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I have crowns that I bought last year... Not sure if they are still good. Kept them in original packaging in my pantry. I planted them yesterday, do you think they will still be able to grow?
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A little hint. Try to harvest out of the center of the plant and leave the outside spears to grow. That helps the plant crown expand and makes for a healthier plant.
In Germany as a young girl, it was my job to harvest my Grandfather's asparagus. He had very sandy soil in the suburbs of Frankfurt. He planted the trench, but built up a hill along the length of the hill. The hill stood about a foot above the garden base. As the asparagus tips showed through the hill, I used my first two fingers to form a V and put one finger on each side of the tip and pulled back the soil to expose the white asparagus and cut it off at the base with a sharp knife. Then I pushed the soil back into the hill and moved onto the next tip on both sides of the hill. Harvesting was done around 5: P.M. The next evening I was out there again collecting the asparagus. The hill was about 12 feet long. They grew everything in the way of herbs, fruits and veggies.
@@zachyates8440 It was only about 2 ft high at the top and maybe 2 ft wide with plants along each side. The soil was very sandy and easy to remove from around each stalk and then push back. The whole line of plants must have been about 10 ft long or so. He grew everything and used compost and peat moss. From AtoZ he grew it all. When the asparagus grew in the sandy hill, they stayed white. Exposed to the sunlight, they would turn green.
They grow on the sides of the road in Arthur Illinois. Amish country. When the seed trucks drive by the seeds fall to the side of the road. I got 4lbs of asparagus last year that way when visiting my brother in law.
Hey! We're in central Illinois too! We have a lot growing on the side of the road near me, too! There used to be an asparagus farm near here but they razed it for corn and soy.
I grow asparagus, sown from seed. I started in 2013 - 2015 and have about 50 plants in my garden. Last year I harvested fully. I love asparagus. This year I also have sown some seeds from my own plants. Not because I need more plants, but I will try if they germinate. Asparagus is a beach plant so they love seaweed and sand. I have sandy soil in the garden and I collect seaweed and use it as fertilizer and mulch. Best wishes from Norway.
The seed has not germinated yet, but they take some time. My plants are a variety that has both male and female plants. It is said that one should remove female plants because they do not produce as much as male plants. Asparagus crowns you buy I think are varieties that only have male plants and you get no seeds.
@@BenniLkitchengarden I may look at doing them from seed if i need to expand, So will have to look more into the male female ratio to ensure I get the best results
Oliver Claffey. I soaked the seeds for 24 hour before sowing, and they germinateded in 10 days. Maybe because they were my own fresh seeds. When I grew them from bought seeds it took about 30 days.
I live in the SE US. We have poor clay soil, so I just put the crowns on top of the ground in a raised bed and fill with dirt. I use compost and my neighbor's rabbits manure in the fall to fertilize. We grow potatoes basically the same way, but not in a contained bed and using mulch, grass clippings and ash from our grill. Best potatoes ever! You have a lovely channel. Thanks!
I planted 24 asparagus plants in 2016, and started harvesting last year. When people saw me coming from my allotment with a nice bundle of asparagus, they were all surprised that asparagus could grow in this hard clay soil. The plants are doing great, in fact the asparagus patch is the only planting I did not water at all in extremely dry 2018. Everything else got watered regularly, grapes, figs, hardy kiwi, even young fruit trees, but the asparagus I totally dry farmed and it did great.
That's reassuring! I planted mine in a VERY sandy hill. I amended with peat/coconut coir, worm castings, biotone, and some muriate of potash. The largest, oldest asparagus plant I ever saw was up on a bank on a beach.
I've grown asparagus for about 26 or 27 years now. I grew crowns from seed in the greenhouse, and planted them out at the end of their second year: I dug a trench about four feet deep (we have very poor, heavy clay soil), and back-filled it with well-rotted stable muck. I built an eight-inch raised border around it, and every autumn top it off with more dung. The original plants are still producing, and I've allowed some to produce seed, and have left that to germinate in the bed. Given time (about twenty years), it will start to spread.
I have grown asparagus from seed,. I was completely ignorant but my husband was enthusiastic about it, so I bought the seeds. I have about 18 plants and they are now about 18 months old. We are now in the heart of summer. I am relieved that they don't need much water. Thank you for this enlightening video.. Can't wait to eat the crop!
I planted about 20 crowns about 24 years ago. Still producing well. I have a sandy soil so ti does do better with some extra watering. It seems to resow itself too, so there are always new tiny plants coming up if I don't accidentally till it under. I'm in southeast Wisconsin, in the US.
My sister picked a bunch of asparagus yesterday on our northern Iowa family farm. This patch has been growing for over 40 years. It likes the rich black soil. Years ago when my dad was still alive, he would find wild asparagus in the ditches along the country roads. They were his secret spots. Our garden asparagus patch comes up every year in the spring, after our cold snowy winters. As a child, I didn't care for the taste of asparagus, but as an adult, I love it!!! It's fun to find new recipes online and try them. My latest recipe is baked asparagus fries in Panko. My sister made that for her husband and me last night. It was very delicious!!!
I remember my grandfathers asparagus rows. He would take the digger over the row every year right away before weeds and the spears would get damaged as they were already growing. The first spears always came up looking rough but still edible.
