Susan’s Gardening Tips

Here is a guest article from an organic gardener offering tips on how to plant asparagus in spring vegetable gardens.

How to be Successful Planting and Growing Organic Asparagus

Superp ASPARAGUS Facts

Asparagus historically was classified a member of the lily classification, along with onions and garlic. It now has its own family.

The native regions for growing asparagus are in Spain, Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany.

If you’re interested in your health, growing asparagus is a wonderful low-calorie source of folate and potassium.

Peru enjoys growing asparagus; it leads the industry in asparagus exports. The United States in addition enjoys consuming asparagus; it is the foremost importer as of 2004.

When To Propagate Asparagus

You can propagate asparagus from “crowns” or seeds. A lot of gardeners start out with crowns as seeds add an additional year to harvest. Read the rest of this entry

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This guest article offers tips on how to grow asparagus from seed indoors, including soaking the seeds, selecting the correct planting medium, and preparing the containers.

Learn How to Grow Asparagus in 8.5 Minutes

Getting Started INDOORS

Though growing asparagus is a cool-weather crop and it’s truly not required to grow it indoors, we prefer supplying you the alternative to do so with these basic instructions.

I covered a bit of how to start indoors in a previous segment on germinating your seeds. This section will give you more valuable information.

You can soak your seeds per the USDA suggestion (if you believe that your government knows best) for 4 or five days. Other people advocate growing the seeds in potting soil after soaking two hours. Either will do the job. Read the rest of this entry

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