On 07/05/2012 17:31, David WE Roberts wrote:
Just to note that a couple of days ago we discovered some asparagus on
the allotment.

Now we have to investigate and see if we can find all the crowns amongst
the grass and weeds.

We have no idea how many years it has been there, but we cut the first
spears anyway :-)
Very, very tasty.

Now wondering if it is worth filling in any gaps in the bed once we have
established exactly how far it extends.
I have read up about asparagus and nowhere does it mention transplanting
anything other than one year old plants, so reorganising the bed doesn't
seem an option.

Cheers

Dave R

Asparagus has male and female plants. If you have a mix you should get
some orange coloured berries on the female plants in Autumn. I have
grown these with no problem. You do have to wait around three years to
get asparagus plants mature enough to cut spears from. I read that
asparagus can be cropped for up to around ten or twelve years. Don't
know why there would be a limit. Anyway the asparagus in your allotment
may be older than that?

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