Oldguyrealy
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When is the best time to transplant Asparagus?
I have some in Raised Bed but was told I didn't want this.
I have some in Raised Bed but was told I didn't want this.
Asparagus?
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hotrodharley
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I’d do after danger of frost passes. Make sure it has all season to establish.
Herb & Suds
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Wherever you put it
You can harvest all the roots now and move in spring
But remember
Put it where you can till it every spring to make it expand
Not really a deep till but turn over the top layer
Why is it bad in raised beds?
You can harvest all the roots now and move in spring
But remember
Put it where you can till it every spring to make it expand
Not really a deep till but turn over the top layer
Why is it bad in raised beds?
DoubleAtotheRON
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I had a 60 ft x 6ft bed of Jersey Giant for about 12 years. Tough to grow in Oklahoma, but well worth it if you have the right climate. The bermuda grass finally took it over while i was away and going through a divorce back in 2010. You gotta plant those roots really deep.. like 18 inches, and throw backfill dirt on it as it grows up through it. Pain in the ass at first, but the rewards are awesome.
Oldguyrealy
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I was told because of the root system Raised Beds are not good but really I haven't seen a problem.
DoubleAtotheRON
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How deep is your raised bed and what zone are you in?
thumper60
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Depends where you live, Here in the northeast us we transplant as soon as the ground can be worked in the spring. they have massive roots an go deep.
Oldguyrealy
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In zone 5, raised bed is 8 inches deep but plants can go deep as they want with no Bottom to the Box.
They have been there for 8 years.
Right now we are in Extreme Drought and ground is hard.
I should know planted 8 Blackberries yesterday.
Going to put most stuff in elevated Beds because I have hard time bending over .
Phytoplankton
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Grown it for years, zone 9 (Ca.). It does fine in raised beds, I had to move some from the ground into raised beds and did it in the fall, just after the foliage turned brown and died back, came up fine in the spring. Beds are 5x10 have no bottom and are 12 inches deep. Never had to till it, it spreads pretty well on it own.
Oldguyrealy
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Thanks thinking more on just leaving it. Might start a few somewhere else.
Got to plant Gooseberries.
Got to plant Gooseberries.
Herb & Suds
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Good idea
It takes a few seasons to get good yields
Mine tend to spread on their own as long as I leave the surrounding area sparse on ground cover
DoubleAtotheRON
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Yep!.. I never harvested for the first 2 years. Then around Feb, I'd do a shallow till on the row. I made it 6 ft wide because that's how wide my tiller is. Chopping them up a little seemed to make them multiply.
Hooda Thunkit
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Yasssss (as the kids used to say, 5 minutes ago) to the gooseberries! THE absolute best pie in the history of pies!
DoubleAtotheRON
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It is pretty nice… I’ve lived on this 12 acres for 22 years, and there’s square footage I’ve never stepped on. I think that comes out to a little over 522,000 sq ft. About half of it is heavily wooded though.
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hotrodharley
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Grows wild in west Texas, New Mexico, Colorado on irrigation ditch banks.
Oldguyrealy
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Grows wild here to. We have 3 1/2 acres by a State Park. Had a woman making me Gooseberry Pie now have a woman making me Sweet Potato Pie.
Oldguyrealy
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We had 20 acres sold it to a guy saying I was messing up his Deer Hunting building a House where I was.
Kick myself all the time.
DoubleAtotheRON
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Yeah... I can understand that. When I went through my divorce in 2009, I was gone for 19 months going through it. I got back here, and was sitting with my dad by the pool, and I told him "Maybe I'll just sell the land and house,... I don't think I can wash the bitch off of this place"... He said "They're not making any more land, you better hang on to it"... glad I did.
thumper60
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Same here in maine in old over grown homesteads late 1800s