Planted 1yr. crowns from HDepot, last spring here in south Florida 10a. I’ve been harvesting market size spears since march. Only one of six crowns survived but has provided about 6-8 spears, all about the thickness of my index finger. I’ve allowed two to grow in order to fuel the plant. This year I added 8 additional Mary Washing and 10 Jersey Knight Giant crowns.🤞🏿

Asparagus and Rhubarb are my gonna be the first things I plant when I buy a house. They both last decades and take several years before you can harvest. I've never actually had rhubarb, but It sounds exactly like something I'd adore baking with. Even if I don't like it I can always harvest and give away, it still functions as an eyecatching ornamental as well.

Perfect timing as I stare at my asparagus roots waiting to be planted and my MYKE’s order just came in.

I have to disagree with you about not wanting any female asparagus plants. Yes, harvest is less. But birds spread the seeds and you end up with surprise patches. And bird started patches do way better. At the gift that keeps on giving.

Thank you for this video! I’m growing asparagus for the first time from crowns and only one out of the three I planted has made it, a purple one called Jersey Knight. I replanted my Mary Washington with a second set of crowns, I am really hoping they grow. I’m going to check the flowers on the Jersey Knight, thanks for sharing how to tell the difference!!

I initially planted seeds for our asparagus. The first year was disappointing. The second year was a little better. So i bought 20 three year old starts and planted them. It's a weed! My wife and I are eating asparagus 5 nights a week for four or five months a year now.

I think I have a couple female asparagus. Now that I know you can be successful growing asparagus from seed, I'm going to save the berries this year and plant them in my new patch and see what happens. Thanks for the info!

I had to dig up an asparagus patch and re-used the soil in another spot - and found a surprise purple asparagus spear today! It was so good raw, it even had a little natural salty flavor. I have to find a new spot for asparagus because the ferns are a preferred ladybug habitat!

My Grandmother Kohl grew and blanched her asparagus. A treasured memory for my mother.

This is exactly what I needed, thank you! Also, I'm not sure which variety you have, but alpine strawberries can do pretty well in some shade 🙂

Love your content!! Super helpful & informative and calming to watch as well. ☺️

Thank you Jacques, I like how you keep things real. No fancy raised beds, just in the soil planting. Since I’m a new subscriber I’m not sure if you have raised beds which are very handy, but some people can’t afford to buy them let alone fill them. I for one am one of those, in the dirt is free and that’s how I like it! Thank you again Jacques 🌸💚🙃

You’ve inspired me to go mulch my asparagus tomorrow.

This was fantastic as this Spring I planted asparagus for the first time. I'll be checking tomorrow to see if my 8 crowns are m or f. Also my Son had asked if I could plant white asparagus, well now I can tell him I did 😂. For sure going to add purple next Spring.

This is great. Thank you. I can't wait for my Asparagus to grow and get harvested. I just planted the crowns this year so it will take a while.

I love your videos and learn from them alot and inspired from you and eric to grow luffas and also getting first cucumber

I’m excited to do a full asparagus bed in my new home! Hope they grow well in 6b

I picked up some purple asparagus at my first farmers market visit of the summer this week and didn’t know what to do with it, I’ll take a look for raw recipes on your recommendation!

thanks for sharing, I planted crowns this year and didn't know about the male and female plants.

Thank you for the asparagus lesson. I learned quite a few new things. I haven’t planted my seeds yet because everyone always makes asparagus seem so complicated and labor intensive. After watching this I know better now. Those seeds will be getting wet shortly. Cheers Jacques ✊

I am in Missouri zone 6a and I am so glad I watched this video! I have so many asparagus and now I know a lot of them are female! I’ve shown on my videos the wildness of them. They get get crazy huge. 😍

Well today I learnt how to identify if I have a male or female asparagus plant before waiting to see if fruit forms on the fronds. I grow my asparagus in large pots (minimum 40cm diameter), and haven't had any issues so far. I've gotten a modest number of spears - would have been more except I don't always get out in the garden often enough to harvest at a good time. I've grown two different varieties from seed - Connover's Colossal and Purple Passion. Hoping to grow another variety from seed later this year (in southern hemisphere, that'll be during our spring) called Fat Bastard. I don't mind playing the long game with asparagus!

I planted in 2020 and decided to transplant so this spring because I don't like where I had them before.... so hard! But I got them out. And they are growing well again

I learnrd that my former neighbors either love me or hate me. I planted asparagus along the fence line but then moved shortly afterwards so never got any spears just tall plants.

Ooooo I need to go home and see what my plants actually are, thanks!

Mine are mostly female and produce big spears. I don't mind a few volunteers every now and then.

I always thought asparagus needs a perfect bed and lots of space. Having watched this I might dare to try to grow it. (Brutal title of the video 😄)

I have a couple spears coming up :) although I planted from crowns.

yea i get you about the aspargus plants being female i think the problem is we are always getting rid of our male or female plants and in nature they are suppose to be together. i get it its may cause more work but i may pull the female ones and put them in their own bed to gather seeds, i dont ever want to get rid of seed makers in my garden. Love the video i learned so much from this video now that i know i have all male asparagus. you explained it so well now I know whats happening.

