It’s been three years since we planted our asparagus patch, which is about the amount of time it takes for a patch to establish… and establish it did.
We’ve never seen a stalk this tall, easily over 24″ in length. Usually they get woody at the bottom at this point, but after cooking it up it ended up delicious!
A pro tip on harvesting asparagus: if you snap it off by bending it, it usually snaps off right at the part where it’s starting to get woody, leaving the less edible parts behind.
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That’s what mine look like and they are mighty tasty
That asparagus got some black in it
For anyone wondering, this is not some freak of nature. Asparagus can grow to be like 6ft tall and 2ft in diameter
“it’s so big!” That’s what she said
why did u cut it i wanted u to cook it big
I don't understand why everybody is so enamored of asparagus, It's a ditch weed. I remember my
Mother always sending me out to pick asparagus from the ditch. I think asparagus taste disgusting
No, you harvest the first anomaly to propagate its offspring. Of which turns into an unstoppable nightmare weed that takes over the world. THEN you can try it.
spargle
That asparagu is giving Drake 😅😂
I've actually seen this happen before, I've asked people who are way, WAY smarter about plants than I am (I'm a professional cannabis grower so my "expertise" ends at indicas, sativas, and funky hybrids thereof) and no one can tell me why my asparagus beds do what they do. About half of them look like the one in the video, and the other half are all really short but very very fat! The short ones are fine to eat and kind of reminds me of a cross between green beans and broccoli, but you have to pick them at the exact right moment. Even one day too long in the soil, and it's like trying to eat cooked #2 pencils.
I love Asparagus, this is an absolute win
Defo would’ve let that one seed, myself.
Peel your asparagus ughh
It blew my mind when no one ate the asparagus head first. My mom grew it in her garden for years and we wouldn't eat a stalk without the head until we were adults
I'n interested in the "card catalog" drawers in the background. Where are they available at?
… That's how they grow where in from. Are they suppose to stay small?
The way asparagus grow is astounding. Unreal. Cartoonish.
You do not harwest asparagus the first couple of years, you just let them grow and let them evolve underground.
Mine are almost as big too, we had a mild winter, wonder if that’s why? Tastes great too, first thing I was able to eat out of the garden ❤❤
BGA
Youre not supposed to eat past the buds
Really good. Pick before they branch. mine grow like that. I enjoy the stocks.😊
That things all woody.
I love how full of shit this guy is. 😂
How do you even get in to the kitchen to cook it. I'd eat it raw. When you garden in a community garden by the time you get there all your asparagus gets that tall. Peel the bottom to get past the fibery skin.
speaking from experience, how you do cooked veggies is a world of difference between 'ugh gross' and 'this is so good, I want more'
Should've saved seeds from that man
I would have let that stalk go to seed ❤
You should have let it keep growing so that you can collect its seeds and keep getting giant esparagus.
It’s just wild asparagus it grows in my backyard every year
Looks like a regular asparagus to me
It’s not really big….this shit is fucking huge
I wanted to see the whole thing cooked in one piece 😭
W O O D Y
That's a damn tree at this point
Did you save any seeds or no
Looks like perfectly normal Asparagus. Not sure why it warrants extra attention…?
What do you put in your soil bro?
I like how you lovingly stroked that asparagus sir. 😂 It is big! I’d totally eat that. 😋
I just had one of those this year! It was 2’ before I saw it. I assumed it would be woody so I didn’t harvest it. Regrets. Yours looked good!
Youd freak out over my purple passion asparagus lol it can be up to 1 1/2 around and a foot tall lol but tendervand buttery/nutty flavored.
My hubby makes sone pretty bad jokes over it lol. You know wanna know what the grandsons say lol. Ill have to take photos for ya 😅
I'm on year 3 of my asparagus, should I trim it or still let it flower?
That’s normal for asparagus to grow that tall😂😂😂
Aren't you Larry Kubin? A superb programmer?
I love asparagus I just can't eat the stems because they are too stringy and I always end up choking on the string sitting halfway down my through
I can smell the skunk pee from here.
Hey! Im a le-win panther
People who dont like vegetables always sound like "yeah i love my juul but these days i am more into oxygen"
Drake
I love asparagus but anything with butter on it I'm sure we'll taste good
SUCH a size queen