Asparagus

Gardentoad · Post by **Gardentoad** » Apr 05, 2008 8:54 pm

I'm in central Indiana and my asparigus hasn't even started comming up below the soil. I don't know if it's just too early or if I lost them from the drought last year.

I turned over the top 3 or 4 inches of soil with a fork and added blood meal.
Is it too soon for them to start growing at all?

thy · Post by **thy** » Apr 06, 2008 9:26 pm

In my zone i would not seen them in the next weks

Peak time here is start June

If first year leave one partr/shooot to support the growt for next year...

Post by **Chris_W** » Apr 06, 2008 9:54 pm

I think Asparagus are pretty resilient to drought and it also might be too early to worry about them. Nothing is really coming up much here, but then again we still have patchy frost in the ground, which is kind of nice since I don't want to deal with frost ABOVE the ground later!

Gardentoad · Post by **Gardentoad** » Apr 06, 2008 11:34 pm

Thanks.
Does anybody recall what blooms around the time they come up? I have lots of daffodils blooming here now, but no tulips yet.
It is eaiser for me to go by what plants bloom rather than what month.

whis4ey · Post by **whis4ey** » Apr 07, 2008 4:57 am

My asparagus started a month ago
My daffodils started 6 weeks ago

This is the first spear to show .......

thy · Post by **thy** » Apr 09, 2008 7:23 pm

Here..ready to eat is somewhere between the late tulips and the firs syringa to bloom ...

Remember you are not to eat them after one special day.. here it is misummerday