A Good solution to your problem, Genevieve, would be to build a nice
permanent raised bed for your asperagus. I did that in Arkansas with
landscape timbers, and had asparagus to give away. Watering was easy also,
because I designed my raised bed to be as long as my 75 ft soaker hose.
Once a week, unless it was very hot and dry, I would turn the water on for
a couple of hours, until I could stick my finger down into the dirt all the
way and still reach mud.

Dwayne



wrote in message ...
My area has had a good bit of trouble keeping asparagus alive from one yr
to
another for a variety of reasons .... winters not cold enough ... winter
spurts suddenly too cold so that roots froze, then thawed and rotted ...
not
keeping grass out of beds, beds get overgrown and asparagus roots
overwhelmed ... moles, voles, etc. eating roots from underground tunnels
....
too much rain and standing water for too long of a time.

Genevieve in Mississippi