On 1/28/2015 10:20 AM, Terry Coombs wrote:
songbird wrote:
reasonably good drainage, fairly high level of
organic matter, sandy loam, spacing as recommended by
package, i may plant a few inches deeper than the
package recommends in an arid climate with hot summers
and also make sure to top dress the area with more
organic materials at the end of each season to help
hold the soil moisture in and to keep the OM levels
high.

there are new varieties available that have an
earlier growing cycle, you may want to find some of
these to add along with others to have an extended
harvest.


songbird

I still remember walking the fence lines and ditches on m y grandfather's
farm in the spring picking Asparagus . Didn't like it then , and don't now .
I tell my wife that I'll cook it for her if she'll cook liver for me ... she
refuses ! I mean , just because it makes her nauseus ...

I'm with you, will eat asparagus occasionally but have always liked
liver, no matter what sort of critter it came out of. Hard to even find
liver in the Houston area unless you can find a real butcher shop, which
I just ran across one. Will be going back for liver soon. My wife likes
asparagus and liver and pretty much will eat anything. As the middle
child of five, two older brothers and two younger sisters, with the two
boys being very large, she had to scrap for her food at the table.

Wife grew up in rural Maryland and picked wild asparagus along the creek
side.

Back in the sixties, when we were a young married couple I bought all of
our meat of any kind from a local butcher that I had grown up with. Also
took the calves we raised to him for butchering and packaging. Hard to
find those types of butchers anymore.

Discovered today that both of the grow light bulbs were defunct, just
ordered a new one online. Getting close to seed starting time.

George