Asparagus Makes a Kickass Plant!

They growing roots?

We had some. It takes about 2 years to start producing decent size spears. DO NOT put it close to a vegetable garden as they’re invasive and will take ove.

Hard as heck to dig out too. Like trying to dig through thick carpet. If you have a good size fence line, that’s the best place. They are a perineal and will come back each year in most places.

No roots, just new shoots out the top.

I wonder if it's kind of like hydroponics. I should look into that.

I'd love to plant a garden, but I live in the desert now.

But apparently, I can grow asparagus in a vase!

Has cute red balls.
It can resemble a Christmas tree all year.

It’s much better to watch it grow than to eat it. It’s nasty stuff.

Poor Kyle, LOL

I always heard asparagus makes your pee smell weird. Never noticed it, maybe my pee already smelled weird. Anyways, it's really good for liver health, lots of benefits!

aye lol. like you said though it's very good for you!
Good luck with the grow! :)

Thanks!

I just had this feeling come over me. I can’t call it an “epiphany”, because I’ve always known it.

In this world/life experience/simulation, it’s so cut throat. You have to take energy from something else to maintain your own existence. You can’t just “be”. You have to kill and steal. Of course, I’m being dramatic for fun. But think about it - you can’t keep living unless you eat something, thereby destroy it.

Why can’t we just be sustained without cannibalizing nearby energy? Riddle me that, Batman.

We have one who can see lol

It seems to me, that one type of “hell” might be where you’re forced to feed off others, as opposed to being able to maintain yourself without having to take energy from other things.

I’m not vegetarian, I used to be a gourmet cook. And I still like meat (free range chickens and fish). But I’m just pondering this today - you are literally forced to take energy from elsewhere to maintain your existence. Something is off about that. Why can’t I be self maintaining?

Most don’t think about this, they’re very busy. I was one of them until a year and a half ago.

I will tell you this. The best thing that ever happened to me was the start of The Great Reset, when they launched the great Scandemic.

I dropped EVERYTHING. I walked away from it ALL.

I have never seen more clearly in my life.

I dug up some to thin out the patch, for every one I dug up, 50 more sprang up in the original spot. Now when I want to thin, I cut back all of the new stalks of the plant I want to thin for a few seasons. It cuts off the feed to the mother root.

Yes, it only effects some people, not everyone. Some studies say it is a biological ability to detect the smell more than the plant effecting the urine of only some people. I am one that can defiantly detect the overpowering strong smell. I grow and eat a lot of asparagus.

Op will be able to get the asparagus to bloom in water, but you will need a root tuber to grow the plant.

oops, they are called crowns not tubers. They look kind of like an octopus.

When the plant matures it looks like a 6 ft tall bushy fern with red berries.

I chucked an old leek cutting onto a compost heap and it started to grow

I am trying to grow asparagus too but the climate isn't suitable. What state are you at?

I sometimes I get 6 months of snow and 20 below 0 and my asparagus does great all spring and summer. I have the purple top variety, it is green, but they call it purple due to a little purple hue. I know it grows wild in CA, you might just need to try a kind that does well where you live. It can do well in hot or cold climates depending on the veriety.

Now I want some bacon wrapped asparagus cooked over a grill.......

I have an asparagus patch.

It takes 3 years to establish, before you can really start harvesting.

It is perennial for up to 25 years, so that is a definite plus.

But on the downside, if you don't happen to have a ton of land, each plant takes up a good amount of space. The fern tops kind of sprawl out a lot.

Do not plant if you need to use your smaller land for high productivity. Oh f you have the space, it is a great addition.

the best part about asparagus is that you only have to plant it once ... and it comes back every year ... home-grown is so much better than store-bought - amazing difference

it is great for fiber - and cleaning your bowels ... I love it steamed, and then fried with bacon bits ... yum

I planted five plants some years back ... you have to wait for the stems to get bigger than a pencil before you harvest - may take up to three years for their roots to establish - but I've been eating from those plants for six years now, and every year there is more ... always make sure you leave at least one stem per plant when you are harvesting ... so you don't kill the roots - and then let that one stem grow - it will get six foot high in the summer ... now I have an entire bed of asparagus - that is the first plant up in my garden ...

I aso live in a desert climate ... and it grows fine here even without having to water it ... it's got deep roots

need to chop it all down before Spring ... to make room for new growth ... and it will grow for centuries

it's got some good alkaloids in it the flush out the kidneys

Years ago I lived in SE Wisconsin, used to drive the country roads where it grew wild...

Too many people cleaned out the patches and never let them seed out...

If the plant flowers and makes the red ball seeds, the seeds are poisonous.

If you want to grow asparagus yourselves, it will take 3 years to get a full harvest.
Might be a good idea to put it in a raised bed north to south, plant will get 6foot high so makes for a nice privacy screen in summer.

I have a large OLD bed that I enjoy immensely.
Very little maintenance and up against a rhubarb bed which is also very old and they are aware of each other's border.
For those who don't garden these are 2 of my recommended plants.
And yesssssssss they taste so much better then store bought.

thanks for the info. might not be the tastiest plant but very good for the kidneys.