This is intriguing...its as if perennials are slowly walking across the earth... The older they are, the "farther they travel." I love to see the parallels in plant and animal behavior. There should be a pixar movie made about the plant world
My wife and I were finally after 12 years able to buy our 1st home on 1.77 acres. This our 1st year gardening in our new home. I did get in some brussel sprouts and butter crunch lettuce (my favorite for BLT's) fall of 2019. We began farming in 2014 but we rented and owners either didn't like our chickens, or they didn't like our greenhouse, or they didn't like our dairy goats, soon to be our dairy source and our source for making premium compost. The best. I've never seen so many worms. Love your show. I hope though I'm not as good on camera as you to behind the scenes follow in your footsteps and get my wife who is sparkly on camera to be the face for our show one day. You have done an amazing job over the years. We live in the south because we also have autoimmune diseases we are excited to now be able to enjoy organic food and begin a little produce business.
Where we live, every year in the spring I have to rake up the rocks that popped up from the winter freeze. If I don't, I wind up having to change a couple of mower blades. I will say, however, I have found a couple of very nice arrow-heads!!
James O'Connell I live in Manitoba and we live off the river (you'd never know it with the house density in my area though) And out whole garden is basically clay and rocks... I think we have orchids that must be 50 years old too... the root system is 2 square feet and growing over itself at this point lol... I need to dig it up in fall I think...
Mine does this as well. I think they're coming up from deep within the Earth. I guess the asparagus could always adapt and become hydroponic. I used to do experiments with rock gardens and they always worked as a kid.
if u want to get rid of the grape vine wait till buds and brush enzyme blocker on leaves and stem. large stems pound in copper nails or wrap in copper wire. the copper will kill the vines
Ok i had a pretty big and deep planter I was going to grow asparagus in. I think i'll shelve that idea now. These things are gonna need to go in the ground. lol
I have a battery-operated portable camping shower. What I do when I transplant; I dig around the plant just like in the video, then I spray off the dirt away with collected rain water. I might be wrong, I don't have any education in agriculture or anything, but it seems the less dirt left from the previous area the quicker they rebound and start growing in the new area. My mother showed me that trick like 30 years ago. They used to use watering cans back then, but it's the same idea. Anyone else do that?
I lived in Florida for many years and saw a lot of wild asparagus. My wife harvested handfuls of it each year and we enjoyed eating it. The stalks were a lot thinner than cultivated asparagus, but tasted just as good. We never had any that were stringy.
I’m gonna go searching your channel for updates. I hope I find one! I’m actually stoked to see your still/ AND SO ACTIVE. glad I found a new gardening Channel to get involved in!
I wish I would have known 5 years ago what I know now. I tried moving my old asparagus roots and I killed them. After a lot of research, I now can move asparagus with ease. These are great tips. :)
Luke, please help. After my grandfather passed away we didn't know how to care for the family farm's 50+ year old amazing asparagus plants and they've appeared to have died!! I think someone may have cut them wrongly the next season after he passed. ? Not sure. I'm also sure they weren't fertilized like my Vavoo (Portuguese for grandfather who, by the way, from eating his own Cape Cod grown veggies lived to almost 101 years old! Amazing strong man!!) used to fertilize either. Do you think I'll find roots in the ground? Or what should I do? Is there a chance to save them? I have t even look d to see if there's any growth for a couple of years. Also need help on what to do after my dad, again not knowing what he's doing, had my brother HACK the apple trees before I could get there to properly prune them! They are over 75 years old, hadn't been pruned for over 40 years, were kinda cut at by my dad and brother in 2014 and we got apples but with mold, over crowded, etc. This year 2016 my dad had my brother almost kill the trees (ignorantly of course). Any hope for the apple trees? I plan on using sucker branches to encourage new branches to grow since he cut everything off on the bottom and middle but left LONG OLD branches all crowded at the ends!! I nearly fainted!! Any help would be appreciated on how to save an over pruned or wrongly pruned old apple tree.
