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Tips On How To Plant And Grow Asparagus

By Della Monroe


There are people who loves to plant in their backyards and to harvest their own fruits and vegetables. They usually have it because they want to make sure that the food they eat is safe, less expenses and some of us just really loves to plant. Aside from the fact that it beautify our homes, it actually creates a soothing and relaxing vibe, and it help us connect with nature.

We are into planting more organic food because we want to boost our body nutrients and we are conscious to our health as well. One of the best vegetable that we can possibly plant is the asparagus, because it provides a lot of healthy benefits. It is easy on how to plant and grow asparagus in your place by yourself.

Asparagus is known vegetable as a type similar to onions and garlic. The buds become harder when blooms so the shoots instead are the part commonly eaten by people. It is a good appetizer and side dish but there are still several ways that you can eat it and it varies to the tradition or country you are into.

It takes a lot patience because it usually takes 2 to 3 years for it to produce but it can be productive up to 20 to 30 years. Spring season is typically the perfect time for you to start planting an asparagus since the soil can be worked on. Remove all the weeds and start digging the beds for about 2 to 4 inch layer of manure and compost soil.

Just check and have a good water system and make 6 inch trench where it is 6 to 12 inches deep. Have a mound inside the trench and start putting the crowns, wherein they are apart of about 15 to 18 inches. Once this was finish, try covering them with soil as a deep two inches and start watering them.

Exposed its stem for 3 to 4 inch since you need to fill the trench again with another layer of soil. Place an amount of mulch to do the layering again and once it has been properly place try to water them again. Cutting down of dead foliage can help a lot to avoid them being rotten.

For the following years, you can harvest them when you noticed that they become more establish and vegetative and the spear is thicker than a pencil. They can be harvested for several weeks once the spears starts to show. After the harvest, allow them to grow again and replenish their nutrients for the next production.

There are two of this type, the white asparagus which are the kind that can grow even with the absence of sunlight and that prevents the chlorophyll from developing. They are sweeter, but it has less fiber. We have this Purple asparagus where it was planted as purple but it turns into green when cooked, and they are thicker but less spears.

They provide a lot of nutritional effects in our body that can help fight cancer because it replenishes tarnish cells. Helps cure urine problem because of its amount of amino acid. So in preparing it, just make sure that you are maintaining its nutrients.




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