Here in the US, I buy 2 years old roots to plant, and get that much of a
head start on eating them. I harvest it when the shoots are the size of a
pencil, usually that is the year I plant them or the following year. I
continue to cut them as long as they maintain that size, or until the first
of July, which ever is first. Then I let them grow undisturbed until
winter.

I add a general purpose fertilizer after the winter has killed off the tops,
or early spring. Then I water it in a couple of times before they come up
again.

Dwayne (in Kansas)




"Sheila" wrote in message
om...

They have to be the most delicious of all veg, though. To me, barely
steamed, they exemplify the flavour of the colour green :-)

Cat(h)

and without meaning to be vulgar, gives the urine the most awful stench,
but only a certain percentage of the population can smell it! (I happen to
be one of those, thought I was dying the first time I ate it....)