CheriByGrace wow...sad. Hope you can save them. Good luck. Would love to see a blog on this story if u manage to turn asparagus and trees around (or not). :):)
Thanks Luke! I will do this if we ever move away. This year I started asparagus from seed & will want to take them with me if we ever change locations.
This is so helpful. I bought a house and this spring discovered I had asparagus, along with all sorts of other edibles. There are about 25 shoots that I just let go as it was pretty tasteless. The bed is choked with grass, very little open soil, I can see it needs help but didn't know what was going on in the roots. Now I know how to clean out the bed and hopefully fertilize and mulch for a better crop next year. It will be one of my fall projects.
Keeper of the Random Pickle some kinds reseed themselves so the bed can last nearly forever as long as they are fed. And some of the hardier varieties of asparagus plants can produce for 30 or even 40 years is properly cared for!
@@sortathesame8701 theoretically, since plants do not age like humans do, perennials could live forever given perfect conditions ( no disease, infinite soil quality and quantity, zero weeds, no pests, perfect weather conditions, and precise moisture/ph conditions.
I absolutely love all your videos. This asparagus transplant was so much more than I would thought to get mine out. Wow, did not know it would be so large! Great job you do always.
I had a 20 year old asparagus bed that was only producing in certain spots. I thought it was because some of the crowns had died but I knew some were strong so decided after watching this to dig the bed up. Was I surprized to find the reason for poor production was the roots were intertwined and choking each other out. I had enough large crowns to make a raised bed 3 times the size of the initial bed.
MIgardener - did that big old asparagus you transplanted from the beach survive? Can you give us an update? I've looked through hundreds of comments and couldn't find an update from you - many, many of us have asked you...
Luke, I love your videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insights! And don't feel bad about breaking a shovel, you are not the only one who has done it. I've broken several in the garden trying to dig up tree roots, etc. May God bless and smile upon you and your family!
Very cool Luke. I have always wanted to grow Asparagus. I hope it transplants well, looks like it needs a good soak in some liquid seaweed to stimulate those roots again. Looking forward to seeing the first crop. Happy Gardening/Farming Marty Ware (Australian Micro Farmer)
Barbi Button - Liquid seaweed has some fertilizer qualities, though I'm not sure the exact NPK rating. Its not going to be a full balanced fertilizer, but with organics, your adding ingredients that contribute in part to create a balanced fertilizer. The major benefit of seaweed in that instance is the minerals and vitamins it contributes to minimize shock, in conjunction with the nutrients to stimulate root growth.
Love the videos, thank you...I have a small city lot....and half of the front yard are wood munched. Flower beds.where I plant my tomatoes, peppers, eggplant...so far so good...added asparagus 3 years ago 5of 10 originals still going with no effort on my part...I will be adding fertilizer as you Recommend...maybe it will help them survive better here in northern Ohio. Again, thanks!
What about the tail end of the root that broke off? Did you plant it? Did it grow? (Would it normally grow if you tried to divide the plant like that?)
Awesome. I never thought about growing asparagus before but I can sure wolf some down. Lol. Enjoyed the video, Luke. Whoever is holding the camera is doing an amazing job.
I had asparagus at a different location. It got choked out by grass and weeds. I fought it for years because we have really clay soil here in the Pacific NW. Going to plant this year adding lots of sand, compost & manure. Thank you for sharing!
Just found this one. Great video. When I was young, we lived on a US Government Ordinance Plant. Your fencing brought back wonderful memories of how excited I would get when the corp started putting up snow fences. Ours were bright red and were made very similar to yours.
Looks a bit like the Flying Spaghetti Monster. My Ozark Hillbilly mother taught me to ALWAYS over do it when digging up a plant to replant or to prepare the hole for its new home. Meaning: however big you think you should dig the root ball / new hole, increase that by 50% or more. Prep the new home by breaking up the surrounding sides and bottom to allow water flow and root penetration. Amend the new hole generously with nutrients /mulch. Based on my neighbors and wife, I probably spend two to three times as long on any given tree or large shrub I replant. But my replants always thrive.
