Growing Asparagus from Seeds
How to grow asparagus from seeds
I would like to describe my adventures with growing white and green asparagus from seeds. This matter was not difficult, although all the sellers on the market warned me that I did not build bright hopes.
To hedge, nevertheless for a day the seeds were soaked in a stimulant. The land for planting seedlings took the usual purchase.
Filled her small plastic boxes, put in each 3-4 seed (again for safety) and covered with a centimeter layer of earth. And everything went up!
Watered the seedlings with warm water, several times fed the root of the human-tom. My beautiful beauty grew by leaps and bounds, delighting my little son with a broom, who, on the sly, began to eat them up. In order to save the seedlings from extermination, we urgently took her to the garden for a transplant. The place for asparagus is better to choose a spacious one, as it grows very much and breadth, and upwards. We planted it along the fence so that no one interfered.
The main subtlety of planting asparagus is that the wells need only be filled with soil by half, so that in the course of the summer there is still room for soil to be poured. Then by the end of the summer all asparagus will be bored from all sides (it is in this earth burial mound that its most valuable shoots will be formed).
After planting, I drenched it well and wrapped the seedlings with the decapitated pine needles. As soon as the asparagus started to grow and new green shoots appeared, fed a little carbamide (a matchbox on 10 L of water) and sprinkled the earth. In the first year, of course, we did not try anything, because the fruit of asparagus, grown from seeds, starts for the third season.
Read more: How to grow asparagus in the country
The main thing is the timely watering of asparagus.
In autumn it is necessary to add phosphorus-potassium fertilizers so that it will overwinter well.
Actually, this vegetable is absolutely undemanding and very grateful. Asparagus contains a lot of folic acid (which is very necessary for pregnant women), vitamins and minerals. Especially it is useful to people with excess weight (improves metabolism and stimulates the work of the intestine) and children.
So, dear gardeners, give little attention to such a miracle as asparagus, and your loved ones will be provided with vitamins in early spring! In addition, selling asparagus is also a good income for the family budget.
On a note:
Although asparagus is a low-calorie product, it contains vitamins K, A, C, E and group B, folic acid, selenium, copper, manganese, potassium, calcium, iron, and a host of other essential trace elements. And asparagus is a great source of fiber!
Author O. Mihailov
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SPARGE IN DECEMBER
To get fresh asparagus in the winter, it can be kicked out. To do this, I put the dug rhizomes in late September in plastic bags with holes of 1,5-2 cm. They must be stored at rest for a whole month at a temperature of + 8 ... + 10 “C. My asparagus is stored in the cellar. After this short period of rest, the rhizomes are transferred to a warmer room - the dressing room of the house. Having taken them out of packages, I put them in boxes with earth. The soil should cover the asparagus with a palm-wide singing.
After planting, be sure to water. From above I set the frame, which I cover with a dense fabric. The frame is needed so that asparagus has room to grow. In my dressing room, the temperature is around +15 ° C - optimal for asparagus growth. Shoots grow slowly, but get plump and juicy. The first crop can be harvested in a couple of weeks after planting!
Asparagus is collected every 3-4 days, because it quickly becomes fibrous, especially in the sun. In no case can you twist the shoots, much less break them out - only cut them with a sharp knife.
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Cultivation of asparagus.
I grew asparagus for a long time, but only for decoration of bouquets - its stems are very beautiful! I didn’t even think about eating, I always thought that asparagus is a delicacy. But somehow, at a party I tried a dish with this plant, and I really liked it. I decided to plant asparagus, and immediately sowed it with seeds on my site, but the results were poor. Therefore, it was necessary in the autumn, in September, to propagate it by dividing the rhizomes with 1-2 -XNUMX shoots above.
The place chose enough illuminated, weed around the weeds. Asparagus loves fertile soil, so before planting it brought in manure (30-40 kg per 10 sq. M.), As well as superphosphate and potassium salt (according to 0,5 kg
on 10 sq. m. m). On the bed I made a small trench, into which the rhizomes were laid at a distance of 30 cm from each other. Moreover, they formed low hills above them to protect them from frosts.
Asparagus is unpretentious, but at the same time needs timely watering (the main thing is to prevent stagnation of water), fertilizer and loosening. Its productivity depends on top dressing; therefore, it constantly introduced divorced bird droppings and complex fertilizers for planting.
In mid-September she cut old stems, hozed plants and poured peat or compost from above to prevent frost. Now in my garden grows a green delicacy!
Galina TIKHONYUK, Taganrog