork loin as well.
Lucky lucky you!
Angie, x
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