In this video, I show you how to prune asparagus and overwinter them for a big asparagus harvest next year! Growing asparagus a great decision, because a perennial asparagus patch will feed you for over 20 years! But, how you care for and overwinter asparagus plants is critical for their performance. Each fall, prune asparagus like this for massive harvests next year in spring!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Benefits Of Home Grown Asparagus
1:39 2 Critical Asparagus Growing Tips
4:30 Pruning Asparagus Demonstration
5:18 How To Overwinter Asparagus Patches
8:06 Mulching Asparagus Tips
10:44 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Benefits Of Home Grown Asparagus
1:39 2 Critical Asparagus Growing Tips
4:30 Pruning Asparagus Demonstration
5:18 How To Overwinter Asparagus Patches
8:06 Mulching Asparagus Tips
10:44 Adventures With Dale
Asparagus and strawberry combination is nice, I've been growing like this for 3 years.
You get strawberries early in season before asparagus takes all the space, they can deal with some mulch just fine.
Help. After watching this, i have a q. This is my second year of puttin my asparagus to bed for winter. I did not know what the red berries were about, soooo, yeah, I left them in with ferns, cut up the green and left it along with plenty of other compost, covered with plastic and secured it for winter…zone 6. Will the red berries give me trouble? What to do if anything. Thank you😊
Great video and answered lots of questions I had about my asparagus bed for winter! Can you do a video preparing a strawberry bed for the winter as well? Should you top it all with compost too? Thanks!
Perfect timing. I'm going on year 4, but we have not had a frost or freeze in my zone 7a/b in OKC (lowest temp for me is 37). I've been pruining the ones that are obviously done this year but over half of them are still green. SHould I go ahead a prune them back now. Colder tamps forecasted for next week?? Thanks for sharing..
Thank you for all the wonderful information you share with us. May I ask what type of wood you used to make your raised beds. Thank you.
@5:26 I like to think that the asparagus willed it's cuttings to be dropped behind the bed in the background. Even untethered from the earth it finds its way behind the camera.
Can you save those round seeds , to plant elsewhere? And if so, whats the best way to do that?
Perfect timing! Thanks!
Thanks for this video , I’m looking forward to the home grown fragrance .
Asparagus beetles can overwinter in the old ferns.
We are also zone 8b, just south from you. We need to move our asparagus. This coming spring: 4th year) We know how, but wondering if it will set back the ( able to harvest time). Also when you cover things like onions/ garlic with straw , it blocks out sun . Is that ok, leave on until next spring?
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It's been a bit, 65 years, but my grandfather cut and burnt the dried plants in the rows they grew in. I figure he was eliminating some of the pests that may have attempted to overwinter in the debris while adding whatever benefit the ashes may have had. I've seen other growers burn their plants in the rows as well. Both put dried cow manure on the beds before winter came on.
I'll refer back to this video when I get a couple beds planted.
I have a question please. Even though iv lived around gardening all my life, I didn’t pay enough attention to my dad to gain the knowledge he had. Therefore I am now relying on YouTubers like you to know how , when and what to do. Around August and planted an asparagus bed all from seed. (Don’t ask why so late😢), they are doing fantastic. Since they are young and tender, should I create a cover for the bed to protect from the hard winter temperatures? I’m zone 7, but live in a little higher elevation and we should experience deep cold Jan/Feb. knowing I can’t harvest for a couple years, I want to protect them from loss. I did add chopped leaves as cover and more are falling. Should I add straw? Should I add a tunnel cover? Thanks for your guidance. I enjoy your channel and have made a couple purchases off your Amazon page. I want to support those that help me learn.
Thank you Anthony. I should have done it last year too. I'm in the third year of asparagus.
Thanks!
When it is finally time to harvest asparagus, should I let the first couple of sprouts from each crown fully grow out to photosynthesize and provide nutrients the crowns? When pruning the spears at the end of the season, should they be cut at an angle (completely above ground) so water doesn't pool on them and cause them to rot?
I would really like to move my asparagus to another location in my garden. Is late fall the right time to move it? Do you have any tips for moving it?
Thank you for another useful, informative video.
Decent video. But why be careful to cut 1" above grade if your tthen covering with 2" compost and 3"-4" mulch? Doesn't that make cutting them above the soil voided. ? Indiana 6b.
can pine shavings used in a chicken coop be used as the mulch?
Do you still have to wait three years even if it says that they’re two-year-old grounds?
Does the 3 years also apply to asparagus volunteers?
I grew mine the hard way, from seed. I did not know you need to prune back the old ferns. Guess who was saturated with asparagus beetles? I think I will burn mine this year. The beetles will eat more than asparagus. Lost my cucumbers too.
The BEST asparagus is the Guelph varieties for their superior hardiness and production! The newest of the series 'Equinox' holds the spears tight for a longer period of time, even up to 18 to 24 inch length before breaking into branching, It is rated all the wayyyy down to zone 2, so pretty well can be grown almost anywhere in North America! …
I have 2 asparagus beds. The first one is over 40 years old. I thought I had killed it (thankfully I didn't), so I planted a new apsaragus bed. Some were crowns that I bought, some from seed. My new bed is two to three years old (crowns 3+ and seeds at least 2 years) , and all of the ferns are full of seeds. I will prune them soon, and add compost and mulch… I might plant the seeds someplace and make another bed.
Thank you! Needed this video!
Asparagus Beetle larvae winter over in discarded debris and stems. Best to move stems away from plants after trimming in fall.
I planted asparagus for the first time from seed this year. Pests killed the ones planted in the ground so I transplanted the ones in pots into the garden a month ago.
Thanks for the clear explanation. I’ve already cut back my asparagus ferns! I just have to spread some compost and straw now! 👍🏼
This is an awesome video amd just in time. Mext season will be yr 3, but I have to say I am afraid to harvest…lol…I want them to be as strong as possible. Thanks for all the tips.
Do you bury the female stems w seeds?