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  • From: "GlenEcoFarm" <Glenecofarm AT planetcomm.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] organic asparagus
  • Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:19:33 -0400

I have been mulching our asparagus with wood shavings from our neighbor's horse stalls. It seems to help, because the horse manure has nitrogen and boron.
We are living in a limestone rock/soil area.

Our neighbors seem to have even better success by cutting or burning the old asparagus canes in winter/spring and fertilizing with his mule manure. When his asparagus patch is about mid season in harvesting he mows asparagus and weeds down losing one week of harvest. Thereafter he cuts the weeds between the rows with a weed eater.
My perennial battle has been keeping the weeds from outgrowing the asparagus.
Fighting for asparagus,
Christine from VA

Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 6:16 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] organic asparagus



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)


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

509-670-8958
rachel AT sunshinefarmmarket.com




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