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Cheryl Isaak · 25-04-2007, 01:37 PM posted to rec.gardens

On 4/25/07 12:28 AM, in article , "Jack
Schmidling" wrote:

wrote:

Info: I have some asparagus seed ........ Any
advice on this, and on how soon I can reasonably harvest from the
relocated plants, would be welcome.

If you are over 50 or like to eat asparagus, I would just eat the
sprouts and buy serious rhizomes.

If you have runty little shoots to plant, you might save a year or two.

We have done both and it was a waste of time.

When we moved out to the country, we bought the biggest, most expensive
rhizomes we could find and ate a few nice big stalks the first year.
After that it was more than we could eat ever since.

I just took some pics of our asparagus patch for a future Photo of the
Week. We have been harvesting for about a week now (Northern Illinois)
and stop on June 1 to let it build up for next year.

This is without a doubt the crown jewel of our garden. We pig out on
the stuff and pickle what we can't eat. It is a waste of good asparagus
to freeze it. We have omelets for breakfast and roast it for dinner and
tonite it was asparagus cheese crepes.

Can't wait for breakfast,

js
I'm headed to your house to eat!