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Old 27-04-2009, 10:20 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Asparagus question

On Apr 27, 9:28*pm, David in Normandy
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I've just got back home after a week on holiday and the asparagus has
put up lots of shoots, some of which are too large to crop to eat.
Should the larger shoots (a foot hight) be cut off or just left to grow?
Will leaving them reduce the number of new edible tips?
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In Norfolk we used to grow asparagus; cut the shoots off now even
though they are too large to eat (are the tips too large?) Don't let
them to to seed just yet.

Judith