Asparagus is one of the most delicious vegetables around. Even better, it's in season in spring, much earlier than many other veggies. While asparagus is often quite expensive at grocery stores, it's ...

Get your perennial vegetables in the ground and they'll come back year after year, saving your money at the supermarket. When you think about the expensive vegetables at the store, you know, the ...

Answer: There are many reasons people want to grow asparagus in raised beds. In the Piedmont, our heavy clay soils can make it difficult to grow asparagus because the soil doesn’t drain well. By ...

Q: I am a North Little Rock gardener. My asparagus bed seems be producing smaller diameter shoots, which I am allowing to grow into ferns. Could the bed be getting old (it's approximately 10 years old ...

If you like asparagus, potatoes and onions, that's good. It's time to plant and they are easy to grow. If you haven't tried yet, let's give it a shot. If you have grown these plants before, I might ...

Spring is the ideal time to plant asparagus. Properly planted and maintained, an asparagus bed will yield a harvest for 20 years or longer. Here's how to plant this perennial vegetable: • Although you ...

With West Texas weather being so variable, it’s hard to know what to do in the landscape or garden this time of year. There are arctic cold snaps with warm, sunny days in between, making it difficult ...

Since an asparagus bed can last 15 to 20 years it seems prudent to consider an important fact about this perennial plant. Asparagus is a “dioecious” plant (Asparagusis Dioecious). In other words, it ...

Over the last week, I've had a couple small asparagus harvests. I always look forward to spring asparagus in my garden and a few wild sprouts in the fence rows. Although it is a little late to plant, ...

Watch how an asparagus growing from a bare-root to crowns and young plant in this time lapse. The root was planting in a pot ...

Asparagus is a favorite home garden vegetable throughout Kansas. It is, generally, the first fresh vegetable to be harvested in the spring, which makes it a welcome addition to the garden.

The plant: Long before there was a quick “New York minute,” the Romans were using a phrase coined by Emperor Augustus, “as quick as cooking asparagus” or “velocius quam asparagi conquantur.” The plant ...