I'm jelous of your patience with starting an Asparagus garden. Is it safe to weed around Asparagus? I'd be nervous about damaging the plants. And squashing the beetles... you are a beast! 😅
LOL! It's a gross job, but I get super annoyed if they fly away when I'm trying to just knock them in soapy water--So I make sure and get the job done with tiny beetles! (Japanese beetles are another story though...) When you plant asparagus roots you cover them with 6 inches of soil and as the first spears come through you continue to add an additional 4-6 inches of soil. So the roots are down deep. Weeding around them really is fine, but I prefer the idea of a living mulch to save me the effort! If I were to do it all over I would not have the bed 4 ft wide. It makes the strawberries hard to harvest out of the middle when the ferns have all grown up at the end of he asparagus harvest season.
I also started an asparagus garden about 3 yrs ago in a sunny,windy area after chopping down an old pine tree.This past late May and June I have harvested a number of spears.My problem has been deer.They raid my patch at nite and eat the tops or ferns where the seeds are as you know.They don't eat the spears thank goodness.Why do they do that when in the wild I have seen hundreds of plants that grow high and fern out you could say and the deer don't touch them. I did have a few plants that curved right away and then turned white or yellow and died.Is that bugs? thanks for this video and the idea of planting strawberries with them.I also realize that I could fence the area too.
Yes, When they curl like that it is usually bugs. I don't know how they grow in the wild! Sometimes I wonder how any of our cultivated crops exist because it seems like everything wants to kill them so bad!
I explained that I hand pick the beetles and squish them. I also offered the soapy water suggestion. If you have more ideas or experience please share them so we can all learn.
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I'm jelous of your patience with starting an Asparagus garden. Is it safe to weed around Asparagus? I'd be nervous about damaging the plants. And squashing the beetles... you are a beast! 😅
LOL! It's a gross job, but I get super annoyed if they fly away when I'm trying to just knock them in soapy water--So I make sure and get the job done with tiny beetles! (Japanese beetles are another story though...)
When you plant asparagus roots you cover them with 6 inches of soil and as the first spears come through you continue to add an additional 4-6 inches of soil. So the roots are down deep. Weeding around them really is fine, but I prefer the idea of a living mulch to save me the effort!
If I were to do it all over I would not have the bed 4 ft wide. It makes the strawberries hard to harvest out of the middle when the ferns have all grown up at the end of he asparagus harvest season.
I also started an asparagus garden about 3 yrs ago in a sunny,windy area after chopping down an old pine tree.This past late May and June I have harvested a number of spears.My problem has been deer.They raid my patch at nite and eat the tops or ferns where the seeds are as you know.They don't eat the spears thank goodness.Why do they do that when in the wild I have seen hundreds of plants that grow high and fern out you could say and the deer don't touch them. I did have a few plants that curved right away and then turned white or yellow and died.Is that bugs? thanks for this video and the idea of planting strawberries with them.I also realize that I could fence the area too.
Yes, When they curl like that it is usually bugs. I don't know how they grow in the wild! Sometimes I wonder how any of our cultivated crops exist because it seems like everything wants to kill them so bad!
I see spears thay are damaged when they emerge from the ground, I guess from grub damage.
Perhaps... I have not dealt with any like that.
Where’s the get rid of them part ? This is not how to grow asparagus .
I explained that I hand pick the beetles and squish them. I also offered the soapy water suggestion. If you have more ideas or experience please share them so we can all learn.