Thanks again! I've never grown asparagus but one of my grandsons loves it so going to try it. I don't have lots of garden space but I will fit in a small area of it. Your videos are great; I am learning. Thanks for sharing! Blessings!🌱🍅🌱🌽🌱🍓🌱🌹
Melody, I really appreciate the compliments. I really hope you can try and fit a couple in, even if its just enough for the odd meal here and there, they are really worth it
I just watched this video for first time. So informative & direct. So appreciatied! I have thought about growing asparagus; now I WILL grow it This video was just what I needed to bump me into going for it. BTW, this video was just the right length and content was easily digested. Thanks!
This was very helpful, started only 20 crowns three years ago but planed them incorrectly and only have 4 plants this year. I am starting again, this time with your method. I was curious when to cut the high growth back. Thank you for your work and sharing it!
Glad it was helpful! Leave the growth until it does back you will know when its died then cut it and leave it on the ground as a mulch to protect them during the winter
I was just wandering about the time of harvesting. Here in South Africa it is common to harvest them as "white" shoots because they are still underneath the soil and enable to be influence by photosenthesis and are therefore still white in colour. These are usually tinned in factories and are delicious. One trick is to "ridge" your beds to make sure you get cuttings of at least 12-15cm long. You also get a special tool that you press into the soil next to the asparagus and then twist it to cut it!! To harvest white asparagus you have to do it dayly to prevent green parts on it. Try it it is far more delicious than the green one. Greetings from Sout Africa!!
I have tried asparagus a few years back...I only managed to keep it alive for a few years, and didn't get to harvest much. Good video. I would like to give it another shot. 👍
30 plants is indeed plenty enough for a small family, otherwise one gets tired of the stuff and sometimes it goes to waste for not getting around to using it all. I lucked out when planting mine, the best deep humus rich soil just happened to be where I had intended to situate the asparagus, and that also is very nearby to the compost pile!😊
Hello, thank you for this edition. It's good for me. My partner and I planted 84 asparagus wreaths this spring. Unfortunately they weren't as big and beautiful as yours. Everything happened in Romania, but in a month I return back to the Kingdom. Please, let me know, a supplier of F1 hybrid asparagus. I am looking forward to your next editions. Enjoy. PS: next Monday I will also install the drip irrigation line
Thanks for this video. I grew up in a house that had an established asparagus garden. I have just purchased plants and am looking forward to my new garden.
APRIL: I have just planted 20 dormant asparagus plants in 2 areas. That was the easy bit. Digging each trench turned out to be an unforeseen lot of hard work. Had deep invasive roots in first trench from bordering plants that were 3feet away, couldn't believe those thick, dense, woody roots travelled so far from their mother plant. That trench took one weekend of painful deep digging. The second trench in another area found old bricks and stones about 10 inches down from a Victorian dumping site. That trench took another weekend of painful digging. On the bright side, all 20 plants are now settled and watered in and I look forward to any growth activity above ground. It will all be worth it in the end I know, but so glad I did the digging in my 50s, not in my 70s! I was amazed at the 'alien' tentacle roots of the asparagus plant, no wonder they take 2-3 years to get established, they're so weird. Thanks for the growing tips, & no wonder you got Liz around to help... :)
I planted six crowns three years ago, and this year Ive had a first bumper crop! Delicious! I have a very small garden but it is worth it to have them.
I love asparagus! I've grown it for years and can't get enough of it. Most of it doesn't make it past the garden because I'll eat it as soon as I pick it. lolol So this year I'm starting 40 more from seed. Three years is a long time to wait for that delicious goodness but it is well worth it. Thank You and Much Love
Jan You Reap What You Sow. but even better because the best things come to those who wait. If you have a garden then you dont intend to give it up so plant for the future too :)
Yes, I did grow some one spring.. the next spring I had asparagus to eat .. I did not know you weren’t supposed to eat it the first year..or ether I forgot.. anyway, the following year and even now this year I got asparagus. I like your method. Thanks for sharing.🥰
Mine are 4 years old this year ☺️ I'm thinking of doing another bed where did you get yours from ? Great video 😍 Easy to grow by seed too, just takes 3 years before you get a good crop 😊 Happy growing Annette x
This is a superb video Tony. Been thinking about Asparagus but as you point out, its a commitment giving ground to it and I've not yet decided on that area. Love the taste of it so it will almost certainly be part of my veg for the future. Thank you so much for showing us the trench for the crowns, information that is so useful!
Thank You. We just planted our Asparagus for the first time two weeks ago. We are so surprised to see shoots coming up. Can't wait to harvest in two years.
Really good upload regarding this 20 year perennial... I liked and I shared... Very tempted to have a go at it now and will take a look and see where they may fit into the double plot... Cant wait for the weekend now Tony... Got a lot of work to do and the weather is so fine... Cheers for the great upload mate. Take Care Tony
I watched this video in long as it very much. At the end, you are given information about how to feed the plants for the upcoming year however I did not hear what I was supposed to be adding to the rows, something about 1 to 1 and 1/2 pounds per 100 square feet. The problem is I never caught what was supposed to be added. I tried to listen to it several times but I never could make it out. Can you please get back with me about what it was? I'm looking forward to using your method. Thank you in advance for your response.
