Watch how an asparagus growing from a bare-root to crowns and young plant in this time lapse. The root was planting in a pot ...

A surprising byproduct from your home can support long-term asparagus growth, improve soil balance, and strengthen plants ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Q: How do I grow asparagus? Is it better to plant from seed or transplants? Are there any other perennial vegetable plants that I can plant that will come back every year? A. Asparagus is easy to grow ...

The roots have nodules where more grass leaves grow, so if you break off a root at a nodule, the plant continues to grow. The ground was still quite wet when I was weeding my asparagus patch, so I ...