"No-till" Asparagus and Strawberry Update (end of second season)
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Last spring we planted some asparagus and strawberries in a new Ruth Stout bed. And since then, we’ve posted a few mini updates, tacked on to the end of other videos. But, since a number of you have asked for it, we figured it was about time we posted a quick standalone video as well.
So, this update will be fairly short, because there’s still not a whole lot to say. And what we do have to say, we’ve mostly already mentioned. So think of this as more of a compilation of those previous updates, all pulled together into one concise video.
Our original video (Companion Planting Asparagus and Strawberries):
• Companion Planting Asp...
Charles Dowding's NO-DIG asparagus:
• Asparagus - no dig, pl...
Nothing wrong with a few female asparagus plants I manage to harvest about a few thousand seeds each year from only 3 plants . Great way to keep expanding you garden and give away seedlings as gifts
I grew a bunch from my saved seed this year and have a branch of red seeds hanging on my wall waiting for spring
There is a place for disturbing the soil in nature too. animals like hogs occupy that niche and help disrupt the established and stagnant ground so other plants have a chance to grow
Hogs are destructive and non native so.
@@Rougar00u in the us theyre non native
@@Rougar00u depends where you live mate, plenty of soil tillers in the americas as well, many animals dig or are so big their mere footsteps tear it up
@@junovhs4646 ya In north american it was the bison and other herd animals
even where this does occur naturally - it's nowhere near the scale, frequency, etc., that human growers apply
I get plenty of berries on my asparagus and still get good harvests. I would caution about cutting the plants down at the end of the season however; the berries can harbour pests and worms that you may not want later. The berries are prolific however, and tossing/dropping a few casually to the side has resulted in asparagus growing in just about every bed I have now. HAHA. Good luck!
I also discover a female plant with my male plants and as the bees were loving the flowers, I got a load of fruits. I am trying to dry them now since around 30 plants don't seem enough for me...hehe!
Started a huge Asparagus garden myself earlier this year, planted 51 crowns. 37 sprouted and have one too several ferns between 12"~30" each. Many of my crowns looked kinda dead like your strawberries, so I imagine they were probably dead, but gives the others plenty of room to expand. Have many large raised rows between the asparagus and may as well plant some strawberries there this fall if I can find some or next Spring. Thx for the tips, didn't know they were companion plants.
Cool that stuff is working out so well and with so little input, which is really the way it should be. I wish we could use straw here, but the woodlice love hiding under it and decimate my strawberries if I use it, so I use compost instead, is more work but works fine.
I just stumbled on your site and love your explanations. Thanks for all the time you put into your videos!
Thanks for sharing this
Can’t wait to get ours in next spring!
seven minutes and twenty seconds I can almost hear Jeff Goldblum say "life finds a way"
From the few second clip, those strawberries were dead. When all the roots are that dark they're dead. At least a few should be light to white colored. I would plant the crown slightly higher than you did. If living they would come up in about a week. Your mulch layer was way too thick for the top, but would have been great around them. Hence the name strawberries.
#1 problem is probably poor drainage. IMO if you had a raised bed that provided the full 18-24 inches of well-drained garden-soil then you'd see double the growth you're experiencing here. Drain-tile helps but IMO the tall-filled-raised-garden-bed provides more growth.
I also have a male asparagus puzzle. I started my asparagus plants from seed and the variety Jersey Knight promised to produce all male plants. However in their second year, some of the plants flowered and produced berries. I contacted the seed company, who did not offer an answer, but instead sent me some replacement seeds (of a different variety 🤦♀️). I have been wondering, if grown from seed, that must have been produced by a female plant, how was it going to produce all male seeds? Who knows 🤷🏻♀️ I would love to figure this out one day!
Hi. Can ask any update about asparagus and strawberry companion planting?
Hi, any asparagus/strawberry updates please?
So when are you two going to start the fine art of keeping bees?
Do you have day nutral or June bearing strawberry
Do you cast out cotton seed or soy bean meal on your Ruth Stout beds like she mentions in her "Gardening Without Work" book? I am interested if you have done any experiments between the two.
