Perennial stem vegetable "Asparagus officinalis" varieties and cultivars, and other Genus "Asparagus" species, varieties, and cultivars.
Questions tagged [asparagus]
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How do you save an asparagus bed from comfrey?
I accidentally buried a lot of fresh picked comfrey stems under wood chips when building an asparagus bed. How do I save the asparagus bed from the comfrey?
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Asparagus too big
This is the 3rd year for my asparagus. I am ready to start enjoying it as I was told to not use until now to let the plants establish themselves. Now look the fruit is HUGE. I was hoping for a little bit smaller spears.
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Should I cut off the brown/white branches of my asparagus fern?
My fern sits in the office and has many of these light brown or white branches. Should I remove these by cutting them off, and how can I prevent them from happening again?
Thanks for the help!
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Why is my asparagus fern growing tall, stiff stems?
I have been growing an asparagus fern for a few months now, and its been doing well enough that I've split it into two pots back in the spring. Recently, one of them, which I've situated in a sunny, east facing window, has been growing a couple of…
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How do I add height to an existing asparagus bed?
A month or two ago I planted (1-year old) asparagus in a 6" high raised bed. Now we want to raise it to 30", or more, (easier for my mum to pick).
Would it be a problem? How best to go about it?
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Is it possible to continuously harvest asparagus?
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From what I understand:
It's a perennial that emits spears from a central crown - those are what we eat.
If we don't eat the spears, they turn into ferns. Those ferns absorb sunshine and fuel the growth of the crown.
The crown absorbs…
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How many spears of asparagus do I get the first 2 years?
I have 3 asparagus plants of about 2 years and I'm not getting a whole lots of spears. I don't know why? I only got about 5 spears the whole years.
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Moving asparagus to a pot then back in the ground a few months later
There are three mature asparagus plants in our backyard, which we've been enjoying so far since we moved in a few months ago. Unfortunately, they are located in the exact spot where we'll soon be building a garage, and due to some other work we're…
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Are there toxic or inedible kinds of asparagus?
I discovered what looks like asparagus growing in my backyard. I had cut these down around 3-4 weeks ago (they were fairly tall "wispy" bushes then, with a lot of small red fruits hanging off, so I didn't recognise them as asparagus at the time --…
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