Looking to add a tasty, low-maintenance crop to your vegetable garden that’ll reward you for years to come? Growing asparagus might just be your next favorite gardening adventure. Yes, it takes a ...

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 ...

Asparagus is a long-lived perennial vegetable. If you planted healthy, disease-free crowns (root systems of 1-year-old plants grown from seed), each crown should produce half a pound of spears per ...

Garden quiz: What stands straight like soldiers in spring then turns into a fairytale feathery forest in late summer? Asparagus of course! Asparagus is one of the first plants to greet us come ...

Perennial vegetables are an elite group and are prized for their ability to produce a harvest year after year. Asparagus is one of these valued veggies, and, best of all, it's very easy to grow. Like ...

You can’t just pop asparagus crowns, or seedlings, in the ground. Because it is a perennial vegetable, it requires a little planning and a few hours of work. A few weeks ago I naively bought a few six ...

Q: Should asparagus be planted in the fall or the spring? How should it be planted? J.G., Tulsa A: Asparagus is a valuable vegetable for your garden; it is tasty, healthy and easy to grow. It may be ...

Get your perennial vegetables in the ground and they'll come back year after year, saving your money at the supermarket. When you think about the expensive vegetables at the store, you know, the ...

Watch how an asparagus growing from a bare-root to crowns and young plant in this time lapse. The root was planting in a pot ...

See how fast an asparagus plant was growing from a seed in this time-lapse. The asparagus seed was sown under soil in a ...