Great question, and an even better reminder! We have not yet used cotton seed or soybean meal, but have often thought we should try. It would be interesting to see a comparison (with vs without), especially on a heavy feeding crop. So, thanks for the reminder. I'll add that to the list for next season. :)
Oh yeah, don't cover those strawberry crowns.
Yeah, those strawberry were dead for sure...
Your strawberry plants looked dead.
You all act like you know what you're doing , your forgetting this is an experiment ,stop acting like your a master at this
I'm sorry if I gave the impression that we know what we're doing. lol
Quite the contrary, we are the first to admit that we are not experts at this. In fact, I mentioned at the beginning of the original video that this was our first (ever) attempt at growing asparagus. Again, sorry if that was not clear in this update.
I forgot this existed, finally good news for 2020
We got mostly male asparagus crowns. We save berries off the females and plant them out in new places. Many don't germinate... But a few do. This way we are expanding our asparagus crops for free. It is a long wait but worth it.
Our baby asparagus is out competing the grasses.
did you let the berries freeze I picked and put in the freezer and planted in sprig. in was impressed with germination
@@sallykeindel8703 I left them out on our screened and covered porch. They had several freeze/thaw cycles over the winter.
I'll get them planted out soon. But it will have to wait until May, I'm not allowed heavy work right now.
Didn't think covering strawberry crowns w mulch was a good idea but the problem could of also been more dried than average plants. I bought some bare root strawberries that looked pretty dry. Only a few green leaves out of 20. I planted them and none of the more dried out ones have show any life. I tried again with a closeout sale batch that was much worse looking. Out of about 30, 5 had some decent green tip. 10 or so were just a bit less dry than the last part that were very dry and dead looking. I planted the not quite dead and as a test I bundled the totally dried ones and put them in a pitcher of water with the level just below the crown. It turns out the migrade ones had only 1 start to grow but the very dead looking ones are popping up with green all over. They say to soak the plants for an hour or so but I'm telling you if they aren't fairly green at the top soak the roots for days and get some green showing. I may also add some liquid fert . I already gave them a bit of B vitamin.
I did a similar thing...flipping sod... when I planted my fruit trees in a former cultivated hay field. I used the flipped sod as a burm around my newly planted trees to keep the water from running down the hill and bypassing the trees. I figured why buy more soil. The sod had nutrients because that where the worms were hanging out and I didn't want to lose good soil or the worms. Or any rain water that matter. My thought was if I flipped the grass over and exposed the roots, the roots would die thus contributing again to the soil's nutrients and I would keep the native soil. Not sure if that helps at all. So far so good. It holds in the water quite nicely and the roots have died. Now I just wait and see.
I planted my asparagus even "more wrong" then you did: I just plonked the crowns into a hole (without making a nice hil in the hole to spread the roots over - I did not even spread the roots out. Filled the hole back in, coverd the bed with woodchips and shopped straw and planted some strawberries. The asparagus came up nicely and the strawberries attempted to conquer my whole garden 😂 Can't wait for their second years growth.
Just want to mention we started a Ruth Stout garden a few weeks ago inspired by your RUclips channel. We have no idea what we're doing. But a few garlic sprouts are coming out of the hay. And there's other stuff coming out too because we planted seeds of random stuff like carrots, turnips, cucumbers, and whatever else was sitting in my Mom's garage for a few years. Thank you again for the inspiration!
Hey guys, love your channel.
Thought I'd drop a quick little comment for you on no work asparagus.
We are in the Okanagan in Western Canada and have tons of wild Asparagus.
One year, I harvested the berries... thousands of them probably, and threw them where I wanted them to grow.
Not in a bed... in a waist high grass (weeds one might say) area...
Year 1, I had 200 spears come up... though, you have to really know what they look like, and no one could really understand my obsession or thrill with them.
Only work... I chop down some of the grass to favour the asparagus to outcompete.
After experimenting successfully with mulching a few of the wild patches, I now cover the asparagus beds in the fall with grass..
Oh, and they now get water because they are downhill from a veggie garden.
So... we are going into year 4 (2021) I believe my first harvest will be this season... and last year I counted a total of just over 500 spears.
I've also just started throwing asparagus seeds into my strawberry beds and other random places...
They all germinate well, and grow much quicker with water.
Oh man, this is awesome! You've just given me a new summer pastime! :)
Thanks for sharing. I love this!
