4 days until graduation
What a glorious day! this will be our 2nd day of 75 degree weather. I am so ready for summer and great weather.
I went into my garden this morning to look at soil conditions and begin planning which vegetables to plant and saw the most beautiful site... the asparagus that I have been cultivating for three years now is in full bloom. I got so excited I started talking to it. My neighbor probably thinks I'm loony - lol!
Anyway, the reason I'm so excited is because I started that asparagus from seed with no idea that it takes three years to fully grow. After year one I was confused because only some green wisps grew the entire summer. I looked it up on the internet and found out about the number of years. Year two, the little wisps grew into tall - 5ft - wisps but still no asparagus. At the end of the season I tied the wisps to the fence and hoped for the best. This winter some deer chewed on the wisps and I thought they had killed the asparagus because the wisps were dry, brown and dead looking. The internet did not tell me what to do about this...I went outside this morning to trim, what I thought were. dead wisps and found asparagus spears growing between the wisps. Some of it was already 10' long!
I'm going to look up recipes later. I read that asparagus is an annual plant. I wont have to plant again for at least 12 years and it will still grow and grow.
I went into my garden this morning to look at soil conditions and begin planning which vegetables to plant and saw the most beautiful site... the asparagus that I have been cultivating for three years now is in full bloom. I got so excited I started talking to it. My neighbor probably thinks I'm loony - lol!
Anyway, the reason I'm so excited is because I started that asparagus from seed with no idea that it takes three years to fully grow. After year one I was confused because only some green wisps grew the entire summer. I looked it up on the internet and found out about the number of years. Year two, the little wisps grew into tall - 5ft - wisps but still no asparagus. At the end of the season I tied the wisps to the fence and hoped for the best. This winter some deer chewed on the wisps and I thought they had killed the asparagus because the wisps were dry, brown and dead looking. The internet did not tell me what to do about this...I went outside this morning to trim, what I thought were. dead wisps and found asparagus spears growing between the wisps. Some of it was already 10' long!
I'm going to look up recipes later. I read that asparagus is an annual plant. I wont have to plant again for at least 12 years and it will still grow and grow.
:o)
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