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sean
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 9:18 am Post subject: Asparagus...
Saw the first Cornish asparagus in the greengrocer's this morning.

judith

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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 9:20 am Post subject:
Nary a sign of the stuff in my asparagus bed

Fee

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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 9:21 am Post subject:
wooop, will keep an eye out then Asparagus, how I've missed thee, for it seems so long since last we met. When I gobbled you all up smothered in butter. Last edited by Fee on Mon Apr 14, 08 9:21 am; edited 1 time in total

sean
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 9:21 am Post subject:
Apparently it's one farm with a particularly sheltered microclimate. There was something about them in the Indie this Saturday.

Stewy

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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 1:17 pm Post subject:
Might go to the Asparagus festival this year. https://www.britishasparagusfestival.org/

Vic

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Location: Sherborne, Dorset

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 1:33 pm Post subject:
Ours was starting to come up... and then it snowed. Had two rather elderly, tired spears yesterday and I think the next picking will be a while...

tigger

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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 1:33 pm Post subject:
Picked a bunch of wild asparagus last sunday in the woods.

Vic

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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 1:39 pm Post subject:
Ate some wonderful asparagus risotto near Bologna the week before last!

tigger

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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 1:49 pm Post subject:
Altedo?

LynneA

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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 5:28 pm Post subject:
Some of the crowns I planted earlier this year are starting to poke their heads above ground. Hopefully, this time next year, I'll be getting ready to roast them in small bundles held together with streaky bacon, drizzled with olive oil and showered with a generous grinding of black pepper. More likely though I'll look at the bed and wonder where all the b****y couch has come from

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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 5:32 pm Post subject: Re: Asparagus...

sean wrote:

Saw the first Cornish asparagus in the greengrocer's this morning.

We're all coming round to yours for tea.
A.

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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 6:01 pm Post subject: Re: Asparagus...

sean wrote:

Saw the first Cornish asparagus in the greengrocer's this morning.

Did you buy any of the 'foreign' asparagus then?

jamanda
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 9:51 pm Post subject:

tigger wrote:

Picked a bunch of wild asparagus last sunday in the woods.

I only know one place that grows over here, and I think it's protected.

jamanda
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 9:53 pm Post subject: Re: Asparagus...

Treacodactyl wrote:

sean wrote:

Saw the first Cornish asparagus in the greengrocer's this morning.

Did you buy any of the 'foreign' asparagus then?

No, because I was doing tea (Chicken curry and DS saag - ramsoms and ground elder). But I'm sre we'll having some before long.

cab

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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 08 10:52 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

tigger wrote:

Picked a bunch of wild asparagus last sunday in the woods.

I only know one place that grows over here, and I think it's protected.

Keep an eye out for overgrown sparrowgrass plants around hedges, old railway lines etc. wherever in the country it is farmed, it isn't that uncommon to encounter 'domestic' asparagus self seeded in the wild.

Ours in the garden is throwing up plenty of spears at the moment.

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