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    Asparagus crowns...

    Just bought some asparagus crowns as the first purchase for my brand new allotment! I haven't even started on preparing the beds yet (possibly a little too eager ) should i put them in pots to start while I prepare the ground? or would it be better to get them into the plot as fast as possible?
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    Plan your plot out and allocate your permanent beds first - a couple of months in pots now won't hurt.
    Last edited by Scarlet; 27-03-2016, 10:32 PM.

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      Try to clear the beds as well as you can. I took over an abandoned plot last year, and rushed to get my crowns in, because I too had been tempted and got them before I was ready. There were so many bindweed roots, they were overwhelmed. I dug them all up in November and planted them elsewhere. I'm currently working on clearing the bindweed best i can, but it will probably take years I would go with the pot option too.
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        I'm currently working on clearing the bindweed best i can, but it will probably take years I would go with the pot option too.
        BarleySugar here's a tip for you to get rid of bindweed but it involves using roundup weedkiller and a method that you can use that doesn't involve using a spray and you can do it with other stuff growing there.

        Put a garden cane in the ground where the bindweed is growing so that it winds up the cane, let it grow and wind up quite a bit of the cane so there is a few leaves on it. Wearing a rubber glove wet it with neat concentrated roundup weedkiller and rub it up and down the cane wetting the bindweed. Leave it and watch it collapse in a couple of weeks and die and not affect your crops growing around it, the roots also die and rot in the ground. Before long you will be bindweed free and won't have the problem any more, that's how I got rid of mine.

        That method was what Alan Titchmarsh once explained how to get rid of Bindweed whilst other plants grew happily next to it unaffected and it works, you can also do the same and use the gel as well.
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        • #5
          Pots it is then! Hope muddy boots suggestion helps you with your bind weed problems barley!

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