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Garden Week in Review

John — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:01:49 +0000

First asparagus harvest of 2011. The asparagus is now growing furiously. We had our first full harvest on Monday and by this weekend we’d had another two additional harvests (I consider a harvest enough to feed our family of four). Our favorite way to prepare fresh asparagus is to cut the spears into bite [...read more]

Garden Week in Review

John — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:36:56 +0000

On Monday I went out to the asparagus bed and counted eight spears poking their way up through the soil. By the weekend that number had tripled and most of them look to be nice and fat. I’ve read that asparagus planted too shallow will result in thin, spindly spears. Planting deeper yields fewer [...read more]

Superphosphate, anyone? Anyone?

John — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:13:47 +0000

Our asparagus harvest this spring was very disappointing. It is our third year and everything we’ve read told us this would be the first year we would have a full harvest. We harvested some but many of the stalks were thin, not the fat succulent Jersey Giant stalks we had expected. I did a [...read more]

first asparagus harvested

John — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:52:00 +0000

Last year we built a raised bed and planted 40 Jersey Giant asparagus plants. Over the summer they all came up and we had a beautiful “wall” of 3-4 ft high fronds. This is now the second season for the plants and supposedly we can do a light harvest so I carefully cut about [...read more]