[loubylou29]

Right, I am really beginning to plan this year now, so Asparagus.. when do I plant it, my research tells me April, in a prepared bed.. do I buy 2 yr old crowns or not??
what are your experineces please?
Thanks
Lucy
xx

[gobs]

Timing is OK, buy oldest crown you get, if affordable. Saves the wait.

If you can team up with someone to share, T&M do a good deal on 20, so they come under a pound each and you get a few varieties that way, too.

[loubylou29]

Thanks Gobs,
I will look at TandM, I share my allotment annyway so it owuld cost half regardless.. will look into it! yay!!

[DeadlyNightshade]

When should I see any 'movement' in crowns planted last year? I've bought some 'out of date' and very cheap (I'm entirely useless at walking past a bargain )in ASDA last year and planted them beside rhubarb with the same history... nothing green emerged out of the soil all last season...


..is there any hope or was my bargain not a bargain at all?


Bell

[Sally A]

Decent priced asparagus in Woolworths at the moment :!:

[DD.]

When should I see any 'movement' in crowns planted last year? I've bought some 'out of date' and very cheap (I'm entirely useless at walking past a bargain )in ASDA last year and planted them beside rhubarb with the same history... nothing green emerged out of the soil all last season...


..is there any hope or was my bargain not a bargain at all?


Bell

Not yet, mid-late April possibly, can't remember specifically!

[gobs]

When should I see any 'movement' in crowns planted last year? I've bought some 'out of date' ... nothing green emerged out of the soil all last season...

Normally, they should have grown that year, so there is the chance they are dead.

But, if you can, leave and wait for another season, as often happens with stressed out(for whatever reason) plants, they are actually alive, deep down there and come along later, once they recovered.

It doesn't always work out well to be frugal.

[DD.]

When should I see any 'movement' in crowns planted last year? I've bought some 'out of date' ... nothing green emerged out of the soil all last season...

Normally, they should have grown that year, so there is the chance they are dead.

But, if you can, leave and wait for another season, as often happens with stressed out(for whatever reason) plants, they are actually alive, deep down there and come along later, once they recovered.

It doesn't always work out well to be frugal.

I assumed - probably wrongly - that they were bought late in the year. If it was the first part of the year - I would abandon hope!

[gobs]

I did not want to be that drastic, but most likely to be the case, as she says, did not emerge all season , so they were planted early, I'd guess.

[DeadlyNightshade]

Thanks... what odds, it gave me the kick of thinking I made a bargain that time