Working in a seed company on Asparagus I know that under stress conditions male plants can produce some berries although this is still way less than a normal female plant would produce. The male chromosome has a female suppressor gene that can get bypassed sometimes. To prevent that, seed companies are trying to develop "super male" hybrids which have two male chromosomes but even then it's not a 100% guaranty.
I love how absurdly strange plant biology is
@@swedneck do you mean the biology of the plant, or the stuff that seed companies do to them, so that ordinary people stay dependent on seed companies because the can't propagate plants for themselves?
@@MartinaSchoppeTim's comment seems fairly self explanatory... And he is right. Plant biology has surprises everywhere you look.
I saw Charles video before I planted by asparagus and it contradicted everything else I read. Mostly because he did not talk about trench or depth or anything. However down in the comments he mentions you could dig a trench and I read somewhere, that the spears are more stable a couple of centimeters under ground. So I ended up in the middle: Dug a trench, make tiny hills, put in crowns, flip the sod on the roots (making sure to put loose soil at the center), cover with grass clippings every seond week all season.
Result: From the 25 plants I ordered and the 27 I received all 27 came up AND all of them produced at least 3 spears, in their first year. Some as many as 6 up to 1,2m tall.
As soon as the foliage dies off, I will give it a few centimeters of compost and cover it with leaves and cardboard over the winter like my other beds. By spring the cardboard is so soggy and weak, the asparagus just pushes through.
Side note: I love using cardboard in the garden, especially since I know EU regulations mandates that the glue is starch based on the printing is soy and soot.
if any of the strawberry plants survived when you planted them, the mulch would definitely have killed them
Your asparagus is doing really well. I had to wait 5 years before I was able to consistently harvest a good handful of thick spears from each plant per season. I harvested once and then let the later thinner ones shoot, to feed the crowns. They love LOTS of well-matured compost, so apply liberally if possible. As far as my strawberry plants, meh, not so... hey, is that a ladybird. 😁
When I was about 25, a friend offered me some perennial flower plants. I chose one that she said was a weed. I told her "I didn't have a weed like that." Then I pointed to another plant & said "now, that's a weed." She informed me that was asparagus ... all grown up. I realized the "weed" along our property line was the same. That was 50 yrs ago. I now have an established bed that started as 25 plants. "Babies" have come up from seed that fell.
And this yr, I planted cherry tomatoes among my strawberry plants. The strawberries weren't doing well because of little green worms that attacked them 2 yrs in a row. They look much better this fall. It seems to have worked. The worms weren't back.
Thanks for the post. I don't hear from folks of my generation very often.
I've always suspected the overly complicated traditional advise on how to plant asparagus crowns was not a must-do. I planted my crowns in deep large tubs, just like any other plant would be set in soil (but at least 3 inches of soil on top of the crown), with good results. I did this because I wanted to start my asparagus bed but I knew I might want to move the plants a few years later. Taking them out of the tubs is a lot easier on my back and the crowns than digging them up out of the ground.
And YES, I have gotten Jersey asparagus female plants. If you look at the fine print of seed packets and website pages that sell seeds and crowns, it usually says they send up "mostly" or "predominately" male plants.
Good to see this update. Thanks.
We've grown asparagus for decades - didn't know there were male and female plants and we've never seen berries.
I Have had much better results when just buying live strawberry plants as the crowns in my experience tend to be a bit finicky to use
I've had great luck with planting strawberry sprouts, they almost grow as fast as the roots surprisingling!
True, plants are better
Same
I potted up 140 runners last year, kept a bunch and increased my bed and gave the rest away. I was also given a very sad looking white strawberry plant that had survived in a 4” pot for two years. I dumped it old horse droppings and as if by a way of a Thankyou she’s produced 40 babies ! Asparagus have gone in Charles Dowding style and look healthy.
The garden, because of no dig and you guys giving us inspiration is still expanding rapidly. This has extended further to my daughter taking on an allotment which is fantastic so if ever you guys feel despondent with a failure remember there’s success happening over the pond because of you 😊
I love💗💗💗💗 your style like really PBS quality producer! Your talk so smooth I keep waiting for you to start reporting the NEWS 😜
Here in northeast ohio, asparagus grows wild along the edge of farm fields next to the ditches along the country roads. We had two volunteer plants come up in our front beds and we have just picked enough spears for a few meals every spring. They are spreading and getting thicker every year. I am sure anyone can dig up some wild plants and put them wherever they want them and they will grow. I think they are hard to kill.
