Sunday, September 27, 2015

Tips On How To Plant And Grow Asparagus

By Della Monroe


There are people who loves to plant in their backyards and to harvest their own fruits and vegetables. They usually have it because they want to make sure that the food they eat is safe, less expenses and some of us just really loves to plant. Aside from the fact that it beautify our homes, it actually creates a soothing and relaxing vibe, and it help us connect with nature.

One of the most common vegetable that people wants to eat, not because they are just delicious, but they are nutritional are the asparagus. They are organic food that can help boost the nutrients in our body. Here is some tip on how to plant and grow asparagus in an orderly manner.

Before we start talking about on planting it, let us learn some important things about asparagus. They are related to onion and garlic and its shoots are the ones can be eaten because when a bud starts blooming it becomes hard. In other countries, there are a lot of ways to eat and to prepare and they are common to restaurants as side dish.

It takes a lot patience because it usually takes 2 to 3 years for it to produce but it can be productive up to 20 to 30 years. Spring season is typically the perfect time for you to start planting an asparagus since the soil can be worked on. Remove all the weeds and start digging the beds for about 2 to 4 inch layer of manure and compost soil.

Just check and have a good water system and make 6 inch trench where it is 6 to 12 inches deep. Have a mound inside the trench and start putting the crowns, wherein they are apart of about 15 to 18 inches. Once this was finish, try covering them with soil as a deep two inches and start watering them.

Exposed its stem for 3 to 4 inch since you need to fill the trench again with another layer of soil. Place an amount of mulch to do the layering again and once it has been properly place try to water them again. Cutting down of dead foliage can help a lot to avoid them being rotten.

For the following years, you can harvest them when you noticed that they become more establish and vegetative and the spear is thicker than a pencil. They can be harvested for several weeks once the spears starts to show. After the harvest, allow them to grow again and replenish their nutrients for the next production.

You have the white asparagus, can even grow without so much sunlight and they are delicate, it has fewer fiber composition but it is much sweeter. The other one is the purple asparagus, it is originally purple but once cooked it turns into color green and they have fewer spears. This are its common classification to help you in identifying the one you will be needing.

In preparing it, just avoid ways that you might lose its nutrients. They can help against cancer which has the ability to neutralize cells that are damage. It has a high of amino acid where it can help people who have kidney problems.




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