On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:49:19 -0000, Anthony Anson
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from Joan Riley contains
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Do not pull even a single stick during the first year, and it will
reward you with *VAST* stalks in following years.

The asparagus can be treated in a similar way, though it's more usual to
build the bed up on a heap of manure. It isn't so greedy for water as
rhubarb is, though.

Are you sure the tree is an apple, not a peach or something which might
benefit from being in a greenhouse?

Thankyou for your reply. The apple is an apple as there was just one
large one on the tree in the autumn, which I ate and it was mushy and
tasteless - perhaps due to being grown in such a hot environment.
Manure I have plenty of as there are a couple of Clydesdales on the
farm and there are mounds of old manure here. Will it be alright to
move the asparagus and rhubarb now or should I wait until the autumn?

Joan in Ayrshire
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