Easy Companion-Planted Asparagus and Strawberries (Spring of Season 4)
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Just a quick spring update about our asparagus and strawberries that we companion-planted in a single Ruth Stout style (hay only) garden bed. We originally planted the asparagus and strawberry crowns in 2019, but replaced the strawberries with transplants in 2020.
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Companion Planting Asparagus and Strawberries (No-till, Ruth Stout)
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"No-till" Asparagus and Strawberry Update (end of second season)
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I grow in raised beds. The asparagus and strawberry companion planting worked for us, but in a raised bed with multiple rows of both plants, the strawberries were always damp in the center. We had a lot of rotten berries. I dug and thinned the strawberries this year. I think we’ll find a new home for those and work on a new plant for the asparagus…
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Lol, thanks for noticing ;)
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I'm not doing the man-bun thing, though. Sorry, I'm old school, ponytail all the way for me :p
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Have strawberries going wild as didn't think last year was so happy to see this video! Will add height and texture if they take hold.
Love this! I followed your idea as well in my garden in 2020 - still not getting good catch with the strawberries but maybe will add more crowns this season. Thanks for the update!
They should be coming up again soon 👍🏻🤠
How have you only got a scattered planting of strawberries after 3 years? Do they get killed off by frost? I was hoping to see how your strawberry yield was in the 4th year.
Im in the sub tropics so by our fourth year, strawberry plants have filled out their beds. Usually 2nd year they are rotated to another bed and replaced with a cover crop. Where I have left beds to go for longer than 2 years, strawberry size and yield were reduced and disease and pests were increased.
We have wild asparagus too :3 it came up late compaired to our domestic variety last year for some reason as well. About 2 weeks actually.
Our wild variety is female though. So not sure if that has anything to do with it.
How about adding garlic in that mix - does it play nice with the asparagus?
From what I've read, asparagus doesn't grow well when in close proximity to garlic, onions, or chives. :(
I just planted strawberries, asparagus, and LEEKS together! I appreciate the warning and will probably move the leeks!
Hay? You mean straw? Hay has seeds ?
Hay used for mulch prevents stuff from growing.... stuff like, oh, hay for example.. I suspect if you had enough hay seeds that you could use them for mulch.
I ended up with mostly female asparagus plants from the crowns I bought last year, and I decided to just leave them since I'm not hurting for space. I let them go natural last fall and the seeds ended up all over. I now have dozens of tiny asparagus seedlings coming up all over the entire area lol.
This combination is actually my favorite vegetable bed in my garden. My strawberries are doing amazingly well, at least a handful a day, and the asparagus are doing great. I leave the ferns alone until they dry out. Mine are expanding but maybe it’s because I let it go to seed
We're on year two of a strawberry tower with sixty crowns, which has got a metric butt-ton of green strawberries on it already. They spread into blank spots in the tower, and threw out a couple more around into the mulch border. Oh well, more strawberries...
And our six asparagus crowns are on year three, and we've already harvested a few meals worth already. We're letting some of the taller stalks fern out now, but still harvesting the newer ones which come up
They're not companion planted, but still doing well..
i dont have any real facts to back this up, but I like to leave 1 asparagus shoot to grow and fern while harvesting the rest. I feel like it will keep the root system healthy.
Yes, from what I understand you're suppose to harvest for a month then let the rest fern out to grow more roots.
Hey awsome video, and for the asparagus i don't know if it's a fact or a myth but as of my knowledge asparagus tend to shoot spears right after a couple days of rain. So maybe because you water your garden the asparagus speared up earlyer
I'm just starting to try and grow in earnest. Again. 😅 I keep having fabulous success with transplants and "volunteers" that are local - so wild strawberries, multiple volunteer mulberry trees (For 13 years or so I let a section of my property "go wild" and have been loving much of the results). I also have a crab apple tree that first produced last year. Not many, but looking good for baking etc maybe. Raspberries, and I'm currently working with blackberries (hope they take well). However, anything I've cultivated from seed .... 😵
I'm gonna backtrack and watch some of your vids. I hope I'll learn much from you 👍
I'm r we're ally interested in "companion planting" and other ways to reduce monoculture rows (probably wrong term, but hopefully you get the point😂) I also want to understand enough that resources that are common but problematic, like peat, I can begin to understand how to try for those RESULTS, but with locally sourced resources and tools.
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wow awesome video!! but how about making a video on the diet your doing you look great!!
This made my laugh as I've been checking my (first time) transplants daily. Today was the first day I saw a little spear poking through the soil as well and I was so excited to see it :)
My patch is always 2-4 weeks early. Vs the wild asparagus in my area. Grown from seed I harvested from wild type.