I soak mine in between a soaked paper towel. I put them in a Tupperware bowl with the lid on for a little over a week until they popped open. Roots we're about 1/4 in long. Then planted them and the sprouted in 3 days.
Cheers for pointing it out Brian, I did add it further down in the comments, You need a balanced dry feed, something that has NPK of 10-10-10 and spring 1 to 1.5lbs around them for up to 100 square feet
The 30 year old end of my asparagus bed in Oregon still produces, though I'll begin replacing crowns this year. Any crop without yearly digging is my kind of crop.
You are by far the best advice for gardening , much appreciated guestion: my new asparagus bed is with two yr old crowns, I used some straw that was full of grass and seeds. Now almost every asparagus produced one shoot but its a grass weed bed now. Can I cover it all with compost and cardboard this fall to kill the weeds and will the asparagus be ok? Much appreciated
We've got an Asparagus bed. Planted Crowns of 'Jersey Supreme', and 'Purple Passion'. 'Purple Passion' seems to love our soil/climate. 'Jersey Supreme', not so much. I just over planted the Jersey supreme with a hundred crowns of Purple Passion. Being real lazy, I laid the crowns out, and then mulched over them. I'll add more mulch as they emerge, to at least six inches. We've a very clay soil, so planting above, and mulching, seems to work well. Love Asparagus. I'm going to do an experiment with half the bed, and not harvest through July. Then I'll mow it down. I hope to get a Fall crop. I think it will work, having seen Wild Asparagus sprout lovely stalks after being mowed.
Love your video! Have a question....i work at a nursing home where an old farmer told me to frequently pour epsom salts straight on my asparagus plants. He said the more the better. I have done so for couple of years and havent seen a big change. Still get about same amount of spears every year. Have u ever heard anything like this?
Toni epsom salts helps with adding magnesium to the ground it helps with flower production and with ensuring the plants stay green. Adding it constantly isnt good though it is beneficial if plants seem to be losing colour which would show a deficiency but more often or not it is not required and the reason why you are not seeing results
I just planted 3 plants. You say I need a lot more...WOW. 30 plants. I don't have any room to dedicate to that. I hope my 3 plants will be sufficient for me.
Thanks for the tips and tricks to growing asparagus the wife and I love it and we are going to plan to grow some next year... How much direct sunlight do they need daily ?
Great video, thank you very much. I've planted two set of asparagus over two years and of the 25 crowns I've planted only half have come up. I don't think I've done anything wrong but I have noticed that the crowns I planted only had four or five small roots compared to your MASSIVE crowns with lots of healthy looking roots! No wonder some of mine failed. Where do you get your crowns from please? (UK only)
Hey thanks, we have quite a few people from Germany subscribed now, Its great to have you all here and joining in the conversation. Thanks for stopping by, hope you decide to stick around
Loving the video and you delivery! - I dont mean to catch you out (and I hope I've misunderstood) but at 3:56 you say 'water 2 inches every two weeks and then after a year, once established, drop that down to once every two weeks' !?!? - Is that not the same thing??? - as I'm loving your advice and I want to follow it carefully, I wanted to check. Thanks so much!! Carl
BOSTIN Tony, just got my first plot and my wife absolutely loves asparagus . When is the best time to plant out a crown, and where can I get the best from ,also what is the best variety?so for all the questions. 🤯 Thanks for the info in advance, it's a great help to a newbie to gardening. 👍Robbo
I have just prepared a few raised beds for my asparagus that will be delivered shortly, I have lined the base with newspaper then horse muck then fresh store-bought compost, this will give the bed time to settle before I throw in the crowns and provide good nutrients to them from the start, as raised beds are generally dryer than in-ground and warm up faster in the spring this will help prevent crown rot, I can also attach a support frame directly to the bed for then they grow tall during the summer months
What great video. Oklahoma here with red clay soil. I moved into a house that had a plot come up in March here. Shocked! But grateful! I love asparagus ❤️ I really didn’t ‘do’ anything. It rains a lot from(early Feb?) March to August and very hot and humid. They lasted till about June. I harvest and let it grow over (what I’d read). But the gophers eventually got them or they got old and grown over with grass. Don’t know old they were but they came back for three years. Then nothing? I just bought crowns (August) and wondered if I wait till September (cooler here) and grow them in raised beds (no gophers) they would live longer. Already have a green thumb and plenty natural fertilizer (horses). Should I still use bone meal and (??) to help them live longer? Thanx in advance. Ginger :-)
I'm on my 6th year on my asparagus. All I do is put out a couple of inches of compost, then 4-5 in of mulch in the spring right before they sprout. That's all I do. I don't baby them, by giving them any special like a protected area to overwinter. All I do is chop the dead fronds off after the first couple of freezes. I always mean to mulch them, but always forget. It gets below 0 F for much of the winter, and they regrow just fine. I've been picking every other day since the end of March, and will probably stop mid May, getting plenty enough from the original 24 crowns to feed my family enough to supply a good sized side dish every other day. If you pick the right variety they will self sow. I grow Mary Washington. Right now I have newly sprouted plants sitting right alongside my 6 yr olds. They are left alone by the rodents and rabbits that visit from the nearby farmland. I'm not sure of anything else since those are my primary pests. Birds like the berries too. I've seen sprouts from my asparagus all around my neighborhood. I've even been known to complement their asparagus, and warn them that if they want to keep it, let it grow for a year or 2, then move it to a place where they can handle a 6-7 ft plant
Years ago when I was growing asparagus I discovered that they grow really quick. I observed over a short period of time( about 4 days ). I measured one stock of asparagus over this period of time and discovered they can grow several inches an hour. The one spear I was watching grew about four inches and hour over the observation period. However there was another spear very close to the I was watching that was shorter than the one I was watching in the beginning grew taller than the one I was watching when I stopped the observation of the spear I was measuring. I discovered that I go several times a day to harvest asparagus. Wait too long the asparagus would go to flower.
