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So excited!!! Marketplace score!


I was browsing Marketplace one day and saw these. When I tell you I almost broke my thumbs snapping them up, it's not a word of a lie.

Three pots of three year old plants. $20 each. Hubby loves asparagus but I can't stand it…

On a different note, the roots are growing out the bottom. do I wait until it's died back and repot into larger pots?

by WTF-is-this-life

19 Comments

  2. lamentable_recipe

    And they are AWFUL to try and get rid of. Wrap in black plastic to destroy that and get if off the bare soil ASAP

  3. Comfortable-Pea2482

    Kill it with fire. If you plant it in the ground it will stay for years. I’ve used some evil chemicals on it and it still sprung back.

  4. radiatorlathe

    That’s asparagus fern, extremely invasive in Australia. Also the trade, sale, collection, and movement is illegal. Spreads like wildfire if it’s seeds disperse (which mine is doing right now, thanks to my homes previous owner) and takes decades to kill according to Weeds Australia.

  5. Hot-Refrigerator-623

    Old Greek people used to pick this or something like it for making ouzo.

  6. Vince1080

    I can’t believe Redditors are falling for this. On second thought, I can.

  8. poppacapnurass

    I’m pretty sure it’s illegal commercial growers to sell this plant across the whole of Australia.

    This is Asparagus Fern, a nasty weedy plant that spreads easily and has wirey, thorny stems that can not only take over your whole garden, but trap pets, birds and even small children.

  9. BobbiePinns

    Throw it all in the bin right now. The regular bin not the green waste. Not joking or shitposting (yet). 

    Plant some lovely agave americana or spanish dagger yucca instead. (I do have a reputation to uphold, after all)

  10. TizzyBumblefluff

    DO NOT EAT THAT. It’s asparagus fern. A thorny, poisonous noxious weed.

  11. yit_the_clit

    Not only is Asparagus africanus (asparagus fern) horribly invasive it’s also on the weeds of national significance list and is illegal to sell, distribute and propagate.

    You have a biosecurity obligation to destroy this plant.

    Asparagus fern is responsible for the degradation of endangered ecosystems such as dry rainforest and vine thicket scrub.

  12. Few_Maize_6121

    Friendly reminder that April Fools Day is the 1st of April. This post is far too triggering!

  14. flywire0

    Looks like the asparagus growing in my garden except mine gets full sun and is darker. I’ve harvested it for years but let it go for the last year due to drought and it has come back very spindly like this. I cut it back at end of winter and it produces prolific spears.

  16. WTF-is-this-life

    So nice for my first post on this forum to be laughed at… 😑
    Is it to much to ask for people to be kind as I obviously didn’t know and was so happy…

    She said she grew it from seed so I took her word. I won’t put it in the ground and just wait and see…

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