Wow Luke, what a root mass on that asparagus, I knew they had long roots as my little 2 year olds had some pretty impressive roots, but that guy of yours is crazy! and I have to give you props for digging that big hole, LOL. That took a lot of energy!
Impressive! 🌱 I started some from seeds last year and they are already sending their first real shoots! They are at least a foot tall. I know we still can't touch them , ideally not till the year after next. They seen to do very well here so I might make a very large area for them so we can sell our surplus, or can it, or both. People comment on how patient I am, but I am watering the garden anyway and for us, the few years of nurturing them will last us the rest of our lives as we are 55+. (When we are older the years seem to go by much faster.) This winter seems to have sped by faster than any I can remember! Waiting another 2 years till we can harvest our asparagus really isn't very long considering how many years they will pay us back 🌱 By the way.. We are expecting several nights under 30 degrees next week, will they need to be covered?
It is amazing hard moving and splitting asparagus crowns is. It is a young mans game for sure. I had one that has been in my garden for 30 - 40 years. A huge and amazingly productive plant but it has got to the point it needed to be split and given more room. Thank God I have a mini excavator because if I had to hand dig it, it would have been a 2 day project. Then, once I had it dug I had to split the crowns. Again a major workout. I pressure washed off the dirt then with 2 garden forks pried apart the crowns and gently (not really) pulled apart the thick jungle of roots. Once the crowns were split I had 9 new plants planted in renovated and manured rows. Not sure how long these guys live but I'm sure they will be happy to be free from the root bound mass they had become over the last 30 years.
@@hal7ter As a follow up... not one of the separated crowns lived. It is possible the plant had reached old age and was not long for this world anyway. Since then I bought young crowns of an all male variety and they are growing well and will produce for many years to come.
Do you think if you planted the part of the root that broke off it would generate a new plant? Also, great information. I tried to dig up my (ONE) year old asparagus plants and move them because I didn't realize they would get so tall and shade other plants in my garden. And I couldn't believe how deep the roots were. They ended up winning and getting to stay where they were. I planted them in a raised bed (Back to Eden Garden), the base was nothing but rocks. The plants weren't budging, so they got to stay. All is well, they seem happy there. This year the plants are over 6 feet tall. Note, it's best to do a little research on the plants and put them where you want them! :)
that huge piece would have made a wonderful plant! I hated to see him toss it aside, it would have been much better than the little ones in the bed! Maybe spread out the roots better, with the plant's health in mind, not so much the bed as priority, again it would have been better to move some of the little new ones for proper planting of the ? a century old plant?, omg, and with added sand may have been better
If there are any sheep or goat owners near you, they will lend you their animals to clean that spot of grape vines. We have two Finn sheep and they LOVE grape vines:)
Luke ~ May I suggest you do a video giving your thoughts on salting your asparagus bed? Or what method to keep weeds down around asparagus. I have a large bed of asparagus out in the middle of a pasture.... and it is a struggle to harvest and compete against the weeds. Looking for some guidance.
OMG. That Asparagus is so impressive. I just transplanted 5 plants to a better location from pots to ground. I will put a good animal fence around it will have very small opening against mice and all. Can't wait until spring & summer. Thanks.
Yeah I usually keep a bucket of sifted soil or sifted compost when I'm transplanting so it flows between the roots better. Worm castings work as well. I like to lay some in around the roots anyone just to make sure they have plenty of nutrients to get the new growth started.
This year is the first time growing asparagus. I bought seeds. You are very informative thanks. I have yet planted the seedlings in their garden. Should the soil be sandy like yours?
here is a thought, you see that it will grow in sand and near a beach, Imagine growing these on your levees! grow them closer together and the wave action will not take the levee down PLUS you get asparagus! WIN_WIN! The Orientals in California farming the leveed areas did this in the 1800s. Now the levees are weak since this knowledge died out.
tiny wild grapes make excellent and delicious grape preserves, jams, and jellies. if you structure the growth they will produce good edible fruits. the level of grape flavor coming from the wild grapes is incredible. we intentionally seek them out for a food source.
