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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Weed-Digga on January 06, 2008, 21:59:47

Title: Asparagus Crowns
Post by: Weed-Digga on January 06, 2008, 21:59:47: Hi, advice needed please.

How many asparagus crowns can I fit in a bed 8ft x 4ft?
Title: Re: Asparagus Crowns
Post by: Amazin 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.
Title: Re: Asparagus Crowns
Post by: Weed-Digga on January 06, 2008, 23:41:53: Thanks Amazin - Ebay here I come!!
Title: Re: Asparagus Crowns
Post by: Amazin 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).
Title: Re: Asparagus Crowns
Post by: Rob08 on January 19, 2008, 10:23:48: How many asparagus plants would you need to feed a family of 3 (who love asparagus)?
Title: Re: Asparagus Crowns
Post by: Weed-Digga 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.
Title: Re: Asparagus Crowns
Post by: Robert_Brenchley 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.