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    Asparagus Advice Please

    I found out that we have asparagus - I like eating it but have never grown it so.....
    the bed is approx 16 x 5, is completely overgrown and the asparagus was apparently weedy thiis year.
    So...if we remove all of the dead stuff, cover it in a deep layer of manure (I have looked in my books and got contradictary info on asparagus and poo), then cover with black plastic for a couple of months will this do any good?
    All advice greatly received
    I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

    Outreach co-ordinator for the Gnome, Pixie and Fairy groups within the Nutters Club.
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    I'm no specialist! But would only only presume the "Asparagus" was weedy due to competition from weed, which in my initial research when we set our beds up two years ago is a definite No! No!

    I'd personally clear the beds as best as, from weed that is! Bang on a mulch of home made compost, nothing too heavy in nutrients! n try let it recover slowly!

    I certainly wouldn't cover it totally putting in total darkness and restrain it's natural growth! Think this one is a "We'll make the best of a bad thing" n let it get on with it on it's own n persevere!

    After all! This is a crop once in can serve it's purpurse for many years coming!
    "Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad"

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    • #3
      Liquid seaweed feed, fresh seaweed if you can get it, sand and a bit of crushed gritting rock salt and sand should sort it out!
      Seriously!

      And just cut back the stems and bend the remains over so they don't act like a funnel directing rainwater down into the heart of the plant.

      Lucky you!...I had to leave mine behind when I came here and so far not made a new bed.
      *sob
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      Location....Normandy France

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      • #4
        Ta both good advice
        I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

        Outreach co-ordinator for the Gnome, Pixie and Fairy groups within the Nutters Club.

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          Apart from weed-it and mulch-it as already recommended we cover ours with woven weed suppressing membrane (i.e. lets the water through, but not the light) during the winter - until the first spears appear. It stops weed growth during the winter, so reduces the hand weeding effort.

          If your bed is smothered in weeds it may be tough for a year or two getting on top of that - hand weeding is the only way I'm afraid.
          K's Garden blog the story of the creation of our garden

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