Hi guys Mike here from Calabogie Rustic Farm ( Calabogie Ont.) We have started a small permaculture market garden here and today is the day we will be receiving some more of our seedling plants. Just so happens that it's both asparagus and strawberries. I know where i want to put the asparagus but I've been labouring over where to plant the strawberries. I now have the solution thanks. I'll update you on the progress.
That's great! Please do keep us updated. Good luck! :)
Are you laying hay? Or straw? Hay tends to have a lot of seeds since it's primarily used for feed. Straw would be the seedless stuff
We planted our asparagus and strawberries last year, it was really hard not to eat any of the big stalks that came up all through the summer! We are really looking forward to seeing how it comes along this season. You folks have been a huge help in teaching us to be better in our garden and to our planet!
I have been waiting for this update. I planted strawberries and asparagus together last year after seeing your video!
I did it too, but two years ago! My asperagus was from seed, so no harvests for those for few more years. My strawberries is all over the bed and I’m happy that I did this “experiment” aswell.
I can't believe those plants are trans
Asparagus and strawberries -- two of my favourites! Thanks for the update. It's great that you can feast on the wild asparagus while you patiently wait for your domestic crops get to the point where you can harvest them :-)
Your killing me man, you talk too much. Its like you like the sound of your own voice. You’ll start talking about the topic, then you ver off in a tangent to talk anout something else. I just can’t deal with it, drives me nuts.
Mister, is this cool new hair of yours the reason why we weren't seeing you in the previous videos lately? 😅
I cant wait to see footage of your field covered with red strawberries from all those daughter plants!
Would love to know your everbearing strawberry variety!? Great videos. Love the new look.
Do strawberry and asparagus complement each others growth?
Asparagus is one of those things I've been putting off forever, for no good reason. If I'd planted some four years ago I'd have been enjoying it for a while now.
TBF we've moved since then so I'd have had to start all over anyway, ho ho!
The suspense is killing me.... What was the fate of the wild asparagus?
Rocking the "garden guru" look with the long hair, I see!
The asparagus shades out the strawberries in my garden
So you usually unburry a the tip of the crowns in the spring?
Great tips. On the plant companion. I will have to try this.
Thank you for sharing g this video. I’m a RUclips gardener too trying to learn as much as I can about companion planting. That’s how I found your channel. Im so happy I did because your channel has so much to offer. I hope we can learn from each other as we grow our gardens and our channels! Happy Planting!
How about watermelon 🍉 does it need hay too? How long does it take to grow Strawberries and Asperagus
Watermelon is very thirsty, so yes mulching around the plants is almost mandatory. Or you'll be watering it almost constantly, especially when fruiting really gets going.
Pretty much everything benefits from mulch.
It would help to know what zone you are in!
Nice change of the video type.
Respect from Africa.
What breed are the strawberries?
Heh ? Who the hell digs up a big trench and fills it with compost and manure for asparagus ? I've never heard this.... Dunno who told you this, but it's really stupid advice... You grow veggies in SOIL, not pure compost... The trench part helps to plant the crown, but you don't fill it with pure compost... you just put the soil back on, and add a bit of compost on top if you want, and then mulch, that"s the normal method. Asparagus are perennials, they don't need a ton of added organic matter...
I like your new look Derek!
Thanks Keith, I appreciate that! :)
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Is hay very important for Strawberries 🍓
Some sort of mulch is usually recommended for strawberries (especially for overwintering), but it doesn't have to be hay. I think most people would likely suggest straw, but we use hay throughout our garden anyway (and it's what Ruth Stout used), so we stuck with it on this bed too.
Here's another video / playlist with more info about that: ruclips.net/video/mJ8ueya4HtI/видео.html
@@BackToReality I love hay mulch, but it's getting REALLY hard to find hay or straw (or compost or manure) here that's not contaminated with persistent broadleaf herbicides. That stuff is a real nightmare.
I'm at the point now where I cannot really grow enough grass etc to make all the mulch I want, so I'm actually considering thinning out some trees on our property mainly to chip them up for mulch. That's not ideal, but it may become the only option.
We have volunteer asparagus growing in our front planters. We also see it all around here along the roads at the tops of the ditches next to farm fields. At the right times of the year, the asparagus ferns are easy to see above all the grasses and weeds. The asparagus is in a video I posted last year. Check it out if you like. ruclips.net/video/0QcRe8V4BPQ/видео.html
I think a shallower asparagus is a pro! I threw some in the ground one year because I never got around to planting them.. they grew amazing. I’m then I made an amazing trenched asparagus bed that took hours by had. They bed hasn’t done nearly as well!!
