Are there any asparagus experts out there?

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I've come a bit late to this, but here goes.....My crowns have been going for 35 years. I never water them, they are next to my JA's with no problems, and they only get mulched if I have compost to spare. My biggest problem is asparagus beetle,but not every year, this year I only caught a few right at the beginning (late march for me). So my conclusion is that once they get established nothing will stop them.

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[gray1720]

I'm delighted to hear that, small, I shall let mine get on with it! I've had asparagus for about 15 years, and 2020 was the first year I actually planted crowns - the rest has been retrieved from blown-in seedlings, which suffered badly in 2018. Mind you, so did almost everything else.

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Some of my most productive crowns are from self sets... If they aren't in the way I leave them to it.. they (self sets) get no attention but are a pleasant bonus.