Dear Carol: In the spring of 2007, we planted an asparagus bed from "Martha Washington" seeds. The soil was well-tilled and composted. Everything was going well; the plants were sending up spears and ...

Asparagus is a perennial that can live up to 15 years. It will require some patience and a long-term vision on your part. Prepare the bed in advance. When crowns are planted, they will need irrigation ...

Asparagus is a perennial vegetable that can be enjoyed for many years. Plant asparagus crowns in a sunny location with well-drained soil. Don't harvest asparagus the first year, and limit harvesting ...

While you can certainly grow these vegetables in a raised bed, they have some characteristics that will either limit your ...

Asparagus can be harvested until the spears are about as thin as a pencil, then the thin spears should be left to develop ferny growth that supplies the crowns with energy for the following year. Some ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As such, raised garden beds seem like a Godsend. For one, they fill in the gaps when ground soil is deemed too poor to grow nice ...