Cutting Back Asparagus

Enjoy the delicious taste of asparagus with any meal

One of the most elusive vegetables in the produce aisle, white asparagus is beloved by cooks and chefs around the world due to its mellow, enjoyable flavor. Some people call it the vampire of the produce aisle!

Their heft stands up well to stronger seasonings, higher heat, and longer cooking, and they pack more flavor per inch. Sweet, delicate, and grassy-green, with full-flavored earthiness, asparagus is a true taste of spring.

Loaded with all the same full-flavored earthiness as regular asparagus, this thinner variety packs a satisfyingly sweet crunch with every bite. The tender, grassy-green stalks offer instant elegance to any meal and can even be eaten raw as a snack.

A very popular, great tasting asparagus plant. This rich green foliage remains attractive long after harvest. This asparagus plant is a perennial vegetable just once and enjoy the succulent spears for years.

This rich green foliage remains attractive long after harvest. Can produce up to twice the yield of standard varieties. Mary Washington (10 Roots): This asparagus plant is a perennial vegetable just once and enjoy the succulent spears for years.

Predominately male variety produces high yields of very big speared asparagus. Jersey Giant is one of the earliest asparagus to emerge in the spring. Very disease tolerant. Rust-resistant.

High yielding produce of giant asparagus spears! Jersey Giant produces an abundance of flavorful and succulent asparagus spears. Can produce up to twice the yield of standard varieties.

A very productive and great tasting plant. Vigorous grower and high disease resistance. Grows tall stalks that can yield up to 3-4 times more asparagus than other varieties.

A fun and colorful asparagus to grow. A very nutritious and tasty vegetable to have in your garden. This asparagus plant is a perennial vegetable just once and enjoy the succulent spears for years.

Top producer is noted for maintaining its high yield year after year and its ability to withstand cold winter temperatures. One of the highest yielding male hybrid asparagus available to the home gardener.

Includes 10 Jersey Knight and 10 Jersey Giant Asparagus plants.

This left the bigger more succulent male plants. Master gardeners have been known to pull the female plants from their asparagus patch (those producing red berries). Limited supply.

You'll want to order enough for large beds of delicious asparagus. Mary Washington Asparagus is perhaps the easiest grown of all summer vegetables. Mary Washington is fast growing, extremely hardy and rust proof.

Even tastes great raw! We've noticed that it turn green when cooked, but the taste doesn't change. New strain of asparagus with uniquely-colored burgundy spears that are larger, sweeter and tastier than most asparagus varieties.

Mary Washington is the most popular asparagus with home gardeners and farmers. 21 days, 68-86°F. Spears are straight and green with tight tips. Will provide enough transplants for 1 acre).

It takes a couple of years of ferning out in asparagus before you can harvest it. Remove the mulch in the spring and wait patiently for the delicious, tender shoots to emerge. These berries/seeds, however, are unlikely to produce new plants.Ferning, also...

In turn, asparagus gives off a chemical that deters, along with the tomatoes, in close proximity to asparagus is also said to repel asparagus beetle. In this particular companion planting quartet, everyone is a winner.can be planted between the asparagus...

The plants are rust-resistant and perform well in medium to heavy soils. Please order before March 15th for best availability. Store at 36°F and 100% relative humidity. Fertilize beds early in the spring and after harvest with 1-2 cups of TSC's Complete...

Complete instructions are included with your order. Keep beds moist. Not recommended. Drape roots over the hill; cover roots with soil. Harvest spears when they're 6-10 inches tall, cutting them off about 1 inch below soil surface.

Jersey Night was bred on the East Coast but has proven itself all over the country. Jersey Night is disease resistant and doesn't have problems with rust, crown rot and fusarium like other asparagus can.