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  • From: Rachel Evans <rachel AT sunshinefarmmarket.com>
  • To: "market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] organic asparagus
  • Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:16:36 -0700


We're in our first year of growing organic asparagus, five 200-foot rows.

We didn't mulch it right off and now we're facing the question of, really, what are we doing?

With the high cost of straw, is it really the only option for growing organic asparagus? We can get woodchips free from the city and I want to start using those to mulch in the paths in our perennial flower beds, but I"m nervous about using them elsewhere as mulch, lest they suck all the N out of the ground.

Is anyone growing asparagus without mulch?

We're thinking we'll plant Dutch white clover in the paths as a permanent cover and then just have to bite the bullet on the cost and mulch it heavily with straw every year in the beds themselves.

Thoughts?

(Sorry to bring things back to such mundane matters after all the good conversation re seeds)


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Rachel Evans
The Sunshine Farm
37 Highway 97A
Chelan, WA 98816

509-670-8958
rachel AT sunshinefarmmarket.com








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