Asparagus is a long-lived perennial vegetable. If you planted healthy, disease-free crowns (root systems of 1-year-old plants grown from seed), each crown should produce half a pound of spears per ...

Asparagus, Asparagus officinalis is a favorite spring crop that is harvested from May to late June. This is a perennial vegetable whose edible parts are called spears, they grow upright stalks that ...

Asparagus is a perennial vegetable that produces a harvest for over a decade when properly cared for. It just needs the right ...

You can’t just pop asparagus crowns, or seedlings, in the ground. Because it is a perennial vegetable, it requires a little planning and a few hours of work. A few weeks ago I naively bought a few six ...

You may have seen the term “bare root plants” in nursery catalogs and websites and wondered what it means. Basically, it’s exactly what it sounds like: Plants are shipped without soil or a container.

Asparagus is one of the few perennial vegetables that is commonly grown in gardens. Like many vegetables, asparagus can be somewhat polarizing; either you love it or hate it. If you’re in the love ...

Q: Should asparagus be planted in the fall or the spring? How should it be planted? J.G., Tulsa A: Asparagus is a valuable vegetable for your garden; it is tasty, healthy and easy to grow. It may be ...

Watch how an asparagus growing from a bare-root to crowns and young plant in this time lapse. The root was planting in a pot with soil and grow lights. It took about 10 days to see 2 crowns shot up ...

A few weeks ago I naively bought a few six-packs of beautiful, ferny little asparagus seedling plants, thinking that since local asparagus production is disappearing, given over to out-of-state ...