I haven't started growing any cultivated asparagus yet, partly due to the effort it seems to take to start, so it's great to see that you can do it without all the amendments and digging! We are based in Italy and we have TONS of wild asparagus in our woods. Sadly we have so much work to do on our land we rarely have time to go wandering, and up to this year foragers seem to get all the wild spears from our land when we're not there. But my understanding is that the new spears can pop up even around 50cm to a meter from the mother plants, so it's worth looking in the whole area for new ones.
Very cool!
Good luck keeping the strawberries in control.
Every time i watch one of your videos I'm trying to figure out if you further north than me, your asparagus is ahead of mine so i'm guessing your slightly south and east.
Still not sure if this is good idea. Your killing me bro 😆 guess I am just going to have to try it and see what happens
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Good idea...i have used mints with asparagus with good results also. May try all 3 together!
nice!!I would love2 have wild asparagus in Australia!
I have a few beds of asparagus-straberry and will add more this year. It is so nice to grow and not much work to do!
Found your channel today and have been working my way back through your catalog. You guys are already my favourite gardening channel!
Just getting my strawberry and asparagus bed started this year, I am hopeful but we shall see
How are the fruit trees doing? Have you planted more or not yet?
how many years do you get out of your strawberry plants ??? ✌️🖖
Did this last year, all the strawberry’s died. The asparagus is doing great.
Do you chop and drop them after they set their fruit? They can set seed to spread.
Do you add Urea about 2weeks before it is due to come up? It helps my patch
Got a surprise seeing you pop up on screen, looking well my dude.
Who's this old guy with the same voice as the last guy? 🤔
Very exciting!!! Can't wait for the next update!! ⭐
Yt never recommends you to me. Thankfully I check sometimes. Love your work xxx
I'm so glad you check! :)
Thanks for watching!
I get the sense people are having a late spring everywhere.
How does the wild asparagus taste or do you eat it?
We haven't eaten any yet, but maybe we should do a comparison taste test this year! :)
@@BackToReality Please do, I'm really curious!
AFAIK wild asparagus is not the same plant as cultivated asparagus. But it might be different where u live 🤔
I liked this style of video. Keep it up!
Great follow-up!
This is sooooo exciting!
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I grew up for a time at a house that had a huge strawberry and asparagus garden, that was over forty years ago. I loved going out and getting them and this actually was probably why I love to garden in my fifties. They were is a semi shaded area that was at least 300 square feet. I have planted and been able to harvest for the first time this year my own asparagus and will be planting in my strawberries this year, I did a raised bed because we're in the mountains and the beds warm up faster. I will be covering them with alfalfa soon and a small hoop and netting because of wild animals. I initially started with wood chips and will be using hay, it's been a challenge to get ahold of some this year. I started my onions late but will be using the majority for scallions.
Nasty asparagus grows wild here. Can't kill it. Can't stand it. It's taken me years to kill the planted stuff someone put in my garden before i owned the place. Its a noxious weed that shoots up fast and goes to seed fast but sucks moisture out of the soil all summer.
How unconclusive this has been.
I remember on your bed, you said that someone told you in the comments that you shouldn't have put hay on the strawberries until they were growing?
I made a bed like yours, asparagus and strawberries. I didn't lay any hay over the bed yet, waiting for the strawberries to grow.
Most of the strawberry plants have sprouted now, and are growing great. The asparagus are growing great, too (which surprised me because I planted them all just 3 weeks ago lol).
Do you reckon its ok to go ahead and cover the ground with hay now? Or should I just wait?
Jesus Christ man, you're looking good! no homo!
lol, thanks man ;)
Oh, dear! What happened to you man ? You look different and possibly sick. Anyway, take care and stay safe.
Lol, all good here. Just lost a good amount of weight (and got a couple years older) since I was last in front of the camera. Thanks for the concern though ;)
@@BackToReality great to hear that you are doing well.
Please post more videos frequently. Thanks
Jeeez, the dude's hair got a little grey in it, that's all. Relax. It happens to all of us. Some of us just don't bother covering it up.
I watched your companion planting video and did something similar in my backyard. The asparagus grew like mad (6 foot ferns) the first 2 years - I think it liked my wet yard. But I made the mistake of planting that tall ferny weedy-looking plant too close to my back patio. I didn't mind the strawberries there because they don't grow so tall.
So early this spring I moved some of them - and that was a beast of a job. But even the transplants are shooting up and are growing well. I'm harvesting from plants I didn't move, just incase I had to start over. But I think it will work fine. Lesson learned - asparagus like wet. At least in my yard. And strawberries will fill in the holes well enough! Can't go wrong with more berries.