We had our first meal of asparagus for the season tonight. Yum! I checked back in our garden journal and found our first asparagus last year was May 1st. I knew things were early this year and its fun to be able to check back and compare.
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I love asparagus! Yesterday, I picked my first stalk. I went in and rinsed it off and ate it raw-yum. What is your favorite way to prepare it? I love to steam them then add them to an egg and grill cheese sandwich.
I thought I had killed all the starts I put in my first ever bed I planted a while back. I went out yesterday morning and saw three of the tiniest little asparagus shoots popping through the ground. I was SO excited!
I would love to grow asparagus, I read it takes 3 years before you harvest your first crop. Can any one tell me how to get it started or a book that will give idiot proof instructions? Can it be grown in Texas? Also. what about rhubard? Farmgirl #946 Thanks for all your help.
I am so jealous... I have a couple new recipes that I can't wait to try but it is still freezing here at night so it isn't available locally yet and I refuse to buy it in the grocery store!
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Linda it can be grown in Texas and you can make all those WA girls really jealous. We have been harvesting our asparagus for about 3 weeks now. LOL. You can get the crowns at many garden centers. This year I noticed even Wal Mart had them. You can also order them through most of your garden catalogs. If you start with 2 year crowns you can harvest the second year in the ground. The first year you plant (the crown looks kind of like strawberry crowns) little shoots will come up but you let them go. They will look like ferns. The second year you should harvest only once per plant. By the third year you can harvest whatever it is willing to send up. This allows the roots to establish. Rhubarb is a little different. I am a Texas transplant from WA where it grows like wild flowers. When I planted it here it seemed stringy and tough and the taste was different. It took alot of care and I gave up. Good luck!
Victoria-Thanks for your e-mail and the info found here. I am excited, I am going tomorrow to Wal-Mart and to a garden center close by to see if they have any. I also read they need to be in a bed all by theirselves. I will probably pass on the rhubarb too, but we all love asparagus and its so expensive in the store. Thanks for the info and good luck with your garden. I was born and raised in Texas and am excited about MJF girls. Farmgirl#946
Asparagus!!
Posted - Apr 20 2010 : 8:13:14 PM
