2 Year Old Asparagus Crowns For Sale

An alternative to purchasing commercial asparagus crowns is to grow your own crowns from seed.

2 year old asparagus crowns for sale.

Choose its spot in the garden carefully. A little less hardy than sprengeri. Then you can add delicious asparagus dishes to your family s. Then again i have over 3 000 plants and sell commercially so cost is more of a factor for me.

Plant healthy certified 1 year old crowns. Two year old crowns appear to suffer greater transplant shock. Good soil moisture is important at planting for good root and fern growth. Crowns are the one year old roots of asparagus typically sold in nurseries and garden centers.

But five years later i transplanted some ten year old crowns from a neighbor s garden and when spring. The fat stemmed types with which we are more. May be sold as asparagus meyeri or asparagus myersii. I get excellent 2 year crowns of jersey knight from debruyn seed out of mich at 100 26 95.

How is asparagus started. An asparagus plant can last 15 years. Never use 2 or 3 year old crowns. Frankly i really don t think the gain of a 3rd year crown would be significant.

Although asparagus can be grown from seed it is difficult time consuming and. Forms a 3 to 4 feet wide clump. Research has shown that using one year old crowns is more economical and higher yielding than using two and three year old crowns. Starting asparagus plantings with one year old crowns is still the easiest and most popular method used by eastern and midwestern u s.

Judging from illustrations in old herbals the asparagus of the past was rather gawkish tall and narrow very similar in appearance to wild asparagus. Several to many stiffly upright stems to 2 feet or more densely clothed with needlelike deep green leaves that give the plant a fluffy look. Planting at the right depth is important. My original asparagus patch for example was started with two year old commercial plants.