I found 3 old plants on a gra el pig that used to be a farm. I dug them up and lugged them home. Who knows how old they are 😄. I also planted some seeds to add more plants for the years to come. I have grown from seed before. Only stayed on that house for 5 years so hopefully the new owners appreciated the huge asparagus patch I left them.
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I jus planted my asparagus in pots with worm castings. Gonna remove the trays so they don't rot. Good video 👍
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I have crowns that I bought last year... Not sure if they are still good. Kept them in original packaging in my pantry. I planted them yesterday, do you think they will still be able to grow?
Kudos for the video content! Excuse me for butting in, I am interested in your opinion. Have you considered - Fanabraal Toned Tiraspol (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now)? It is a smashing one off guide for sliming down naturally without exercise minus the normal expense. Ive heard some great things about it and my friend at last got amazing success with it.
A little hint. Try to harvest out of the center of the plant and leave the outside spears to grow. That helps the plant crown expand and makes for a healthier plant.
Thank you. Nice
Thank you
In Germany as a young girl, it was my job to harvest my Grandfather's asparagus. He had very sandy soil in the suburbs of Frankfurt. He planted the trench, but built up a hill along the length of the hill. The hill stood about a foot above the garden base. As the asparagus tips showed through the hill, I used my first two fingers to form a V and put one finger on each side of the tip and pulled back the soil to expose the white asparagus and cut it off at the base with a sharp knife. Then I pushed the soil back into the hill and moved onto the next tip on both sides of the hill. Harvesting was done around 5: P.M. The next evening I was out there again collecting the asparagus. The hill was about 12 feet long. They grew everything in the way of herbs, fruits and veggies.
Those sorts of memories are worth gold, hold on to them
Was the hill a hugelkultur mound?
@@zachyates8440 It was only about 2 ft high at the top and maybe 2 ft wide with plants along each side. The soil was very sandy and easy to remove from around each stalk and then push back. The whole line of plants must have been about 10 ft long or so. He grew everything and used compost and peat moss. From AtoZ he grew it all. When the asparagus grew in the sandy hill, they stayed white. Exposed to the sunlight, they would turn green.
They grow on the sides of the road in Arthur Illinois. Amish country. When the seed trucks drive by the seeds fall to the side of the road. I got 4lbs of asparagus last year that way when visiting my brother in law.
Hey! We're in central Illinois too! We have a lot growing on the side of the road near me, too! There used to be an asparagus farm near here but they razed it for corn and soy.
I grow asparagus, sown from seed. I started in 2013 - 2015 and have about 50 plants in my garden. Last year I harvested fully. I love asparagus. This year I also have sown some seeds from my own plants. Not because I need more plants, but I will try if they germinate. Asparagus is a beach plant so they love seaweed and sand. I have sandy soil in the garden and I collect seaweed and use it as fertilizer and mulch.
Best wishes from Norway.
Benni Seaweed is a fantastic fertiliser and i use it a lot too. Great idea to keep your own seed
The seed has not germinated yet, but they take some time. My plants are a variety that has both male and female plants. It is said that one should remove female plants because they do not produce as much as male plants. Asparagus crowns you buy I think are varieties that only have male plants and you get no seeds.
@@BenniLkitchengarden I may look at doing them from seed if i need to expand, So will have to look more into the male female ratio to ensure I get the best results
Hi Benin, just planted seeds in pots last week. How long do they take to peep out. In cold greenhouse. Thanks
Oliver Claffey. I soaked the seeds for 24 hour before sowing, and they germinateded in 10 days. Maybe because they were my own fresh seeds. When I grew them from bought seeds it took about 30 days.
I had a great day at your plot Tony, thank you for the shout out. I'm looking forward to seeing the asparagus grow over the coming years!
Will be fantastic to be able to harvest those too Liz :) Always welcome for the shout out
Hope you can share in on some of the asparagus since you helped.
I live in the SE US. We have poor clay soil, so I just put the crowns on top of the ground in a raised bed and fill with dirt. I use compost and my neighbor's rabbits manure in the fall to fertilize. We grow potatoes basically the same way, but not in a contained bed and using mulch, grass clippings and ash from our grill. Best potatoes ever!
You have a lovely channel. Thanks!
I planted 24 asparagus plants in 2016, and started harvesting last year. When people saw me coming from my allotment with a nice bundle of asparagus, they were all surprised that asparagus could grow in this hard clay soil. The plants are doing great, in fact the asparagus patch is the only planting I did not water at all in extremely dry 2018. Everything else got watered regularly, grapes, figs, hardy kiwi, even young fruit trees, but the asparagus I totally dry farmed and it did great.
