I had a search through the archives but couldn't find anything on
this one.

I'm thinking of getting asparagus in the spring. Got an area set aside
- about 2 -3m square - so I need to know the plant and row spacings to
know the number of crowns to order, and that's where the problem
comes.

My trusty Mr Hellyer says rows at 4 ft and plants at 1 ft (he's old so
he's allowed to use imperial), whereas I've just looked at the RHS
website and they say 30 to 45cm for the plants and 45cm (18") for the
rows with the plants staggered. This row spacing is significantly
different such that I can get in many more plants with the RHS method.
This is obviously desirable but is such a close spacing going to be as
productive ?

Has anyone recently made up an asparagus bed and what spacings did you
use ?

Rob