Comments on: Seeds Arrive with a New Gadget http://mynortherngarden.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/seeds-arrive-with-a-new-gadget/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:03:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: mynortherngarden http://mynortherngarden.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/seeds-arrive-with-a-new-gadget/#comment-318 mynortherngarden Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:37:27 +0000 http://mynortherngarden.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-318 Asparagus is easy to grow once it is established, but it's a commitment. We had a nice patch in our former home. You can buy seeds to get started, but you are better off getting one-year-old roots, which are available from many catalogs or nurseries. It likes full sun and well drained soil--you don't want the roots to be soggy. Most places recommend you dig a trench, 12 inches deep and 18 inches wide, and make a little mound in the middle. Spread the roots of each plant out over the soil mound, cover it with 2 inches of soil, and keep covering it throughout the summer, adding soil as the asparagus grows until it's even with the ground. You don't want to harvest anything (or at least not much) the first couple of years to let the plants get established. Once its established, an asparagus patch will last 15 or more years. After the asparagus season ends, you have to let the asparagus grow and it produces a pretty, if slightly rangy, plant, with fine foliage. Good luck! Asparagus is easy to grow once it is established, but it’s a commitment. We had a nice patch in our former home. You can buy seeds to get started, but you are better off getting one-year-old roots, which are available from many catalogs or nurseries. It likes full sun and well drained soil–you don’t want the roots to be soggy. Most places recommend you dig a trench, 12 inches deep and 18 inches wide, and make a little mound in the middle. Spread the roots of each plant out over the soil mound, cover it with 2 inches of soil, and keep covering it throughout the summer, adding soil as the asparagus grows until it’s even with the ground.

You don’t want to harvest anything (or at least not much) the first couple of years to let the plants get established. Once its established, an asparagus patch will last 15 or more years. After the asparagus season ends, you have to let the asparagus grow and it produces a pretty, if slightly rangy, plant, with fine foliage.

Good luck!

]]> By: Gardener wanna-be in Woodbury http://mynortherngarden.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/seeds-arrive-with-a-new-gadget/#comment-317 Gardener wanna-be in Woodbury Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:48:38 +0000 http://mynortherngarden.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-317 I am interested in doing just a little vegetable planting myself, so I enjoyed your blog on starting seeds indoors. But, what I really want to grow is asparagus which I hear from some is basically a weed. Do you know if you need to start that indoors before moving it outside? And, is there some type of soil that is better for aspargus? Or, could I grow it in a pot? I'd love any information you have about growing asparagus. I am interested in doing just a little vegetable planting myself, so I enjoyed your blog on starting seeds indoors. But, what I really want to grow is asparagus which I hear from some is basically a weed. Do you know if you need to start that indoors before moving it outside? And, is there some type of soil that is better for aspargus? Or, could I grow it in a pot? I’d love any information you have about growing asparagus.

]]> By: ourfriendben http://mynortherngarden.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/seeds-arrive-with-a-new-gadget/#comment-310 ourfriendben Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:28:03 +0000 http://mynortherngarden.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-310 Hi Mary! Glad to hear that you, too, enjoy Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. I placed a huge order with them, too--though not as huge as I'd have liked!--and had meant to order a Clyde's Garden Planner as well, but then forgot in the furor of narrowing down my seed choices. From what you say, it sounds like a fun gadget, and I'll add it to my list for next year! Hi Mary! Glad to hear that you, too, enjoy Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. I placed a huge order with them, too–though not as huge as I’d have liked!–and had meant to order a Clyde’s Garden Planner as well, but then forgot in the furor of narrowing down my seed choices. From what you say, it sounds like a fun gadget, and I’ll add it to my list for next year!

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