Topic: Whatever type of Asparagus you grow .........

[tim]

....am I the only one where the shoots are pushing up 4" square blocks of 'concrete'.

A bad, bad year.  Pontificating gets one nowhere. Must stop it!!

[Jeannine]

Tim , my Cito

[tim]

Oh, so PERFECT!! Jealous.

PS But does not mean that it's the BEST??

[Marymary]

How many crowns are these from? I've just planted 10 & wondering what to expect next year!

[Jeannine]

Tim, Please don't be jealous, if I was a tenth the gardener you are I would be a very lucky lady

My asparagus bed is a wood framed foot tall one , filled with compost and potting soil,no regular earth at all, the plants don't have to compete with anything, they just push their  wee faces out, I have done nothing except give them a good place to grow.

I have twenty plants in a 4 foot by 22 foot  bed.

XX Jeannine

PS. You are right, I would have to line up a dozen varieties to figure out the best one . As long as we are each happy and we enjoy what we eat  it don't matter a fig does it Tim ?

[tim]

Nail on head!

[cambourne7]

Hi Jeannine,

wow 20 plants in 4ft by 22ft i think maybe my bed is a little full then!!

I have a 2ft by 10ft bed and intend to plant

5   - 2 year old crowns
10 - 1 year old wips
20 - seeds

I planting in 3 squares so that i know what i can eat when.

I only know the variaty of the seed asparagus which is mary washington.

I hope they will be ok in my prepared bed i have 3 wheelbarrow fulls of horse manure, a large bag of sand and a 100lr bag of farmyard manure. I have left it to the elements and will be adding about 4 or 5 wheelbarrows of compost on top and plant into it and intend to plant swan river dasies around the edge.

Mealwhile i have some woodchip rotting down and Oct i plan to top the bed off with wood chips as mulch and weed stopper. Which might overt the need for it to grow though concret :-)

cambourne7

[Jeannine]

I didn't do nearly as much as that Louise. We made the bed originally in the autumn and filled it with a potting soil and sand blend.  It did cost a fortune for the volume of potting soil though.I think we put manure in the bottom We left it till the plants came in the spring, then planted them and left them. I haven't fed it or done anything since, apart from weed and top up if the compost seems to go low, and in the autumn I chuck some manure on after the ferns die down. The plants are very prolific.  I think you will enjoy your asparagus, it is the first thing we usually get to eat along with tiny spuds from a box in the greenhouse and a few |Tumbler toms planted at Christmas. Bit of a ritual here, it is the first sign of a new year to me. XX Jeannine

[cambourne7]

wow sounds like you have it sorted.

Were lucky we get the horse manure free and the sand was left over.

[tim]

Whatever..............http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/photo04/asp.jpg

[Jitterbug]

Tim

That tiny writing is beyond even my verifocals.  Can't you re-scan a bit bigger please?

Jitterbug

[Joe11]

In my browser (mozilla firefox) if you click the image it makes it slightly bigger which is then readable for me

[tim]

You are doing it full screen? It fills my screen.

And then I can enlarge it?

[saddad]

A lot of mine is of the bendy style too!
 ;D

[telboy]

Missed a lot of mine, didn't visit the plot for 3 weeks & bang it was neally all passed it . But not quite.
had a few smelly wees!
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D