- sheri armstrong Agreed. We pick them every late summer/early autumn for wine making, jellies, jams, etc. they are so much more vigorous and resistant than commercial grapes/wines.
blueberries, blackberries and raspberries all grow wild in the US in various locations. As do grapes and papayas, passion fruit and elderberries, and so on. There are so many fruits and veggies we have that grow naturally in the wild but we are programmed and trained to expect our food to come from stores and markets and not simply outdoors. It is likely that the fruit you find growing wild is much less contaminated than anything you buy at a store. However you do have to be very certain that the fruit you find s in fact what you believe it is. there are "look - a - likes" in nature. Some of which can be toxic. But with minimal effort and reading up, researching, etc you can fairly easily tell the difference.
i have been told you are supposed to divide the asparagus. I havent done mine but I need to. They have been out there for years. Hope you replanted the other parts of the roots or shared them with someone.
Man! There are people who would drive to MI for those grapes! Wild grapes make the best jelly. Try it sometime. Thanks for the "Tips on the Tips" also!
You guys should do a 1 year update on the asparagus, I'm invested now
my thoughts excactly!
How are they doing in their new location, Luke?
Please do an update on it!
Sarah Weiler eventually its dead 💀 LOL
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Wow, 40 year old asparagus. Very cool. Thanks
+Eros Thanks for watching!
This is intriguing...its as if perennials are slowly walking across the earth... The older they are, the "farther they travel." I love to see the parallels in plant and animal behavior. There should be a pixar movie made about the plant world
My wife and I were finally after 12 years able to buy our 1st home on 1.77 acres. This our 1st year gardening in our new home. I did get in some brussel sprouts and butter crunch lettuce (my favorite for BLT's) fall of 2019. We began farming in 2014 but we rented and owners either didn't like our chickens, or they didn't like our greenhouse, or they didn't like our dairy goats, soon to be our dairy source and our source for making premium compost. The best. I've never seen so many worms. Love your show. I hope though I'm not as good on camera as you to behind the scenes follow in your footsteps and get my wife who is sparkly on camera to be the face for our show one day. You have done an amazing job over the years. We live in the south because we also have autoimmune diseases we are excited to now be able to enjoy organic food and begin a little produce business.
Don't be embarrassed about snapping your shovel Luke, if you've never snapped a shovel, you aren't digging hard enough lol
I'm only embarrassed by the number of snapped shovels helping to clutter up my garage!
I go through 1 or 2 a year. I started buying metal shovels and I still broke 1 of them.
the leaves from those wild grapes will really help give your pickles crunch. two washed leaves per pint.
12:31 Today you found out that hockey pucks indeed do not grow.
+Aiden .C haha, I was wondering what that was.
+Aiden .C LOL
Lol
A 'snake' firework though, kind of a growing hockey puck in it's own way.
LMAO
If only digging were that easy in my soil. I think it breeds rocks.
Where we live, every year in the spring I have to rake up the rocks that popped up from the winter freeze. If I don't, I wind up having to change a couple of mower blades. I will say, however, I have found a couple of very nice arrow-heads!!
James O'Connell I live in Manitoba and we live off the river (you'd never know it with the house density in my area though) And out whole garden is basically clay and rocks... I think we have orchids that must be 50 years old too... the root system is 2 square feet and growing over itself at this point lol... I need to dig it up in fall I think...
My house/garden is built on an old brick foundry. My tiller was not happy when i first cut my garden lol
you plant asparagus in sand. thats not naturally occurring soil.