Yeah when planted right they send their roots down well and this gives them access to moisture you dont get normally
That's reassuring! I planted mine in a VERY sandy hill. I amended with peat/coconut coir, worm castings, biotone, and some muriate of potash. The largest, oldest asparagus plant I ever saw was up on a bank on a beach.
Asparagus grows like a weed where I live. It's on the side of the roads, in our yard, everywhere! Something I'm very thankful for! :)
Wow how lucky is that
Eric wow!!🤠what area are you in!?
What area
@@annabeejones5147 South Dakota!
I saw a wild plant on roadside in KS...I was tempted to dig it up & take it home.
I've grown asparagus for about 26 or 27 years now. I grew crowns from seed in the greenhouse, and planted them out at the end of their second year: I dug a trench about four feet deep (we have very poor, heavy clay soil), and back-filled it with well-rotted stable muck. I built an eight-inch raised border around it, and every autumn top it off with more dung. The original plants are still producing, and I've allowed some to produce seed, and have left that to germinate in the bed. Given time (about twenty years), it will start to spread.
Yeah they are such long lasting plants
Your voice is so pleasant, Tony, you really don’t need any background music- in fact, the music is a bit distracting, to be honest.
Its very annoying. I couldn't finish watching. I also dislike when YTers tell me to make sure to watch to the end. That's only for watch time.
I agree. Hate background music
Have you ever tried turning the volume off? I have mine off all the time unless there's something I want to listen to.
My thoughts exactly👍
@@maryanny80 Can you read lips??? I can’t. How else will I be able to HEAR what he’s saying?
I would love to grow asparagus, it’s why I looked for your video. Thank you for the valuable information.
I have grown asparagus from seed,. I was completely ignorant but my husband was enthusiastic about it, so I bought the seeds. I have about 18 plants and they are now about 18 months old. We are now in the heart of summer. I am relieved that they don't need much water. Thank you for this enlightening video.. Can't wait to eat the crop!
I have grown asparagus before but am starting a new bed at my new place. Definitely learned from your video. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
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Thanks for the great tips. My asparagus needs to be fed and now I know how to do it.
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I planted about 20 crowns about 24 years ago. Still producing well. I have a sandy soil so ti does do better with some extra watering. It seems to resow itself too, so there are always new tiny plants coming up if I don't accidentally till it under. I'm in southeast Wisconsin, in the US.
That is excellent always great to here others producing well over time
My sister picked a bunch of asparagus yesterday on our northern Iowa family farm. This patch has been growing for over 40 years. It likes the rich black soil. Years ago when my dad was still alive, he would find wild asparagus in the ditches along the country roads. They were his secret spots. Our garden asparagus patch comes up every year in the spring, after our cold snowy winters. As a child, I didn't care for the taste of asparagus, but as an adult, I love it!!! It's fun to find new recipes online and try them. My latest recipe is baked asparagus fries in Panko. My sister made that for her husband and me last night. It was very delicious!!!
Wow thats awesome. nothing like that here
do share the recipe :)
I remember my grandfathers asparagus rows.
He would take the digger over the row every year right away before weeds and the spears would get damaged as they were already growing. The first spears always came up looking rough but still edible.
I am growing 10 purple asparagus plants in a new bed in my city backyard garden. Thanks for your advice!
Thats great Marco, Let me know how they do for you
Thanks again! I've never grown asparagus but one of my grandsons loves it so going to try it. I don't have lots of garden space but I will fit in a small area of it. Your videos are great; I am learning. Thanks for sharing! Blessings!🌱🍅🌱🌽🌱🍓🌱🌹
Melody, I really appreciate the compliments. I really hope you can try and fit a couple in, even if its just enough for the odd meal here and there, they are really worth it
I just watched this video for first time. So informative & direct. So appreciatied! I have thought about growing asparagus; now I WILL grow it This video was just what I needed to bump me into going for it. BTW, this video was just the right length and content was easily digested. Thanks!
Thanks Kimberley glad you enjoyed it
This was very helpful, started only 20 crowns three years ago but planed them incorrectly and only have 4 plants this year. I am starting again, this time with your method. I was curious when to cut the high growth back. Thank you for your work and sharing it!
Glad it was helpful! Leave the growth until it does back you will know when its died then cut it and leave it on the ground as a mulch to protect them during the winter
Flamin heck, those are great crowns!!
Yes they are fantastic quality Clare. Always helps to start with good things if you can
2 of the best gardeners well done
Thanks
I was just wandering about the time of harvesting. Here in South Africa it is common to harvest them as "white" shoots because they are still underneath the soil and enable to be influence by photosenthesis and are therefore still white in colour. These are usually tinned in factories and are delicious. One trick is to "ridge" your beds to make sure you get cuttings of at least 12-15cm long. You also get a special tool that you press into the soil next to the asparagus and then twist it to cut it!! To harvest white asparagus you have to do it dayly to prevent green parts on it. Try it it is far more delicious than the green one. Greetings from Sout Africa!!
