Topic: Is it aparagus?

[lottie hobbit]

I'm restoring an allotment - once a grand herb garden but fallen on hard times for the past couple of seasons. In the middle of all the old weeds I've uncovered  a bed full of dried out feathery fronds, dare I hope asparagus? I've very gently cleaned off the top weeds, but what next?  ??? Shall I fertilise, put on a mulch, give it extra water?
What a lovely dilemma.

[BAGGY]

Could be ........ ours was, like you say feathery things on sticks with red berries here and there.  We done nothing to ours (other than harvest regularyly) and all was fine.  I think you do need to feed it but look it up on t'internet as I don't know what is best or when.

[Doris_Pinks]

Could also be fennel if it was a herb garden?

[tim]

Baggy - et al - red berries?  Meaning that:

a. You may have mostly female plants, which are less productive than male ones, &

b. the berries are tempting to the beetle.

http://www.uri.edu/ce/factsheets/sheets/asparagusbeetles.html

[BAGGY]

Never knew that about the berries.  Still can't complain as we had enough last year and it was a freebee.

[salad muncher]

I'm sure you can dig up the crowns to check split and move to where you like the aspargus to bethen you can make sure weed free and dress the soil also you may need to leave the first years harvest so as to feed the plant and not your belly.

[mm-b]

Hi
I dug up my asparagus without knowing what it was then replanted it. Its now all dead which is very sad.
Leave it and see what happens.
Melanie