Mine does this as well. I think they're coming up from deep within the Earth. I guess the asparagus could always adapt and become hydroponic. I used to do experiments with rock gardens and they always worked as a kid.
if u want to get rid of the grape vine wait till buds and brush enzyme blocker on leaves and stem. large stems pound in copper nails or wrap in copper wire. the copper will kill the vines
Love homegrown asparagus. We have a bed that's 30+ years old :)
You made this video back in 2016, how is the transplant doing 4 years later? I would love to see it!!!!
rescue more of those asparagus and give them to people to save!
Ok i had a pretty big and deep planter I was going to grow asparagus in. I think i'll shelve that idea now. These things are gonna need to go in the ground. lol
I have a battery-operated portable camping shower. What I do when I transplant; I dig around the plant just like in the video, then I spray off the dirt away with collected rain water. I might be wrong, I don't have any education in agriculture or anything, but it seems the less dirt left from the previous area the quicker they rebound and start growing in the new area. My mother showed me that trick like 30 years ago. They used to use watering cans back then, but it's the same idea. Anyone else do that?
Oh wow, did you end up harvesting any asparagus from it?
Did you read the comments before you asked?
HOLY MOLY!!! THATS A CRAZY ROOT.
BLESSINGS, julie
I lived in Florida for many years and saw a lot of wild asparagus. My wife harvested handfuls of it each year and we enjoyed eating it. The stalks were a lot thinner than cultivated asparagus, but tasted just as good. We never had any that were stringy.
I’m gonna go searching your channel for updates. I hope I find one! I’m actually stoked to see your still/ AND SO ACTIVE. glad I found a new gardening Channel to get involved in!
I wish I would have known 5 years ago what I know now. I tried moving my old asparagus roots and I killed them. After a lot of research, I now can move asparagus with ease. These are great tips. :)
Luke, please help. After my grandfather passed away we didn't know how to care for the family farm's 50+ year old amazing asparagus plants and they've appeared to have died!! I think someone may have cut them wrongly the next season after he passed. ? Not sure. I'm also sure they weren't fertilized like my Vavoo (Portuguese for grandfather who, by the way, from eating his own Cape Cod grown veggies lived to almost 101 years old! Amazing strong man!!) used to fertilize either. Do you think I'll find roots in the ground? Or what should I do? Is there a chance to save them? I have t even look d to see if there's any growth for a couple of years. Also need help on what to do after my dad, again not knowing what he's doing, had my brother HACK the apple trees before I could get there to properly prune them! They are over 75 years old, hadn't been pruned for over 40 years, were kinda cut at by my dad and brother in 2014 and we got apples but with mold, over crowded, etc. This year 2016 my dad had my brother almost kill the trees (ignorantly of course). Any hope for the apple trees? I plan on using sucker branches to encourage new branches to grow since he cut everything off on the bottom and middle but left LONG OLD branches all crowded at the ends!! I nearly fainted!! Any help would be appreciated on how to save an over pruned or wrongly pruned old apple tree.
CheriByGrace wow...sad. Hope you can save them. Good luck. Would love to see a blog on this story if u manage to turn asparagus and trees around (or not). :):)
Thanks Luke! I will do this if we ever move away. This year I started asparagus from seed & will want to take them with me if we ever change locations.
Dude, you are the man. Thanks so much for putting this out there. Just trying to better manage a asparagus that I found on my property!
This is so helpful. I bought a house and this spring discovered I had asparagus, along with all sorts of other edibles. There are about 25 shoots that I just let go as it was pretty tasteless. The bed is choked with grass, very little open soil, I can see it needs help but didn't know what was going on in the roots. Now I know how to clean out the bed and hopefully fertilize and mulch for a better crop next year. It will be one of my fall projects.
There are asparagus beds in England more than 300 years old ... !!
They only grow to 20 yrs
@@JL-xj4rj he said asparagus BED not asparagus
Keeper of the Random Pickle some kinds reseed themselves so the bed can last nearly forever as long as they are fed. And some of the hardier varieties of asparagus plants can produce for 30 or even 40 years is properly cared for!