Between may and july
I have tried asparagus a few years back...I only managed to keep it alive for a few years, and didn't get to harvest much. Good video. I would like to give it another shot. 👍
Give it a go again and let me know how you get on
30 plants is indeed plenty enough for a small family, otherwise one gets tired of the stuff and sometimes it goes to waste for not getting around to using it all. I lucked out when planting mine, the best deep humus rich soil just happened to be where I had intended to situate the asparagus, and that also is very nearby to the compost pile!😊
Perfect
Hello, thank you for this edition. It's good for me. My partner and I planted 84 asparagus wreaths this spring. Unfortunately they weren't as big and beautiful as yours. Everything happened in Romania, but in a month I return back to the Kingdom. Please, let me know, a supplier of F1 hybrid asparagus.
I am looking forward to your next editions. Enjoy.
PS: next Monday I will also install the drip irrigation line
Thanks for this video. I grew up in a house that had an established asparagus garden. I have just purchased plants and am looking forward to my new garden.
Sounds great! I bet you cant wait
Hello from the U. S. I enjoyed you video. It was very straightforward and made it look so easy to grow my favorite veggie. 💖Psalm 91
Thanks you will have to try and give it a go
Here from Vegas it's hard finding plants that do well in this environment but I'll try this asparagus!!
Its hot there. let me know how it does for you Angel
Perfect timing Tony - we've got ours arriving in a couple of weeks and I want to be sure we've got everything ready before they get here. Thank you!
Jane I will look forward to your video getting them in, then we can harvest at the same time :)
We threw some asparagus out the front door at my folks' house about 20 years ago, it still grows in the flowerbed every year.
Wow. Now thats easy lol
APRIL: I have just planted 20 dormant asparagus plants in 2 areas. That was the easy bit. Digging each trench turned out to be an unforeseen lot of hard work. Had deep invasive roots in first trench from bordering plants that were 3feet away, couldn't believe those thick, dense, woody roots travelled so far from their mother plant. That trench took one weekend of painful deep digging. The second trench in another area found old bricks and stones about 10 inches down from a Victorian dumping site. That trench took another weekend of painful digging. On the bright side, all 20 plants are now settled and watered in and I look forward to any growth activity above ground. It will all be worth it in the end I know, but so glad I did the digging in my 50s, not in my 70s! I was amazed at the 'alien' tentacle roots of the asparagus plant, no wonder they take 2-3 years to get established, they're so weird. Thanks for the growing tips, & no wonder you got Liz around to help... :)
Wow but they are done now
I planted six crowns three years ago, and this year Ive had a first bumper crop! Delicious! I have a very small garden but it is worth it to have them.
Awesome David i will be looking forward to some next year
Thank you this video is off 2 my sister she is daft over asparagus. Fantastic information and easily understood.
Thanks Shirley, Does your sister grow?
@@simplifygardening We both grow to keep us out of the grocery stores and freeze and can our goodies for all winter.
I love asparagus! I've grown it for years and can't get enough of it. Most of it doesn't make it past the garden because I'll eat it as soon as I pick it. lolol So this year I'm starting 40 more from seed. Three years is a long time to wait for that delicious goodness but it is well worth it. Thank You and Much Love
Jan You Reap What You Sow. but even better because the best things come to those who wait. If you have a garden then you dont intend to give it up so plant for the future too :)
Yes, I did grow some one spring.. the next spring I had asparagus to eat .. I did not know you weren’t supposed to eat it the first year..or ether I forgot.. anyway, the following year and even now this year I got asparagus. I like your method. Thanks for sharing.🥰
Really enjoyed your video thank you very much.Not only are enjoying I learned also
Oh Thanks so much. I am really glad it was of interest to you :)
Thanks Tony, Growing my first crop this year and doing it your way.
Fantastic SMN brill stuff
Mine are 4 years old this year ☺️ I'm thinking of doing another bed where did you get yours from ? Great video 😍 Easy to grow by seed too, just takes 3 years before you get a good crop 😊 Happy growing Annette x
They are fantastic Mine came from Thomson and Morgan Annette
You with your nibble fingers , enthusiasm make everything look so simple . I am sure its lot of hard work.Thanks
Thanks a lot
This is a superb video Tony. Been thinking about Asparagus but as you point out, its a commitment giving ground to it and I've not yet decided on that area. Love the taste of it so it will almost certainly be part of my veg for the future. Thank you so much for showing us the trench for the crowns, information that is so useful!
Glad its of help to you :) your wise holding off until you have the ground thats perfect for them
Asparagustastic
Love it Mark :)
Thank You. We just planted our Asparagus for the first time two weeks ago. We are so surprised to see shoots coming up. Can't wait to harvest in two years.
Wonderful! dont pick for 3 years mind
3 years?! Now I understand why it's so friggin expensive to buy at the grocery store! Never knew they grew this way, so fascinating!
I agree 3 years is a little long
great video-informative and not full of fluff.
Glad you liked it!
Grows wild here... Its great
Wow how lucky is that
I love asparagus!
A great vegetable Sanches :)
Really good upload regarding this 20 year perennial... I liked and I shared... Very tempted to have a go at it now and will take a look and see where they may fit into the double plot... Cant wait for the weekend now Tony... Got a lot of work to do and the weather is so fine... Cheers for the great upload mate.
Take Care
Tony
Tony you really should get a few and plant them up mate they will be great to have harvest after harvest
No Prostrate Cancer wit goodly intake of these baby's Tone... I'm Sold... Gotta source the roots now mat.. Cheers@@simplifygardening
@@thelittlefarmersfarm5706 yes full of good stuff
Seriously going to give it a go now i've watched this.
