{"id":106644,"date":"2019-04-27T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-grow-asparagus-alys-fowler\/"},"modified":"2019-04-27T17:03:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T10:03:56","slug":"how-to-grow-asparagus-alys-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-grow-asparagus-alys-fowler\/","title":{"rendered":"How to grow asparagus | Alys Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOnce you establish an asparagus bed, you\u2019ll be gorging yourself silly on the stuff for 20 years or more, says our gardening expertWhen I first left home, my mother would send bundles of asparagus and six carefully wrapped, freshly laid eggs in the post throughout the brief season. (Only rarely did they break. She is the queen of mail.) She had rescued two overgrown and much neglected asparagus beds when we moved and poured in so much love in the form of muck, weeding and asparagus-beetle-squishing that we all gorged ourselves silly on the stuff. For years, I willed a package to appear every April, but those beds belong to someone else now and I have my own.There are many lessons from this, but the first is it is entirely possible to revitalise a tired patch with a mulch of good compost and some weeding. Asparagus truly likes only its own company and wants its roots in cool, deep, well-drained soil. This is best done by adding as much organic matter as you can every year in the form of mulch. Repeat this in autumn and again after harvesting in early summer. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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