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I ran away from teaching to the country to grow veggies. There are also some chooks and a pair of troublesome goats who were so much trouble they had to go! My simple green life isn't always as simple or as green as I'd like...but I keep trying!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Skinny bastards!

Way back in Autumn...
the totally wrong time to be doing it...
I planted out some asparagus crowns.

You may remember the post...Six fat bastards in one bed.
Now I wasn't being rude...
the variety of asparagus was Fat Bastard.
I also planted a purple variety.

Well...I know I will have to wait a couple of years before I can harvest any spears.  But I thought with a name with 'fat' in it would result in a little more than what has appeared in my asparagus patch this week.
  

How is that for pathetic?
Fat?
I am about to load on some chookie poo and straw mulch.
I hope he doesn't have an eating disorder!

Maybe I will get a few spears next year!

8 comments:

  1. I think they are doing really well for a first year! you will just have to feed them up and make them fat.
    being wog mama myself I can give you lots of advice on how to do that!!

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  2. Thats just the one that you leave to go all ferny Hazel...I wouldnt mind looking like that asparagus though....

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  3. Patience is the key with Asparagus. It'll come good in the end, don't you worry. Just let those ferns spread out and gather some sun-energy.

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  4. Maybe it's just a sophisticated spear?

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  5. I don't want to gloat but I have wild asparagus growing everywherethrough my orchard and they are FAT bastards!

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  6. I have never heard of fat bastard asparagus. I have Mary Washington and purple, and they do get fatter each year. I don't know if you are anywhere near the sea, but they love a mulch of seaweed...

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  7. they were putting some salt on the asparagus patch on gardening Australia recently, seems strange but I might give it a go.

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