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 ;D After months of waiting at last the asparagus shoots have come through on thirty new crowns.  Was getting really worried that they were not coming up and was thinking about having another strawb patch in place of them next year.

Dont worry I know to leave them well alone this year and next only take a few spears.  Was just so pleased that they have now at last come up and look well and healthy.

oops just realised posted this in wrong place any chance a mod could bump it over to edible plants.

i thought the same with mine takes forever for them to pop there heads i allmost dug them up twice if it wasn't for a fellow plotholder saying wait another week and so on

I planted my crowns about 3 weeks ago - initially dug 6" or so of soil back over then realised I should be back filling a little at a time so skimmed a few inches back off.  Had a good look at the bed the other day and a few spears are up!  Tiny things and very thin, but it is encouraging so I gave them a nice feed. Probably about 3 shoots I can see so I hope the other crowns come through. Can I say that I got the crowns from TM Parkers they didn't look great when they arrived, so I was worried.  Fingers crossed.

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same here was a bit worried about the crowns being dry as a bone when I bought them.  A job I had been putting off handweeding the patch was also done this afternoon.  I now realise that their are about twenty shoots coming up so far.

were your crowns from Parkers too? 

no i got mine from Wilkinson 6 for £4 only have a couple of shoots so far but for a couple of quid not that bothered if they work well bonus if not i allways got something to replace them will get proper crowns for next year if not successfull

nah same here crowns from the range a local garden and household store.

im gonna try some from seed . wish me luck

I have a good bed of "Convers Colossal" which I raised from seed and despite having to transplant them all, when couch got in them when I was ill, they are going strong..   ;D

there is a good reason why im going to try from seed my Asparagus is more than 30 years old.
this year only two spears came up . but they came up strong . and i have let them grow to seed . .

i like growing from seed , growing from seed keeps me happy
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