I started my asparagus from seed this year. It died back when I transplanted it out in spring, but keeps producing tiny ferns so I know the seedlings survived well enough. Looking forward to three/four years time.

Oh my gosh, so glad mine are male's! But even then i little more waiting maybe until next year 🤷‍♀️ Thank you for the great information. God bless!

Best video yet! I learned so much! Thanks Jacque!

Our asparagus patch produced poorly this season, in spite of good care- now I realize almost all of the plants are female. Thanks Jacqes!

Great, thanks. I love asparagus. Might go for the purple one. Once I find the right spot for it.

Thanks Jacques, just the information I was looking for!

Very good video. Explained things very thoroughly. Thanks !!!

thanks for the female asparagus tip, I didn't know that and one of the asparagus I started from seeds has berries

This was extremely helpful and informative. Thank You!!

Great info. No idea about female asparagus plants.

In April 2017 I bought some 2 year old asparagus crowns and planted them, and I had no idea about this male/female thing. I let mine make berries (I thought they all just do that!). It's been over 6 more years since then and I get a small amount of asparagus from the two crowns that survived (the remaining 8 all died or were killed by our landscapers who thought they were weeds lol). Not a single "new" asparagus plant has popped up btw in those 6 years of my ignorance, so maybe those berries aren't very effective :D

so much useful information as always in your videos. thank you

Great video, keep them coming!

Lol..i ordered 30 crowns..all had seeds..i got ripped off..i ordered from renee seedd this year and actually planting some today ..THE CROWNS LOOK LIKE THEY ARE HUGE 5 YEAR PLANTS...REALLY NICE...I HAVE HIGH HOPES...

Great vid Jacques 👍🤙i love asparagus,i have a big patch and so delicious!!

I have to move an asparagus in the food forest, so was good to see it before doing. Although we want it to survive so will wait for a few months for it to sleep. With the strawberries, we have an alpine or wild type strawberry. Not sure what its call in the States. They do amazing in shaded areas and fruit excessively lol.

Ive seen a rubarb get huge!! Maybe 3 feet diameter! Exited to see yours!

Good morning

I planted asparagus seeds in the first house I had, moved two years later as the spears were appearing. Never got to eat any. Oh well.

The are papers written that prove female asparagus is just as good quality/quantity or even more than male asparagus is. I just finished reading some of them. The purpose of using only males was most bebificial to Commercial growers as females and their seedlings were considered weeds and it cost too much to 'maintain' them. Commercialy yes, use male but the home gardeners best bet is to use both and thin, transplant/give away your new asparagus plants and let someone else enjoy the bounty too!

Very interesting thanks

I dont know about crowns being pre selected for male plants...if so, they have done a poor job around here! I've probably planted 20 crowns here and over 100 from seeds. I have about half a dozen females from crowns. I plant in deep wood chips, mulch with deer bones, poke weed, cuckleburr leaves, chicken compost, sticks, and more wood chips. I mark the females and take every spear they put up until they don't put anything else up.

I thought asparagus loved moist feet but yours looks regularly watered. I will try them in pots so I can move them around.

Might be good to keep the female and use the seeds to renew planting beds

How well does asparagus do in containers/buckets? (zone 8b, western WA) Right now all of my gardening is in containers and I would love to grow asparagus but hearing about how deeply they root I am not sure it is worth a two to three year experiment to find out. BTW - I love your content!

Interesting, I have asparagus, that I grew from crowns and they have lots of seeds, they produce all the time, it's been 2 years, ap should I tear them put. I thought you were to wait until they die to cut them backm

Jacque your chard is amazing...did all rooting powder have mychorizzal?

Hi Jacque I have seen you use this method in this video a few times today or tonight and I am wondering if this technique could be used in Australia Queensland for other vegetables,herbs or fruit plants? From Tammy Marie Daveson

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So if you are wanting your Asparagus patch to fill out and get fuller, do you keep the females?

i planted two year asparagus crowns with my strawberries this year, and now i think i want to move them to their own bed. they are shading the strawberries too much. do you think i can move them without damaging next year's harvest? or are they too mature?

Why don’t I want my asparagus to self seed? Wouldn’t that give me more asparagus next year?

I'm a bit suspicious about generic mycorrhizal inoculation. Don't plants have pretty specific simbiosis with specific mycorrhizae?

Wait, so you CAN grow different varieties together!?

Your asparagus looks great! by the way where did you get your hat?

You got a lot to learn about asparagus my friend. KZfaq doesn’t teach you everything you need to know.

Jacques, I know this is an asparagus video, but I've always wanted to plant rhubarb. Any suggestions for my zone 9b garden? Thanks!

The internet pretty much unanimously says 18" spacing for raised bed asparagus. I was planning to use an Epic 8 in 1 bed, but after adding up the inches, it seems like I can only get 6 plants in a bed that size. 8 if I crowd in two more at angles. Plus, you can't just buy 6 plants anywhere...suggestions?

What's going on with those beet greens on the right? are you gonna let those go to seed?

I would have used the female plant to propagate babies... Move it to an unused part of the yard & let 'er rip. Then you would have replacements for your bed or to even expand your patch at some future date. But that's just me...

Thats kinda sexist taking the female out. 😂

White means it's under ground

I don't think this is right for a healthy crop for years 😊

I guess you can act like China with children