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cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 12:11 pm Post subject: Asparagus!
First local asparagus on the market stalls today. Also some 'imported', from the Wye Valley. All of it looked and smelled in tip-top condition.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 12:13 pm Post subject:
Thanks for that Cab, will have to send the missus hunting

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 12:14 pm Post subject:
Have you not got an asparagus bed, or two yet? Slacker.

tahir

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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 12:15 pm Post subject:
Nope, it was on the cards this year but ran out of time and money

sean
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 12:16 pm Post subject:
Pah. Shan't be visiting you then. Who has got an asparagus bed?

cab

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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 12:24 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Who has got an asparagus bed?

I have. A few plants in the garden, anyway. Going to be feasting on home grown this evening

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 12:29 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Who has got an asparagus bed?

I have, but you don't like Wales.

sean
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 12:31 pm Post subject:
Well that's a fat lot of help. I should have been more specific and asked who within striking distance of my house has an asparagus bed and wants help eating it. Last edited by sean on Wed Apr 11, 07 12:32 pm; edited 1 time in total

sean
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 12:31 pm Post subject:

judith wrote:

I have, but you don't like Wales.

I don't mind Wales in small helpings.

alison
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 2:05 pm Post subject:
Fortunately I haven't!

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 4:03 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Have you not got an asparagus bed, or two yet? Slacker.

Just expanded mine by a further 20 crowns. Should have it in abundance in another couple of years.

Well worth the effort IMO.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 6:07 pm Post subject:
I have seedlings just coming up in the greenhouse - only another three years to wait .

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 7:15 pm Post subject:
We also have a small asparagus bed, grown from seed a few years back and it should crop well this year. Home grown is much better than any shop stuff and you can even eat it while it's still growing on the plant...

mrutty

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1578

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 7:22 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Nope, it was on the cards this year but ran out of time and money

I have some of that for sell now that I've finally moved and yes I'm packing your fruit bushes at last and they will go out on Monday as long as Becki goes to the post office.

tigger

Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 725
Location: Bologna (Italy)

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 07 8:02 pm Post subject:
https://www.italianmade.com/foods/subcat25014.cfm Virtually the whole of our village is an asparagus bed Bit too far away though.

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