@@sortathesame8701 theoretically, since plants do not age like humans do, perennials could live forever given perfect conditions ( no disease, infinite soil quality and quantity, zero weeds, no pests, perfect weather conditions, and precise moisture/ph conditions.
@@sortathesame8701 is that based on science? Got a sauce?
Dude. Exciting???? You got my vote. Well done
Wow, I never knew they could get that big. One of my goals is to get an asparagus bed going. Very good that I saw that. Thank you!
+Mark Oliver ditto, planted a bit at the church, now need to find a spot at home. I've got stuff everywhere and am running out of room..lol
Mark Oliv
I did.
“Wow, I never knew they could get that big.” That’s what she said
This lady my daughter rents from has an asparagus plant that's one hundred years old, WOW, I could not imagine the roots from that!!!
oh man... I can't imagine!
Holy moly that's huge Luke! That will be wonderful up in your own garden. Color me Amazed!
I absolutely love all your videos. This asparagus transplant was so much more than I would thought to get mine out. Wow, did not know
it would be so large! Great job you do always.
That was helpful thanks. It made me think can you divide old plants to make more like older clumps of strawberries. You can.
I had a 20 year old asparagus bed that was only producing in certain spots. I thought it was because some of the crowns had died but I knew some were strong so decided after watching this to dig the bed up. Was I surprized to find the reason for poor production was the roots were intertwined and choking each other out. I had enough large crowns to make a raised bed 3 times the size of the initial bed.
It looks like a face hugger. Lock the doors.
+SleestaksRule lol
SleestaksRule
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopooooooo
Wow that is an amazing plant, and information. Glad to hear it will get many more years of care.
Wow beautiful !!
Hi, 5/2016 you transplanted a 15+ yr. old Asparagus from the beach to your own Asparagus garden. Its 8/2018, did the transplant grow well?
Love your video Luke...shared to Pinterest and Facebook...share the wealth of gardening...
Make the world a better place..!
God bless
Susan
Wow, that's one hard working man!
Good video. Best
+Tom M Thanks!!! :D
MIgardener - did that big old asparagus you transplanted from the beach survive? Can you give us an update? I've looked through hundreds of comments and couldn't find an update from you - many, many of us have asked you...
Luke, I love your videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insights! And don't feel bad about breaking a shovel, you are not the only one who has done it. I've broken several in the garden trying to dig up tree roots, etc. May God bless and smile upon you and your family!
Since they grow the way u mentioned, dont u think u might be able to cut off some of the oldest roots and just keep like half of them. ?
+bintlooda It doesn't work like that sadly. Once broke, the roots behind the growing point are useless.
Very cool Luke. I have always wanted to grow Asparagus. I hope it transplants well, looks like it needs a good soak in some liquid seaweed to stimulate those roots again.
Looking forward to seeing the first crop.
Happy Gardening/Farming
Marty Ware (Australian Micro Farmer)
martysgarden is liquid seaweed a fertilizer for veggie plants?
Barbi Button - Liquid seaweed has some fertilizer qualities, though I'm not sure the exact NPK rating. Its not going to be a full balanced fertilizer, but with organics, your adding ingredients that contribute in part to create a balanced fertilizer. The major benefit of seaweed in that instance is the minerals and vitamins it contributes to minimize shock, in conjunction with the nutrients to stimulate root growth.
Luke.. how'd the asparagus transplant do after transplanting?
Can you look off all those vines and make baskets? I've often wondered about that.
Love the videos, thank you...I have a small city lot....and half of the front yard are wood munched. Flower beds.where I plant my tomatoes, peppers, eggplant...so far so good...added asparagus 3 years ago 5of 10 originals still going with no effort on my part...I will be adding fertilizer as you Recommend...maybe it will help them survive better here in northern Ohio. Again, thanks!
What about the tail end of the root that broke off? Did you plant it? Did it grow? (Would it normally grow if you tried to divide the plant like that?)