Thats excellent Lesley. Let me know how you get on
@@simplifygardening Will do, Tony.
3,000 roots and counting. Yes we sell some. It's my favorite time of year. Sure sign of spring.
Wow thats a huge amount Brandon
Thanks for sharing Tony! Great video!
glad you enjoyed it :) Hapy New Year
Don’t know how I’m here but I like it
welcome to the channel
I watched this video in long as it very much. At the end, you are given information about how to feed the plants for the upcoming year however I did not hear what I was supposed to be adding to the rows, something about 1 to 1 and 1/2 pounds per 100 square feet. The problem is I never caught what was supposed to be added. I tried to listen to it several times but I never could make it out. Can you please get back with me about what it was? I'm looking forward to using your method. Thank you in advance for your response.
Sorry Donna i think id mistakenly cut it in the ediy. Add blood fish and bone meal
Thank you. I also couldn’t figure it out. Glad he put a response in. 😁
@@simplifygardening Sorry but where the heck do you get that? I don't even know what a blood fish is:)
@@MissWitchiepoo I think he might mean blood and bone - you can get it in the hardware or gardening stores in powder form...stinks but works a treat!!
THANKSGIVING
I haven't got enough space at the moment but sounds great
Great tips! Going to plant asparagus for the first time today 😀
I have grown Asparagus in 2010 and I get 6 plants every year, I put mulch on them that's all Thanks Tony for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks Patrick, Do you have many spears mate?
My neighbor had a mondo crop. He mulched heavily with peanut hulls. ???
Never heard of that
Very helpful Tony
Glad you think so!
I soak mine in between a soaked paper towel. I put them in a Tupperware bowl with the lid on for a little over a week until they popped open. Roots we're about 1/4 in long. Then planted them and the sprouted in 3 days.
Thank you for sharing how to plant aspragus
You are welcome
Now I’ve watched your channel, I’m going to give it a go next year. It’s one of our favourite veg. What do you feed them with Tony? Thanks.
Hi Tony! I wanted to tell you that I have planted my asparagus crowns today!!! Thanks alot For your Tutorial! Hope it will work!
Wait a few weeks you will see some of those spears stick their head through and your golden
Great, thank you! Do you need to harden the plants before planting them out?
Perfect timing! I have 3 crowns here ready for planting, and about 20 seedlings. Thanks Tony 🌺
Thats perfect. So many folks planting them this year. We are all going to swapped in them in a few years :)
I always believed it was really tough to grow asparagus, def gonna give it a shot
Tony, could you add the missing feed info to the description? Another great UKHWG video too btw 👍🏻👍🏻
Cheers for pointing it out Brian, I did add it further down in the comments, You need a balanced dry feed, something that has NPK of 10-10-10 and spring 1 to 1.5lbs around them for up to 100 square feet
The 30 year old end of my asparagus bed in Oregon still produces, though I'll begin replacing crowns this year. Any crop without yearly digging is my kind of crop.
Thats great you got 30 years out of the plants. awesome.
Thanks for info
Love your vid, thank you for the tips Tony.
You are by far the best advice for gardening , much appreciated guestion: my new asparagus bed is with two yr old crowns, I used some straw that was full of grass and seeds. Now almost every asparagus produced one shoot but its a grass weed bed now. Can I cover it all with compost and cardboard this fall to kill the weeds and will the asparagus be ok? Much appreciated
We've got an Asparagus bed. Planted Crowns of 'Jersey Supreme', and 'Purple Passion'. 'Purple Passion' seems to love our soil/climate. 'Jersey Supreme', not so much. I just over planted the Jersey supreme with a hundred crowns of Purple Passion. Being real lazy, I laid the crowns out, and then mulched over them. I'll add more mulch as they emerge, to at least six inches. We've a very clay soil, so planting above, and mulching, seems to work well. Love Asparagus. I'm going to do an experiment with half the bed, and not harvest through July. Then I'll mow it down. I hope to get a Fall crop. I think it will work, having seen Wild Asparagus sprout lovely stalks after being mowed.
Love your video! Have a question....i work at a nursing home where an old farmer told me to frequently pour epsom salts straight on my asparagus plants. He said the more the better. I have done so for couple of years and havent seen a big change. Still get about same amount of spears every year. Have u ever heard anything like this?
Toni epsom salts helps with adding magnesium to the ground it helps with flower production and with ensuring the plants stay green. Adding it constantly isnt good though it is beneficial if plants seem to be losing colour which would show a deficiency but more often or not it is not required and the reason why you are not seeing results
@@simplifygardening awesome!! Thank you for quick response. I will learn alot from you! Keep those videos coming 😍
I love asparagus. Would have it every night if I could! Great video Tony
Thanks Shaun Hopefully will give great crops in a couple of years
I just planted 3 plants. You say I need a lot more...WOW. 30 plants. I don't have any room to dedicate to that. I hope my 3 plants will be sufficient for me.
You can always add as you go
its in my top 10 dream garden crops
Get some planted and see how they so Virginia
Awesome video! Subbed from Atlanta, GA, USA
Hey Zein, Welcome to the channel. hope you enjoy it here and if I can help let me know. Sorry for the late reply I have had some personal issues
@@simplifygardening No problem at all. Thank you for replying! Watching your tomato videos now.
