General information and discussion about cultivating all other edible garden plants.
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Ok. You people are making me drool all over this keyboard. I finally have a few spears up but of course nothing I can harvest this first year. But it does look like most of my plants survived. Just wait till next year.
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I planted a row of it this year then I found it growing wild in one of my fields. Has anyone seen it grow on its own the spot the wild stuff is I brush hog twice a year usually.
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Join Date: May 2006
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bbb- you're lucky! No I haven't seen it growing on it's own, but I have heard others say that.
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"bush hog" I should have said. Over sized lawn mower for brush and grass goes behind tractor.
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My new asparagus is 2"-18" high when do I start filling in the ditch? I'm afraid to bury the little guys but I read your supposed to fill in around them as they grow.
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It depends on how you planted it. If you planted in a trench, you would need to fill it in, yes. I guess I'd fill in the ones that are taller and leave the 2" ones alone.
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I bush hogged around my "wild asparagus" took a couple pictures. It is over 6' tall guess I could of harvested a little more. The grass was over 3' tall.
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That's cool! What a nice thick asparagus patch. Bonus, you didn't have to do anything.
This reminds me, I always had a suspicion that asparagus would be left alone by animals if unprotected. Looks like it's one of the few things that they won't eat. My garden is like a fortress, all fenced in, because the wild life is so bad around here. The few times critters have gotten into the garden, the asparagus was untouched. Makes me think that I could have asparagus outside of the fortress and it wouldn't get eaten. Is your wild asparagus out in the open or fenced in somehow? Jen |
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In the open just above it I raise pheasants so there is lots of nitrogen running done the hill to it. Maybe I shoulda planted mine in the same spot.
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I'd fill in the trenches, especially on the taller plants. Asparagus will push its way up through quite a bit of soil.
My asparagus is out in the open and only occasionally will I find a new, tender stalk bit off, I assume by a deer. I don't think they like the taste of it. Other than that, nothing bothers it but the asparagus beetles and the Japanese beetles.
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There is one critter that loves to eat asparagus...Labrador Retrievers! I had to fence off my entire garden because the dogs got a taste for asparagus this year...they would eat anythign that popped out of the ground and dig down to get the ones that had not broken through the surface yet! I left the gate open open one day, two of them went in and the first thing they did was head for the asparagus patch and start to chow down.
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