One thing about strawberry 'roots' /starts, is that it is important to plant 'not too deep', and what I mean about that, is that the crown of the plant is not covered, but the rest of the plant ( roots) are. And then, they will benefit immensely be getting some water at least a couple of times when they are just beginning to grow. And, my thots on your berries that didn't grow, was the mulch. I'm not sure about after they are up, and thriving, but I never have covered any plants when planting them ! ( While we will never know for certain about the condition of your new plants ( roots), I would guess that they were alive, and well, even tho they showed no signs of life ) ! And lastly, you tried, even tho your strawberries didn't make it ! As I have to learn in life, everyone makes mistakes ! And, hopefully, we all can learn from those mistakes !
I’m trying back to Eden style asparagus and strawberries as part of my apple tree guild. I was inspired by your video to do this but didn’t have space to do the full ruth stout method so just found space under my existing apple tree bed which was already mulched with wood chips. Fingers crossed it works 🤞
It's pretty common in 'male only' Asparagus stock that you get the occasional female plant mixed in there accidentally.
After several years, the asparagus in mid summer to fall looks like a low growing fir tree, and shades out a lot of the ground in spots. You want them to lay their cane down so the air and light gets through. Let the asparagus take over and keep starting new areas for the strawberries. Soon you'll have a lot so they mix with all the other plants. We started both asparagus and strawberries from seed, so we have asparagus plants going to seed for the last few years.
flipping sod is very much like what pigs do. very natural.
I think flipping the sod was the best option in your situation. 👍🏻🤠💪
I got crowns and planted them 3 years ago. I was very excited to harvest them last year. I also enjoy letting some of them go and those produce ferns and red berries... which I figured may seed. I didn’t know that the berries were anything other than red. Interesting video. I’m putting in an asparagus and strawberry bed in another area. 20 x 30. Cardboard smothering like Charles Dowding, adding stumps and small logs and then soil. We will see. Fresh Air and Iodine Farms
I started a big new asparagus patch this year and inspired by you, gave them strawberry companions. I didn't fence the patch b/c I knew deer don't care for asparagus. Boy do they ever like strawberry though.
I wonder if any of the wild Asparagus cross pollinated with your domesticated asparagus causing the fruit.
No.
I have an asparagus/strawberry bed in its 4th year. I bought male/male hybrid crowns and I get some red berries on my plants. But out of the 32 crowns I planted and all of the shoots in the bed only maybe 4 or 5 shoots got berries. So a very low percentage get berries.
You're right, plants and nature do it by them selves, and it is some much fun growing vegetables. I really enjoy your content that you share.
Thank you Lockdown2020. It took 47 years to start. (Should have started earlier.)
Waiting with a baited breath for your next video.
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
I have recently moved and are starting over with, among other things, my asparagus patch. I had planted my patch where I lived before just like you without all the amendments. I had excellent results as well. Oh by the way, my asparagus are my children. 👍🏻
My 30 all male asparagus ended up with 4 females also, after the third year saved seeds frim them and started 30 new plants that ended up being 2/3 male....
Asparagus needs some time. In another year or so it will grow like crazy. You're gonna love it.
Great news on the Asparagus and the Strawberries.
I planted Berry plants 2x this year from store bought bare root since they are more economical and all of them did not grow.
I'll be ordering fewer live plants over the winter to arrive in spring.
I would love to try growing berries from seed, that would be the most economical.
As to the Asparagus, we have been growing them for decades and one plant will send up a few stalks with berries but all the rest do not.
This year I planted all the 2 year old seeds I collected from the berries and not have allot of new plants.
I'll leave them in place for next growing season and then dig up and transplant into a new row.
A person cannot have too many Strawberries or Asparagus.
