Asparagus is not just for spring. Try these tips for a continuous harvest. Have you thought about devoting some of your vegetable garden space to asparagus? A bed will last for at least 25 years and ...

Buy a container, ball-in-burlap or bare-root tree or shrub? Which will result in a more successful transplant? A little scientific inquiry will help in understanding what occurs when removing a plant ...

A few weeks ago I naively bought a few six-packs of beautiful, ferny little asparagus seedling plants, thinking that since local asparagus production is disappearing, given over to out-of-state ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Asparagus is a long-lived, perennial member of the lily family. If you planted healthy, disease-free crowns — root systems of 1-year-old plants grown from seed — each crown should ...

Asparagus is a long-lived perennial vegetable. If you planted healthy, disease-free crowns (root systems of 1-year-old plants grown from seed), each crown should produce half a pound of spears per ...

Asparagus roots do not like waterlogged soils that will lead to root rot. It prefers a soil pH of 6.5-7.5, and will not do well if the pH is less than 6.0. Have the soil tested to determine phosphorus ...

There's nothing quite like freshly picked asparagus from your own garden. It might sound exaggerated, but I promise you that there's no comparison between store-bought and homegrown asparagus. So, ...

Do you like asparagus? Those tender green shoots are some of the earliest vegetables of spring, but the season for fresh homegrown asparagus is quickly winding down. Garden master Jim Duthie tells ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! We definitely had a taste of summer over last weekend, as temperatures rose into the mid-eighties. However, we are back to reality with more moderate ...