"Angela Coffey" wrote:

I discovered some asparagus in one of my side gardens that has been growing
way too long to harvest it. I read somewhere that if you let it go, it'll
turn into a feathery fern looking plant, and that's exactly what these are
doing. Do asparagus ferns start out as an asparagus stalk?? If I let it
keep growing, will I have an asparagus fern eventually?

Different species, same genus:

Asparagus sprengeri = decorative "asparagus fern"

Asparagus officinalis = ediblegarden kind

The garden kind makes a nice fluffy temporary hedge in the summer

Tsu

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