Looking to add a tasty, low-maintenance crop to your vegetable garden that’ll reward you for years to come? Growing asparagus might just be your next favorite gardening adventure. Yes, it takes a ...

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 ...

Perennial vegetables are an elite group and are prized for their ability to produce a harvest year after year. Asparagus is one of these valued veggies, and, best of all, it's very easy to grow. Like ...

Asparagus is a long-lived herbaceous perennial that has as much living plant material below ground as above ground. Tender tops can be killed by a freeze, but underneath is a massive network of ...

See how fast an asparagus plant was growing from a seed in this time-lapse. The asparagus seed was sown under soil in a 10-inch container. It took about 8 days to sprout and quickly turned into fern ...

Spring is the ideal time to plant asparagus. Properly planted and maintained, an asparagus bed will yield a harvest for 20 years or longer. Here's how to plant this perennial vegetable: • Although you ...

Asparagus and rhubarb are two of the few perennial vegetables that grow well in Kansas. Although each may offer lower maintenance in the years after planting, good garden bed planning and preparation ...

Answer: February is the time to order asparagus crowns, which mature a year or two faster than seed. And our relatively dry weather we’ve been having will allow you to work up a new bed. Choose a ...

So you decided to plant asparagus last year, and this year - you have asparagus! Asparagus is a long-lived perennial vegetable. If you planted healthy, disease-free crowns (root systems of 1-year-old ...

DEERFIELD TWP. -- Here's your chance to order "Earliglow" strawberry plants and "Jersey Knight" asparagus crowns from the Cumberland County 4-H Advisory Committee at a great price, only $8 for a ...

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 ...