I may have mentioned that I planted asparagus last weekend. Back in September, just a month after buying the MO house, and having no idea when we’d be living here fulltime, I ordered asparagus from a Plantworld, an Etsy seller. They were going to ship them in late winter or early spring and I had to write and ask them to hold them because we weren’t here and weren’t ready to plant them. It was getting late in the planting season so I wrote them a couple of weeks ago and asked them to go ahead and send them.
Saturday Addie and I planted them in the grow bags. I planted some in one gallon bags (one per bag) and then put 6 in bigger 5 gallon bags. Vince is going to build raised beds but I haven’t even mentioned that yet.
It’s hard to see but near the front right and back left . . asparagus!! I won’t harvest it this year. They are two year roots so next year I can harvest a bit but not much. After that, we’ll have all the asparagus we need!
Plantworld sells blueberries, strawberries and other things besides asparagus. I highly recommend them. Those were the nicest looking asparagus I have ever seen. The ones I ordered are all males so hopefully I won’t be spreading asparagus seeds to the yards in the entire neighborhood.
Elle says
Maybe consider cattle troughs to assure no spread?
I’ve heard that’s the only way we should plant bamboo
Judy Laquidara says
It was the spread from the female flowers producing seeds that I couldn’t keep up with. The spreading from the roots is easy to control, especially in raised beds.