It is cut by hand Dean, huge fields of people walking along rows, bent double for next to nothing pay. Near where my daughter lives is a pub where they have the asparagus sale every year. Supposed to be quite an event. Will you have a party when you harvest it Dean
Yes got rhubarb on the plot. Easy to grow - buy a crown, (or get someone to donate you one if they split theirs) bung it in with plenty of manure and leave it to settle for a year or so - bung another big dollop of manure on it in winter. Then harvest the stalks until mid-summer. Don't take too many stalks too soon though as it needs to feed itself and get established.
Yeah! I've seen it B'j! If I remember rightly it was a feature on one of Monty's french garden jobbies a few weeks back! (must remember to catch up on them, not watched for the last few weeks, plus A to Z)
Oh, n all the excitement of getting ready for the forthcoming growing season! I forgot to mention! The foul mouthed,obnoctious, horrible load neighbour moved out last weekend!
Hate asparagus, but love rhubarb. Must dig up that crown for daughter to have- added to to do list. It wont survive if left in the fruit bed, as way too dry & impoverished conditions there now.
Still to sow a single seed, but plan to get something done this week before am 'stabbed' again on Friday.
Have to go up to daughter's house tomorrow to take delivery of her stored furniture. Thermals at the ready- her boiler, sorry Geoff, was working, but then lost pressure & when she tried to sort it out a la video instructions on u-tube/from OH one of the knobs fell off!! OH got blamed coz he'd turned it previously & being quite strong it was far too snug according to daughter.... So her house is freezing at the mo- great! Boiler being sorted for her next week & no, am not having anything to do with it...J.
Hi forkers--Jean, we used to eat goat regularly, as there were feral ones on the mountain where I used to live. The young ones tasted much like lamb. I ate kangaroo in Oz--delish- mind you, it was in a pie. Used to eat venison often, too.
I have grown asparagus--it's labour-intensive to plant, but will produce for over 20 years when established. You have to dig deep trenches, and fill them in with manure while the crowns spread. Nothing like picking it fresh!
Deano, I had a lovely asparagus bed, plenty for the freezer, but when it was about 15 years old it got bindweed which was impossible to dig out with the asparagus there, so I used a selective weedkiller that said it didn't affect asparagus. The asparagus started dying , but the bindweed didn't so when it was 18 years old I dug the whole thing up.
Had rhubarb too, easy until last year when it got a huge ants nest in it and it died.
Internet disappeared today so only just catching up.
Cooking OH his favourite loin of cod and asparagus tonight for his birthday then raspberry mousse (garden raspberries from freezer). He likes what he calls "fluffy puddings".
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Now Lottie you need the divorce papers for the scandal
Or a newspaper report
Fascinating
Scone mix is cooked - will have to wait and see
B'j! I'm planning a 9' x 4' bed! will I need a combine?
Jean! an aphrodisykipper!
Right! as anybody grown Rhubarb?
Opp's! Sorry! Cheers Lottie!
It is cut by hand Dean, huge fields of people walking along rows, bent double for next to nothing pay
. Near where my daughter lives is a pub where they have the asparagus sale every year. Supposed to be quite an event. Will you have a party when you harvest it Dean
Yes got rhubarb on the plot. Easy to grow - buy a crown, (or get someone to donate you one if they split theirs) bung it in with plenty of manure and leave it to settle for a year or so - bung another big dollop of manure on it in winter. Then harvest the stalks until mid-summer. Don't take too many stalks too soon though as it needs to feed itself and get established.
Yeah! I've seen it B'j! If I remember rightly it was a feature on one of Monty's french garden jobbies a few weeks back! (must remember to catch up on them, not watched for the last few weeks, plus A to Z)
Oh, n all the excitement of getting ready for the forthcoming growing season! I forgot to mention! The foul mouthed,obnoctious, horrible load neighbour moved out last weekend!
Piece reign's!
You beat me to it Lottie!
Hate asparagus, but love rhubarb. Must dig up that crown for daughter to have- added to to do list. It wont survive if left in the fruit bed, as way too dry & impoverished conditions there now.
Still to sow a single seed, but plan to get something done this week before am 'stabbed' again on Friday.
Have to go up to daughter's house tomorrow to take delivery of her stored furniture. Thermals at the ready- her boiler, sorry Geoff, was working, but then lost pressure & when she tried to sort it out a la video instructions on u-tube/from OH one of the knobs fell off!!
OH got blamed coz he'd turned it previously & being quite strong it was far too snug according to daughter.... 
So her house is freezing at the mo- great! Boiler being sorted for her next week & no, am not having anything to do with it...J.
Hi forkers--Jean, we used to eat goat regularly, as there were feral ones on the mountain where I used to live. The young ones tasted much like lamb. I ate kangaroo in Oz--delish- mind you, it was in a pie. Used to eat venison often, too.
I have grown asparagus--it's labour-intensive to plant, but will produce for over 20 years when established. You have to dig deep trenches, and fill them in with manure while the crowns spread. Nothing like picking it fresh!
Deano, I had a lovely asparagus bed, plenty for the freezer, but when it was about 15 years old it got bindweed which was impossible to dig out with the asparagus there, so I used a selective weedkiller that said it didn't affect asparagus. The asparagus started dying , but the bindweed didn't so when it was 18 years old I dug the whole thing up.
Had rhubarb too, easy until last year when it got a huge ants nest in it and it died.
Internet disappeared today so only just catching up.
Cooking OH his favourite loin of cod and asparagus tonight for his birthday then raspberry mousse (garden raspberries from freezer). He likes what he calls "fluffy puddings".
I had burger and chips
And butterscotch angel delight
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