You can’t just pop asparagus crowns, or seedlings, in the ground. Because it is a perennial vegetable, it requires a little planning and a few hours of work. A few weeks ago I naively bought a few six ...

If you wish to grow asparagus, now is the time of year to get started. Because it is possible to have a bed of asparagus that will produce for 20 years, it is important to choose a location that will ...

Asparagus is a long-lived perennial vegetable. If you planted healthy, disease-free crowns (root systems of 1-year-old plants grown from seed), each crown should produce half a pound of spears per ...

Your fireplace has a hidden treasure that can transform a struggling garden bed into flourishing plants and a wonderful harvest. Wood ash acts as an organic supplement for Asparagus officinalis, the ...

The roots have nodules where more grass leaves grow, so if you break off a root at a nodule, the plant continues to grow. The ground was still quite wet when I was weeding my asparagus patch, so I ...

Q: How do I grow asparagus? Is it better to plant from seed or transplants? Are there any other perennial vegetable plants that I can plant that will come back every year? A. Asparagus is easy to grow ...

Watch how an asparagus growing from a bare-root to crowns and young plant in this time lapse. The root was planting in a pot ...

Asparagus spears are often one of the more expensive vegetables to purchase. While asparagus plants prefer a cooler climate, they can be grown successfully in this area. It is the first vegetable crop ...

A few weeks ago I naively bought a few six-packs of beautiful, ferny little asparagus seedling plants, thinking that since local asparagus production is disappearing, given over to out-of-state ...