It is gonna keep growing but slower
Awesome. I never thought about growing asparagus before but I can sure wolf some down. Lol. Enjoyed the video, Luke. Whoever is holding the camera is doing an amazing job.
Looks like an Alien. I think Sci Fi writers got their inspiration from nature lol
I had asparagus at a different location. It got choked out by grass and weeds. I fought it for years because we have really clay soil here in the Pacific NW. Going to plant this year adding lots of sand, compost & manure.
Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful roots. Nice
Informative video Luke, thank you.
very good thanks.
Lovely job! At 8:40 is that a smaller crown, right next to your hand?
Thanks for sharing. I do a little gardening my self too and I enjoy doing it every year .💚
Love this video ,thank You for posting
Luke, WOW, that is some perennial! I never thought of vegetables, some of them anyway being perennial. Learned something new! Thx
monster asparagus!
I wanted to shout out!!!! My orange rosalini's are growing!! Can't wait to transplant them. Thank you so much.
Just found this one. Great video. When I was young, we lived on a US Government Ordinance Plant. Your fencing brought back wonderful memories of how excited I would get when the corp started putting up snow fences. Ours were bright red and were made very similar to yours.
What beach did you go to, Luke?
That is an awesome video on asparagus !! Thank you !
Looks a bit like the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
My Ozark Hillbilly mother taught me to ALWAYS over do it when digging up a plant to replant or to prepare the hole for its new home. Meaning: however big you think you should dig the root ball / new hole, increase that by 50% or more. Prep the new home by breaking up the surrounding sides and bottom to allow water flow and root penetration. Amend the new hole generously with nutrients /mulch.
Based on my neighbors and wife, I probably spend two to three times as long on any given tree or large shrub I replant. But my replants always thrive.
Wow Luke, what a root mass on that asparagus, I knew they had long roots as my little 2 year olds had some pretty impressive roots, but that guy of yours is crazy! and I have to give you props for digging that big hole, LOL. That took a lot of energy!
+The Abled Gardener I was WIPED. Never again lol. I got that one plant and I am happy.
@@MIgardener Luke, please tell us what happened to that asparagus.
those are wine grapes. if you trim off 2 out of every three clusters of grapes they will grow juicier and make a fine wine grape or cooking grapes
Impressive! 🌱 I started some from seeds last year and they are already sending their first real shoots! They are at least a foot tall. I know we still can't touch them , ideally not till the year after next. They seen to do very well here so I might make a very large area for them so we can sell our surplus, or can it, or both. People comment on how patient I am, but I am watering the garden anyway and for us, the few years of nurturing them will last us the rest of our lives as we are 55+. (When we are older the years seem to go by much faster.) This winter seems to have sped by faster than any I can remember! Waiting another 2 years till we can harvest our asparagus really isn't very long considering how many years they will pay us back 🌱 By the way.. We are expecting several nights under 30 degrees next week, will they need to be covered?
Great lesson!!
Great video. Thanks 👍
9:22 I totally misheard him. I thought he said "Boy is this huge, and I'm white!"
ArishaSmile lol same here
@@xxxsanyeo
You're white... SJW's like you are such morons 🤔
@@azeissler1987 if anything I think a non sjw would say that
Not sure how sjw is relevant anyway
This is a video about asparagus
@@AngelVocal
Aww what a white knight you are. Good for. I bet your neckbeard is impressive
@@azeissler1987 I'm a lady but I mean, sure. Love this neckbeard I own, Big Al. I hope you aren't projecting.
It is amazing hard moving and splitting asparagus crowns is. It is a young mans game for sure. I had one that has been in my garden for 30 - 40 years. A huge and amazingly productive plant but it has got to the point it needed to be split and given more room. Thank God I have a mini excavator because if I had to hand dig it, it would have been a 2 day project. Then, once I had it dug I had to split the crowns. Again a major workout. I pressure washed off the dirt then with 2 garden forks pried apart the crowns and gently (not really) pulled apart the thick jungle of roots. Once the crowns were split I had 9 new plants planted in renovated and manured rows. Not sure how long these guys live but I'm sure they will be happy to be free from the root bound mass they had become over the last 30 years.
