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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45676
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 1:38 pm Post subject:
Must send the wife to the farm shop

DawnMK

Joined: 01 Dec 2008
Posts: 895
Location: Buckinghamshire

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 2:27 pm Post subject:
were picking our first this evening for dinner tonight, steamed served with garlic butter

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 2:59 pm Post subject:
I picked our first spears a few days ago - all THREE of them

DawnMK

Joined: 01 Dec 2008
Posts: 895
Location: Buckinghamshire

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 3:09 pm Post subject:
I think we have about 10

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 3:10 pm Post subject:
Blimey, that's a veritable FEAST

DawnMK

Joined: 01 Dec 2008
Posts: 895
Location: Buckinghamshire

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 3:26 pm Post subject:
They seemed to have grown nice and fat and slowely with this cold wet spell, we had a few when we had that hot spell at the start of April end of March

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 4:17 pm Post subject:
I noticed this morning that I have 4 very slender stalks up - I think I shall cut them for this evening

mark

Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 2191
Location: Leeds

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 4:32 pm Post subject:
ooh feeling really priveleged - my first shoots came up several weeks ago in the warm weather at the start of april ! Now in second flush!

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 7:06 pm Post subject:
We have been eating for about a month.I just love it.

chicken feed

Joined: 27 Aug 2009
Posts: 2677

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 7:11 pm Post subject:
we gave our sow some for a treat tonight to celebrate her good news

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 7:12 pm Post subject:
So, come on, hands up, admit it. Who has funny smelling wee after eating asparagus?

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35057
Location: Devon

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 7:15 pm Post subject:

Green Rosie wrote:

So, come on, hands up, admit it. Who has funny smelling wee after eating asparagus?

There is a theory that it isn't that it makes your pee smell or not, but that only some people have the nasal receptors for the the chemical in the smelly pee. But it may be nonsense.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 7:37 pm Post subject:
According to my googling it's not the only thing it changes the smell of

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 9:11 pm Post subject:

chicken feed wrote:

we gave our sow some for a treat tonight to celebrate her good news

You fed asparagus to your pig??????

Bungo

Joined: 21 Dec 2011
Posts: 354
Location: Wye Valley

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 9:22 pm Post subject:
We have a few shoots , but can only admire them , as they were only planted last year

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