After watching your initial video, I also companion planted asparagus and strawberry this spring (2020) without any amendments and with mulching with straw. They both did well. As I type (Nov 2020) the asparagus is big and bushy. I know I cannot begin harvesting until spring of 2022 but I’m so excited this first year went well for them. The strawberries also did fabulously and made many babies. Thanks so much for the inspiration! Keep up with the excellent videos.
I have planted asparagus at every home I have ever owned. I have read that asparagus can change genders, it's not completely rare and occurs when only one gender is planted. My last asparagus bed was Jersey males because they are supposed to have the biggest spears.For some reason I had females too but by the third season my female plants seemed to die out and the males I had became super producers.My next bed is just being started from seed and is Connovers Colossal. I am sure there will be both males and females but I'm okay with that. Even the females are supposed to have big stalks for female plants. I could not obtain the plants anywhere. It would take a trip to Canada and smuggling but my motto has always been if you don't want to do the time don't do the crime.So I obtained seeds from certified shippers in the UK and Ukraine to get them. I want seeds because these super robust healthier disease resistant heirlooms are worth sharing. When you planted the strawberries in video 1 I thought perhaps you may have planted some of them just a little too deep, but if not the thick mulch covering is no different than planting too deep. The crown must be exposed. Your daughter plants will have a very difficult time penetrating the mulch to sink their baby roots into the soil. Momma plants provided all the nutrients at this embronic stage of the new plant but if the roots don't get establish they won't survive well as the umbilical degenerates between it and mom.I always parted straw or hay or whatever mulch I was using where I wanted a new plant and left those that would overwhelm the area and starve off the nutrient supplies to one another on top of the mulch. Either that or snip them off. I can understand your desire to go completely natural but doing those organic things which enhances your food production really isn't unnatural, that is exactly how farming got it's start for millennia. I add back to my soils portions of the things I have taken out of it and more. My food removes minerals and nutrients from the soils; therefore when I add back peels and leftover plant matter I feel I am adding back a little something of that which was taken taken from it. I have hard thick clay which is very nutritious for most plants but it's acidic. I have to add lime to the soil if I want anything to grow because on it's own it won't even grow weeds.I also need to add extra organic matter because trying to get a root to grow into something of an edible size, it's got to have ground that will yield to the expanding roots. This is true for carrots and onions. Parsnips wonderfully are so endurant they make a way regardless. I love a no-till method especially since I am quickly approaching 70 years, but layering down compost every year for a few years as a modified no-till method is what I have to do if I want to eat organic! I foresee eventually I won't need compost at all in the future but it'll always need mulching.
Great comment Jeanne! Thank so much for sharing your experience!
Yes, you have females. I started my asparagus from seeds, they were supposed to be all male too - but i got a couple females out of 12 plants.
When will the Back to Reality Podcast start being considered?? I'd subscribe to that 😀
Flipping the sod works very well in my area. My dad always dug the sod and set it aside, dug down another foot, flipped the sod in the row, buried in the loose soil from lower down and did the entire garden that way and those gardens were very productive compared to the larger tilled gardens done in later after we moved
you can't cover the plant tops with mulch they need light... you have to keep the mulch away from your plants and only close it in onto the plant after the height of the plant growth is tall enough.
I mulched my strawberries with 2-3 inches of leaves this winter, 95% of plants survived and I had not long transplanted them into the bed. Most had green leaves even though they were covered for 2-3 months.👍🏻🤠💪
You know for MANY years I did the ruth stout thing. But came a point that chopped leaves and heavy mulches were just not enough. I began incorporating blood and bone meals and wood ash. POOF, bigger plants, happier plants, less disease.
This is info I needed when I needed it (tho' 2 years after you posted). I've been looking into dioecious plants for a particular answer. I found that Asparagus can produce hemaphrodidic males which can bear (usually sparse and unviable) berries. My burning question is: Will all the seeds from a single berry produce plants of same sex?
from very trusting sources I've heard that sparragus "berries" are very toxic to humans . DONT EAT EM!!!!! pick em up and compost em far away from the reach of your pets I'd suggest just to be safe.
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If only our educational system could inspire others to play around and learn at the same time... enacting more abilities to learn and advance the system and society as a whole... lol, who would of thunk that... lol (🤣😂 thunk)
Man these episodes are pure gold!! Lol
Onwards to the next showing!!!
