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Discover the secrets to growing asparagus in your garden! Learn how to grow asparagus from seed for a bountiful harvest in spring.
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Seeds vs Crowns
It takes at least a year longer to get harvestable spears from seeds compared to starting from crowns. Crowns quickly produce plants in the first year and enough spears to eat by the second year.
Planting asparagus seeds
Start the seeds approximately four months before you want to transplant seedlings in the spring. You can also grow asparagus seedlings in pots for a year before planting them.
Transplanting to your garden
You can plant asparagus seedlings about three to four months after the seeds germinate and all danger of frost is past.
Harvesting
Once a harvestable crop of spears emerges, they can grow up to two inches per day, so check and harvest the bed daily in spring to get the tastiest and most tender shoots.
After harvest
When the harvest ends in 6 to 8 weeks, continue caring for the fern-like plants so they can recharge for next year's crop.
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