"David \(in Normandy\)" wrote:

However, I've just noticed that one of the
asparagus shoots has lots of pea size green spheres on it. Are these seeds?

Sort of- they're berries that will turn red when ripe, each containing
several black seeds. Easiest to clean by crushing the ripe berries in your
fingers, then mixing with water to float off the pulp.
You can plant the seeds in flats in late winter, and put the resulting
plants in a nursery bed for a year then into the permanent bed the next
spring.
BTW, the roots shouldn't have been "dried;" you didn't say what percentage
took. In my own limited experience, home-grown plants do so much better,
it doesn't even cost any more growing time to get good producing asparagus.
You can also buy just asparagus seed, including some hybrids promised to
throw mostly male plants, which produce better.


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G