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  • From: Bobbett <bobbett AT windstream.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] asparagus
  • Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:00:41 -0400

Sue Wells wrote:

 

We have lived here Almost 2 years. Yesterday, my husband noticed asparagus, or looks like nice thick stalks of asparagus growing in the back yard. This has been mowed at least twice this year. When we moved in, there was no patch of this, and grass growing all in this area. Is there something else that looks like asparagus?

Knot Weed when it FIRST comes up looks like reddish asparagus (and can be eaten, btw, when it's only a few inches tall; taller and it's poisonous, or so I've heard).

More than likely birds planted your patch.  For the first few years you might not have noticed the teeny tiny thin ferns.  It could also be an old patch that was neglected and forgotten, and now you're seeing stuff because perhaps the grass grew slower than it did.  We have such a patch left to us by the previous owners.  We pick from it until the grass grows too tall, then we mow, and wait for it to come up again.
Bobbett, KY zone 6
http://www.localharvest.org/farms/M19189



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