Thanks for the tips and tricks to growing asparagus the wife and I love it and we are going to plan to grow some next year... How much direct sunlight do they need daily ?
Helpful for getting started 😅
When you talk about feeding them you said how much but not what to feed them. ?
We’re starting asparagus for the first time this year. Thank you for this video. ~Heather
Thanks Heather. I look forward to seeing your first harvests as I harvest mine :)
Great video, thank you very much.
I've planted two set of asparagus over two years and of the 25 crowns I've planted only half have come up. I don't think I've done anything wrong but I have noticed that the crowns I planted only had four or five small roots compared to your MASSIVE crowns with lots of healthy looking roots! No wonder some of mine failed.
Where do you get your crowns from please? (UK only)
thank you
Thanks!
I´m from north Germany, but cool channel keep it up bro
Hey thanks, we have quite a few people from Germany subscribed now, Its great to have you all here and joining in the conversation. Thanks for stopping by, hope you decide to stick around
Loving the video and you delivery! - I dont mean to catch you out (and I hope I've misunderstood) but at 3:56 you say 'water 2 inches every two weeks and then after a year, once established, drop that down to once every two weeks' !?!? - Is that not the same thing??? - as I'm loving your advice and I want to follow it carefully, I wanted to check. Thanks so much!! Carl
Your right he did say that. Not sure what he meant to say.
BOSTIN Tony, just got my first plot and my wife absolutely loves asparagus . When is the best time to plant out a crown, and where can I get the best from ,also what is the best variety?so for all the questions. 🤯 Thanks for the info in advance, it's a great help to a newbie to gardening. 👍Robbo
In the spring after the ground has warmed a littlr
I have just prepared a few raised beds for my asparagus that will be delivered shortly, I have lined the base with newspaper then horse muck then fresh store-bought compost, this will give the bed time to settle before I throw in the crowns and provide good nutrients to them from the start,
as raised beds are generally dryer than in-ground and warm up faster in the spring this will help prevent crown rot,
I can also attach a support frame directly to the bed for then they grow tall during the summer months
Awesome good luck with them
Thank you for the great video mate!
your welcome
Just planted some last spring,
As always you explained it great but I'm not going to replant but you did great
Thanks
Good luck!
♥️ from California
What great video. Oklahoma here with red clay soil. I moved into a house that had a plot come up in March here. Shocked! But grateful! I love asparagus ❤️ I really didn’t ‘do’ anything. It rains a lot from(early Feb?) March to August and very hot and humid. They lasted till about June. I harvest and let it grow over (what I’d read). But the gophers eventually got them or they got old and grown over with grass. Don’t know old they were but they came back for three years. Then nothing? I just bought crowns (August) and wondered if I wait till September (cooler here) and grow them in raised beds (no gophers) they would live longer. Already have a green thumb and plenty natural fertilizer (horses). Should I still use bone meal and (??) to help them live longer? Thanx in advance. Ginger :-)
I dont think age is an issue I have a friend who has had the same plants for 40 years
I think I am going to buy some after watching this
Great crop to have without having to work each year
I'm on my 6th year on my asparagus. All I do is put out a couple of inches of compost, then 4-5 in of mulch in the spring right before they sprout. That's all I do. I don't baby them, by giving them any special like a protected area to overwinter. All I do is chop the dead fronds off after the first couple of freezes. I always mean to mulch them, but always forget. It gets below 0 F for much of the winter, and they regrow just fine. I've been picking every other day since the end of March, and will probably stop mid May, getting plenty enough from the original 24 crowns to feed my family enough to supply a good sized side dish every other day.
If you pick the right variety they will self sow. I grow Mary Washington. Right now I have newly sprouted plants sitting right alongside my 6 yr olds.
They are left alone by the rodents and rabbits that visit from the nearby farmland. I'm not sure of anything else since those are my primary pests. Birds like the berries too. I've seen sprouts from my asparagus all around my neighborhood. I've even been known to complement their asparagus, and warn them that if they want to keep it, let it grow for a year or 2, then move it to a place where they can handle a 6-7 ft plant
Love the editing
Thanks Sarah :)
Very nice!
Thanks
Years ago when I was growing asparagus I discovered that they grow really quick. I observed over a short period of time( about 4 days ). I measured one stock of asparagus over this period of time and discovered they can grow several inches an hour. The one spear I was watching grew about four inches and hour over the observation period. However there was another spear very close to the I was watching that was shorter than the one I was watching in the beginning grew taller than the one I was watching when I stopped the observation of the spear I was measuring.
I discovered that I go several times a day to harvest asparagus. Wait too long the asparagus would go to flower.
Yeah u want to ensure its picked before it bolts
I found 3 old plants on a gra el pig that used to be a farm. I dug them up and lugged them home. Who knows how old they are 😄. I also planted some seeds to add more plants for the years to come. I have grown from seed before. Only stayed on that house for 5 years so hopefully the new owners appreciated the huge asparagus patch I left them.
Wow Michele, thats cool. You cant beat free plants like that. Bet they perform well for you
Gravel pit by the way 😄😄
We shall see this spring!