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Title: Globe asparagus roots!
Post by: ninnyscrops on April 20, 2007, 21:39:54
Do not, I repeat do not let the frost have your globe asparagus plant. It's has taken me nearly an hour to dig the dead one out, the roots go on and on and on and on and on and on  :o
Title: Re: Globe asparagus roots!
Post by: ninnyscrops on April 20, 2007, 21:42:51
Of course I meant globe artichokes, doh!  Made you look though  ;D ;D ;D
(Just dreaming of asparagus....one day)
Title: Re: Globe asparagus roots!
Post by: Marymary on April 20, 2007, 22:21:52
I've been protecting mine all winter but they seem to be coping well on their own now.  I think they are supposed to be fairly hardy.  Wish I'd known about the extensive roots before as I've planted mine next to ne asparagus bed.    :(
Title: Re: Globe asparagus roots!
Post by: Jeannine on April 20, 2007, 22:26:43
I do't protect mine either but the books say you shoud XX Jeannine
Title: Re: Globe asparagus roots!
Post by: ninnyscrops on April 20, 2007, 22:43:22
I only lost one out of five so maybe it wasn't the frost but that was the most exposed one.  This one was the most successful one grown from seed too, it almost had a tree trunk in the middle but the others didn't and cropped the heaviest, even though I didn't harvest any!