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re: The 2021 Garden Thread
Posted on 3/2/21 at 6:42 am to street pizza
Posted on 3/2/21 at 6:42 am to street pizza
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Had 3 asparagus shoots show up today.
Learn me on growing asparagus. My wife has been wanting me to grow some, but I just haven’t gotten around to it. Can these be grown in a container? If I remember correctly, there’s a bit of patience required when growing these? I’ll have to do some more reading on it, but I’d appreciate any first hand tips you can give.
My poor seedlings took a beating from the wind yesterday. About half of my beefmasters were laid over. Luckily no breaks. I used some wooden shish kabob skewers and bread ties to stake them in their 4 inch pots.
Once this cooler weather passes I may have to put them in the ground. Similar to my Roma’s, they have really started to take off and are quickly outgrowing the pot.
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Posted on 3/2/21 at 7:15 am to PillageUrVillage
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If I remember correctly, there’s a bit of patience required when growing these?
If I remember correctly, it takes like 3 years to start producing if you start from seed
I don't have the kind of patience
Posted on 3/2/21 at 8:21 am to PillageUrVillage
What is the best solution for ants in tomato buckets. I planted tomatoes in buckets last year and i could not keep the ants out.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 8:02 pm to PillageUrVillage
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Learn me on growing asparagus. My wife has been wanting me to grow some, but I just haven’t gotten around to it. Can these be grown in a container? If I remember correctly, there’s a bit
My wife got some Asparagus seedlings from Sam’s and they seem to grow easy. I believe it takes a few years for them to start producing. From what we read the roots get to be huge. The package my wife bought from Sam’s had 33 plants. We planted some in big growing bags . Also planted 3 in the yard by some shrubs and they are all growing too. I wish we had more room for the rest of them .
Posted on 3/3/21 at 11:27 am to PillageUrVillage
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Learn me on growing asparagus.
You can buy 2-year crowns. I planted them last year in an above ground bed. You have to just leave them alone the first year. This year I can harvest 50% of them, so that would be 3 years from seed.
Next year I can harvest all of them and they will continue to grow for 20 years. Yes it takes patience, but I think it's worth it.
Perhaps the one thing that would be a hinderance is space. They say you should plant 10 crowns per person. That's a heck of a lot of space.
If you plant a fruit tree you expect to wait a few years so I'm cool with that.
Posted on 3/4/21 at 2:02 pm to PillageUrVillage
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Learn me on growing asparagus.
Super easy, probably about the same effort as growing herbs like oregano and thyme, which is almost zero effort. I've been growing asparagus for several years and the flavor of garden asparagus is night and day better than store bought. I grew mine from seeds but you can buy the crowns at a good nursery. You do have to wait a couple of years to get much harvest but then they take off. I hardly ever water or fertilize mine and they do great....and I am in Dallas where we have shitty alkaline clay soils. I just cut mine back yesterday and already had several coming up and this is after -2 cold a couple of weeks ago.
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