California Garden TV: How to Grow Asparagus – Step By Step – Complete Grow Guide
In this complete grow guide, Brian will show you how to grow asparagus – step by step. You can plant asparagus once and it will feed you for 30 years. You can plant asparagus crowns or seeds.
🤭🤣🤣🤣🤣 my ground isn’t even thawed out yet in April. 🤗💚🙃I love asparagus by the way, planted a patch YEARS ago. I just have taken very good care of it 🥺💚🙃 Upper Michigan is supposed to be getting 8 inches of snow tonight 🤗 thankfully I don’t live in the UP. 🤗💚🙃
I grew mine from seed…it wasn't hard at all. The seedlings come up as little needles. The next year they are pencil-sized, and the third year you've got big fat beautiful asparagus. I take the long view. Plus, the seeds were a souvenir from a trip to Portugal and that makes me smile whenever I think of it. 💚
😍😍😍😍 Great info thanks! I LOVE asparagus & knew that was a little bit trickier and took longer to start yielding and that's probably why they're so expensive in the grocery stores. Thank you for breaking it down for us , you always make this stuff looks so easy and inspire me to be a Greener thumb😄 You are in tune w nature & good at explaining things right to the point with plenty of detail but not going on and on in a boring way😊👍🏽
This was my first year harvesting and I gorged on them. I have a few female plants. I take the berries and spread them under my fruit trees in the fall and now I have lots of little seedlings coming up.
So I do have cold winter weather here in NC 7b. When I cut my asparagus down and cover with soil, should I also apply a fresh layer of mulch? I was also surprised to learn this year that thick asparagus stalks are more tender than thin and the diameter of a stalk doesn't change as it grows (what comes out of the ground is what you get). I'm still at least a year away from harvesting but can't wait – it will be so worth it.
I'm on your timeline for harvesting my 1st this Spring. I just got the electric hedge trimmer for other things. Lightbulb minute with the asparagus trim. 👍✔️
Any recommendations on how to get rid of asparagus beetles? They seem to show up almost as soon as the plants start growing. I try to pick them off as soon as I see them but they often drop off the plants and bury themselves in the soil.
Do we cut back first year fronds from crowns? Or do we leave those fronds through the entire winter and following season to cut back the second fall to prepare for harvest the next spring?
I didn’t harvest my first year, but I did cut back when the fronds turned brown. Did I set my schedule back by doing so?
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Where can one buy the crowns in Canada?
Is it just me or is the sound slightly out of sync on this video…?
Great video otherwise!
🤭🤣🤣🤣🤣 my ground isn’t even thawed out yet in April. 🤗💚🙃I love asparagus by the way, planted a patch YEARS ago. I just have taken very good care of it 🥺💚🙃 Upper Michigan is supposed to be getting 8 inches of snow tonight 🤗 thankfully I don’t live in the UP. 🤗💚🙃
Thank you Brian ! 💚🙃
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I grew mine from seed…it wasn't hard at all. The seedlings come up as little needles. The next year they are pencil-sized, and the third year you've got big fat beautiful asparagus. I take the long view. Plus, the seeds were a souvenir from a trip to Portugal and that makes me smile whenever I think of it. 💚
This 2025 season was my first being able to harvest and eat my asparagus.. so good!! I am so glad I planted it 3 years ago
😍😍😍😍
Great info thanks! I LOVE asparagus & knew that was a little bit trickier and took longer to start yielding and that's probably why they're so expensive in the grocery stores. Thank you for breaking it down for us , you always make this stuff looks so easy and inspire me to be a Greener thumb😄
You are in tune w nature & good at explaining things right to the point with plenty of detail but not going on and on in a boring way😊👍🏽
valuable info.. thanks 👍🏻🌱
This was my first year harvesting and I gorged on them. I have a few female plants. I take the berries and spread them under my fruit trees in the fall and now I have lots of little seedlings coming up.
So I do have cold winter weather here in NC 7b. When I cut my asparagus down and cover with soil, should I also apply a fresh layer of mulch? I was also surprised to learn this year that thick asparagus stalks are more tender than thin and the diameter of a stalk doesn't change as it grows (what comes out of the ground is what you get). I'm still at least a year away from harvesting but can't wait – it will be so worth it.
Where do you get crowns this time of year? I only see them late winter/early spring.
I'm on your timeline for harvesting my 1st this Spring. I just got the electric hedge trimmer for other things. Lightbulb minute with the asparagus trim. 👍✔️
Any recommendations on how to get rid of asparagus beetles? They seem to show up almost as soon as the plants start growing. I try to pick them off as soon as I see them but they often drop off the plants and bury themselves in the soil.
I need a little clarification, please.
Do we cut back first year fronds from crowns? Or do we leave those fronds through the entire winter and following season to cut back the second fall to prepare for harvest the next spring?
I didn’t harvest my first year, but I did cut back when the fronds turned brown. Did I set my schedule back by doing so?