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chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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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.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 07 8:32 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

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...

I now have visions of you grazing your asparagus bed!

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45676
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 07 9:44 am Post subject:

mrutty wrote:

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.

Don't rush mate

Mind you still ain't sent your cheque

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45676
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 07 9:48 am Post subject:

tigger wrote:

https://www.italianmade.com/foods/subcat25014.cfm

Virtually the whole of our village is an asparagus bed

Bit too far away though.

Blinking good web site Tigger

Vic

Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 387
Location: Sherborne, Dorset

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 07 2:04 pm Post subject:
Tigger, I've bookmarked that website - really useful (especially as I'm off to Bologna next week, and then Liguria). Already doing a bit of meal planning...

tigger

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

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 07 2:35 pm Post subject:
picked a good big bunch of wild asparagus with my middle daughter yesterday, in the woods at the coast. She is, unfortunately one of those mini-foragers who have no sense of danger "I CAN'T leave it there, it's much better than the others we've got, and I can reach it if I throw myself into the bramble bushes!" yes, that's why it's still there and no-one else has picked it!

Magicbeans

Joined: 15 Apr 2007
Posts: 12
Location: On the beach

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 07 3:06 pm Post subject:
We bought asparagus seeds and a couple of crowns - ooo back in 2005/2006 - we knew we were moving so planted these in window boxes - so they could travel with us and mature along the way.... Now we have a garden and I ought to plant them out - but well one is about 3ft tall (should reach the Giants Castle soon...) so not sure if I should wait now until they stop growing or to go for it......

Mary-Jane

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

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 07 3:35 pm Post subject:
We've got an asparagus bed...just. It's just been built and filled with earth...errrm, and that's about it. Any suggestions as to which breed of asparagus crown we should try?

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7761
Location: 91� N

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 07 4:07 pm Post subject:
I have aparagus seeds just germinating now but no idea of where to plant them. I'm not sure they'll go in the new garden and have no idea if in the new place I'll be able to find a free allotment (oh well perhaps I can find a small field to rent!)

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 07 7:59 am Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

Treacodactyl wrote:

I now have visions of you grazing your asparagus bed!

First shoots are just appearing in our bed, give it a couple of days and I'll be out grazing.

doctoral

Joined: 19 Oct 2006
Posts: 697
Location: Now in Surrey ... I need a good avatar

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 07 9:03 am Post subject:
... just eaten my first spear from the garden - nothing else coming yet, but it tasted good chopped up with some purple sprouting ...

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 07 1:01 pm Post subject:

Had a super meal yesterday of dexter steak, jersey royals, baby carrots, PSB and asparagus, with lots of melted butter. Pity I didn't grow any of it, but it did all come from the farmers market, so it was all local and pretty fresh. Added to a trek up a hill and picnic of local pork products (and a imported bottle of wine

or two

) it was a pretty fine day, foodwise. Might try hollandiase next time too.

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