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Weed-Digga

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Asparagus Crowns
« on: January 06, 2008, 21:59:47 »
Hi, advice needed please.

How many asparagus crowns can I fit in a bed 8ft x 4ft?
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Re: Asparagus Crowns
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2008, 22:30:58 »
If you plant them 12" apart in three rows set 18" apart and leave 6" from all edges, you should get 24; that's more or less how I planted mine up last year.
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Re: Asparagus Crowns
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2008, 23:41:53 »
Thanks Amazin - Ebay here I come!!
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« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2008, 01:36:35 »
Dunno what the offer is on eBay, Weed-Digga, but if you can hang on (there's still plenty of time for planting) Wilkinsons get their bulbs and tubers in soon. That's where I got my asparagus crowns from - packs of 3 crowns for £2.00 - they usually offer a choice of white or green spears (unnamed varieties).
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Re: Asparagus Crowns
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2008, 10:23:48 »
How many asparagus plants would you need to feed a family of 3 (who love asparagus)?
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Re: Asparagus Crowns
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2008, 11:01:31 »
In Wilkinsons the Asparagus - Connover's Collosal, is 2 for £2.49, bought ours from Blackland Plants Ebay shop 12 for £7. 40 plus £2 postage, when they arrived there was 18 crowns!

In B & Q they are selling 3 Gijnlim crowns for £2.99.
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Re: Asparagus Crowns
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2008, 19:00:01 »
I tried Wilkinson's asparagus a couple of years ago. Hardly any of it came up, and that didn't do anything.
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