A baking and gardening journal. Mostly.
Three years in, we can now begin to harvest asparagus. For reference, the Space Invader cutting board is 12″ high:
The asparagus we started in 2016 ultimately didn’t work out due to poor planning and a bad location, so we tried again in 2018. This time around we have a much sunnier spot and raised beds to help the drainage and soil temperature.
A picture of the raised bed from this Container Garden Update post — June 9, 2019.:
Dinner will be asparagus with salmon and small potatoes.
-A.J.
The first asparagus to come up this spring! Given it was only planted last year, that makes it the first asparagus ever!
Talking to another local who grows asparagus, I thought we might have to wait until closer to the end of the month to see some shoots. Nope!
Last year we planted asparagus in three different areas of the back yard. The thinking was that they’d likely do better in some places and worse in others. Depending upon how many survived the winter we could try to consolidate the plots into the best spot. Also, if we did lose a few to the wet and cold it might not be terrible, since they may have been over-crowded in the first place. More elbow room might be a good thing!… Or they were going to be fine all along as is… Hard to say.
Of course, this all means that our first real harvest is a year away..
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