This method is also called double digging...just a friendly FYI
Thanks Hollie! I appreciate it!
I liked your Video even before it started because I knew it was going to be great
I don't know how others made out this year, but I have been finding a lot of dead dry root stock. The plant you showed in your video I'm pretty sure was dead already. I have been able to get about 50-70 strawberries to live I've seen almost as many dead and I've managed to kill another 5-10 in the blistering Florida sun. Oops. Here's hoping the final 50 for this year at least arrive alive. Good luck & keep healthy.
New subscriber here. About criticism that flipping the sod is not "natural": in its most primitive form, agriculture (farming) is a human activity that requires manipulation of growing conditions of plants that naturally occur in nature, in order to maximize the yield and therefore, secure the required amount of food human survival. In my mind, this means that agriculture is not possible without some level of human intervention. Otherwise, you could not a farmer, because the only thing you would be doing is gathering food and.... it is unlikely that you would find enough food to sustain one or two people for one year on your land. So if the sod flipping technique is the most efficient way for you to grow your food, meaning lowest effort and manipulation for the greatest yield, I see no reason for you not to do it. I have personally been lowly and painstakingly removing huge amounts of rocks (to the point we had add truck loads of soils and compost afterwards) in our tiny veggie patch... I wish I had known about hugelkulture and Ruth Stout sooner... Thanks for the great videos and educating me to low effort/low intervention techniques, your work inspires me to try these techniques at home.
I do a lot of research on this as I am working on a Moon Greenhouse system for a advanced project.
That said something you should think about is if you put the turned soil in a black plastic bag to compost to increase the soil but kill off the vegetation.
This will cause a few chemical reactions produce methane and carbon dioxide. The key is that the composting will increase the quality of the soil.
The plants in truth breath Carbon dioxide but by doing this composting enriches the soil for the plants growing.This also helps the PH of the soil.
I like your sessions .. practical and enjoyable. I have a question ... maybe you cannot answer ... I have a raised garden bed and 1 out of 4 heads have taken off. Problem is that the bed has sunken ... I want to top up 6 to 10 inches ... should I 'transplant' the one or just back fill on top? Thoughts?
Source of seed and tendency for that source to hermaphrodite is a common problem with marijuana growers. I'm one of them who has experienced this natural resiliency. Where a natural or human-made void exists, nature will fill that void.
Growing nutrient-dense vegetables successfully, versus growing a worthy harvest of good-to-great medical cannabis, involves similar concepts and processes.
Growing nutrient dense vegetables, or marijuana, does require the grower to understand how to feed the soil to produce a/the desired result.
The concept of no-till, combined with a lack of of rotation, using asparagus for example, is all about soil testing until the grower knows how to maintain the balance of the soil and how to amend the soil to maintain it at a level where the crop continues to produce nutrient-dense food. Otherwise, it's off to the market to guess which vegetables have a desired balance... if any balance exists other than profit.
Edit: Google cut all of my closing paragraph. To point, soil test, learn to read the results, and amend per recommendations. This is no-till!. If you do not do it, do it!
I dont like to dig either so i made a raised bed on top of sod for my asparagus (~30cm or 1 foot deep) in hopes it thawed sooner here in Winnipeg 🥶🇨🇦. Still 3-4feet of snow to melt until i find out results 🤞
I've never had any luck with growing strawberry crowns. Out of dozens I've planted, I've never gotten one to grow.
Need an update for the asparagus/strawberry companion planting, when new information is available. Thanks!
People look at asparagus like some crazy mystery. But it's not. I have pretty much left mine alo e si ce i itially planting many years ago and it feeds me every year. This year we had to dig up the bed toget them into a newly built thigh high raised bed as i have aquired a disability that makes the ground too far away, and i expected them to sulk, but if anything they have become more productive. As i filled the bed in a hugelculture style i am assuming they will have the energy to feed me through many more years of neglect.
I wonder if they can turn into hermaphrodites!? Asparagus that is😂👍🏻🤠
There is so much to be discovered and it is likely that nobody will know for sure how best to grow these plants on your specific property in your microclimates as good as you after a few seasons. Please keep giving us updates!
