Sunday, May 18, 2014

Purple Asparagus


It's been perhaps 6 years and the asparagus is ridiculously fat, very tender, and on rough days, makes me feel like a competent gardener! In my raised bed, I add a layer of manure in the very early spring each year and mulch with straw as the asparagus begins to send up shoots.  Aside from the that, the only trick with asparagus is patience.  Here's some advice about growing and harvesting asparagus. If you grow asparagus, how long did it take before yours got really good?

7 comments:

  1. delicious, I planted out some more purple asparagus seed, as the seeds I planted outdid the mary washington crowns.

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  2. Oh how neat! I'd love to grow asparagus, but I have been a little intimidated by their permanence. I am thinking about re-doing the beds where I would put it, and probably need to wait. I love that yours is purple!

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  3. If I had planted asparagus when I first thought of it, I would have been enjoying feasting on it for years now. It always seems like too much of a long term commitment.

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  4. Hello Wendy, i didn't know there is a purple asparagus, all i see here are green. I love them, but i can't grow it in our hot climate, it is also very expensive in the supermarket.

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  5. I didn't know about purple asparagus too! Anyway I never planted them before...

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  6. Your asparagus looks great Wendy! It is perhaps the only vegetable I dislike (not sure why...), so I have never grown it - but that purple one is lovely enough to be an ornamental. Happy gardening

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  7. This sure does look like good asparagus!

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