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sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 18 1:15 pm Post subject: Asparagus is in.
Yee-hah. First of the year in the greengrocer today.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 18 1:16 pm Post subject:
Still Peruvian in our local. Will tell the missus to berate the miserable old sod

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 18 7:15 pm Post subject:
ooh i will check the market on the morrow

sean
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 18 12:37 pm Post subject:
Roasted with a fried egg and a dusting of smoke paprika for lunch in the sunshine.

jamanda
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Location: Devon

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 18 6:27 pm Post subject:
I had reheated curry in a gloomy staffroom.

sean
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 18 9:59 pm Post subject:
I'd left you asparagus to have with your dinner though.

dpack

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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 18 10:30 pm Post subject:

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
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Location: Somerset

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 18 8:50 am Post subject:
On a scale of 1-10, how much effort is it to grow the stuff?

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 18 10:52 am Post subject:

gythagirl wrote:

On a scale of 1-10, how much effort is it to grow the stuff?

Year 1 is where the majority of the effort occurs. And that largely depends upon whether you are planting crowns, or seedlings. (Seedlings are more work, since you'll plant them deep, but only fill in their trench a bit over a year or two. Crowns get planted and that's about it)

The rest is weeding and re-applying mulch, harvesting (after about year 3), and removing/destroying canes at the end of the season to remove habitat for things like asparagus beetle (at least around here)

The effort required for weeding/mulching depends upon your system, your frequency, etc....

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46207
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 18 3:22 pm Post subject:

gythagirl wrote:

On a scale of 1-10, how much effort is it to grow the stuff?

from seed, moderately.
from crowns, a bit.

if you know how to make a friable and very rich soil, pretty easy.
takes a few years to get it ready for heavy cropping and it is a rolling process.

next to a leaky compost heap can be a good spot

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