Didn't think covering strawberry crowns w mulch was a good idea but the problem could of also been more dried than average plants. I bought some bare root strawberries that looked pretty dry. Only a few green leaves out of 20. I planted them and none of the more dried out ones have show any life. I tried again with a closeout sale batch that was much worse looking. Out of about 30, 5 had some decent green tip. 10 or so were just a bit less dry than the last part that were very dry and dead looking. I planted the not quite dead and as a test I bundled the totally dried ones and put them in a pitcher of water with the level just below the crown. It turns out the migrade ones had only 1 start to grow but the very dead looking ones are popping up with green all over. They say to soak the plants for an hour or so but I'm telling you if they aren't fairly green at the top soak the roots for days and get some green showing. I may also add some liquid fert . I already gave them a bit of B vitamin.
Gender fluid plants my friend... get with the times... Let’s Go Brandon!!!
Don't apologise for using common sense as a solution to a problem.... it reminds me of how judgemental people are about people bottle feeding, when in face some people can't breast feed no matter how much they want to. Do the best you can. Simple, no judgement.
only 1 thing with those videos by men all they do is talk and talk and talk like they were the star of the show
the star is the earth and all you should do is DEMONSTRATE, not talk
No problem with turning over grass. its the exact same as mulching over. the grass will die the same way. and nothing is taken out of the soil. Don't worry about it. Its like vegans shaming other vegans that eat natural honey. its just mental posturing
I have tried the Dowding approach with success, although some plants did not survive the first attempt at planting. The nutrients must be topped up to keep these plants growing.
your posture and tone remind me of Bruce Darren from RED Gardens, especially in the intro
I’ve had lots of my male or so-called male asparagus plants produce seeds and I dig them up and kill them because they make a mess out of my yard seeds everywhere plants everywhere it’s crazy
wow, didn't know aspargus had male and female plants, i noticed that some produced berries and other didn't but thought it was bc they died before they could flower bc of the heat
This was an incredibly helpful series as I prepare to companion plant coming crowns!! I love your style. Thanks!
Asparagus is easy to grow, people just don't like to wait until the second year. I grow them from seed, much less expensive and not so much at the mercy of a store. The one thing I could say about Asparagus, if you can hold off another year and let all the sprouts form leaves, it will greatly compound what you get the third year. to me it is a bit like honey from bees... yes you can technically take some honey after the first winter, but you are much better just letting the bees prosper and then cashing in on year 3.
My asparagus berries were green for at least 2 months. They did finally turn red and left them on the plant for another month. Birds didn't disturb them. They obviously knew when the time was ripe for harvest. I decided to pick the berries one day after checking them the day before and not one berry was left - in a matter of one day...lesson learned...
Male asparagus doesn't produce berries. I have a bed full of male crowns and none of the flowers have turned to berries
My grandfather had delicious strawberries in his garden years ago. He used to give the plants a trim after the first fruiting and we'd get another later in the summer/autumn. Most tasty strawberries I ever tasted, along with the wild ones I used to pick in the forest. Have you considered growing some vertically? It looks like you have plenty of space but I think growing vertically is always good to consider. I look forward to doing it, whenever we'll have our garden.🤗
I also soak strawberry crowns for a few minutes before planting! Maybe they were too dry?
My male plants have a few small berries on them now. I am pleased to know it's not just mine. 😅
Don't 2nd year plants produce male and female, especially w/ wild ones around?
No mystery about the berries - they could be trans. It's al the rage these days and much less unusual than you might think.
Look up ‘The Weedy Gardener’ a man with a beard and his natural soil bacteria.
Don't beat yourself up about disturbing the soil, i think it'll be fine :-) i've made new beds in the spring by spreading out carsboard, just a little compost because I didn't have much and a third thin layer of mulch. that killed the weed just fine. It's still a lot of work but flipping sods is more exhausting I guess.
Love your video Style by the way, it's so relaxing :-)
We had the same thing happen with all "male" plants. There were some female plants in there and I harvested seeds last fall to try growing new seedlings to add to the bed.
Adding strawberries this year along with some herbs.
This is something I hope to try in spring 2021. I have a bunch of asparagus started in oatstraw and have mulched with some peastraw this fall - hope to get some strawberries started next spring - thanks for your tips! I'm going to go check for berries on the aparagus right now!