I saw a different video about an ancient asparagus plant and they divided it up to thirty crowns. Glad you posted this!
@@hal7ter As a follow up... not one of the separated crowns lived. It is possible the plant had reached old age and was not long for this world anyway. Since then I bought young crowns of an all male variety and they are growing well and will produce for many years to come.
Can we get an update on this particular asparagus transplant?
Just saw this, cool video. Since it is 2017 now, how did the asparagus plant do in the new location?
They are such a mysterious plant to me. I have to clean around mine. Great show, thanks!
Awesome video!!!! Very educational, thanks!!!
Really helpful video Luke, thanks!
That bit that broke off, can it be planted and grown?
I almost expected this monster plant to start running down the beach.
I did not know they grew like that. Thanks for the vid.
Thanks for sharing. Thought you will divide the huge root into three or four before planting.
beautiful
Do you think if you planted the part of the root that broke off it would generate a new plant? Also, great information. I tried to dig up my (ONE) year old asparagus plants and move them because I didn't realize they would get so tall and shade other plants in my garden. And I couldn't believe how deep the roots were. They ended up winning and getting to stay where they were. I planted them in a raised bed (Back to Eden Garden), the base was nothing but rocks. The plants weren't budging, so they got to stay. All is well, they seem happy there. This year the plants are over 6 feet tall. Note, it's best to do a little research on the plants and put them where you want them! :)
that huge piece would have made a wonderful plant! I hated to see him toss it aside, it would have been much better than the little ones in the bed!
Maybe spread out the roots better, with the plant's health in mind, not so much the bed as priority, again it would have been better to move some of the little new ones for proper planting of the ? a century old plant?, omg, and with added sand may have been better
More than likely, yes. I dug up my 5 asparagus plants and I got 1-2 crowns from each one, now giving me 12 asparagus plants total.
No.
Ugh, I made the same mistake - they shade m tomato bed :/
@@mosheyoshi How are they doing?
If there are any sheep or goat owners near you, they will lend you their animals to clean that spot of grape vines. We have two Finn sheep and they LOVE grape vines:)
Luke ~ May I suggest you do a video giving your thoughts on salting your asparagus bed? Or what method to keep weeds down around asparagus. I have a large bed of asparagus out in the middle of a pasture.... and it is a struggle to harvest and compete against the weeds. Looking for some guidance.
OMG. That Asparagus is so impressive. I just transplanted 5 plants to a better location from pots to ground. I will put a good animal fence around it will have very small opening against mice and all. Can't wait until spring & summer. Thanks.
It will be interesting to see if that plant makes it. You left a lot of air pockets beneath the root ball when you covered it up.
my thoughts exactly
it is surviving great!
Yeah I usually keep a bucket of sifted soil or sifted compost when I'm transplanting so it flows between the roots better. Worm castings work as well. I like to lay some in around the roots anyone just to make sure they have plenty of nutrients to get the new growth started.
You can get rid of those grape vines. It involves a plow and a lot of work but I've done it. They try like hell to come back though.
Very helpful vid. I love love asparagus
This year is the first time growing asparagus. I bought seeds. You are very informative thanks. I have yet planted the seedlings in their garden. Should the soil be sandy like yours?
here is a thought, you see that it will grow in sand and near a beach, Imagine growing these on your levees! grow them closer together and the wave action will not take the levee down PLUS you get asparagus! WIN_WIN! The Orientals in California farming the leveed areas did this in the 1800s. Now the levees are weak since this knowledge died out.
Grahhhh! Update please! Lol, what a mighty root system, I'm dying to know how it did in the box garden.
I'd take both crowns, asparagus is lovely
tiny wild grapes make excellent and delicious grape preserves, jams, and jellies. if you structure the growth they will produce good edible fruits. the level of grape flavor coming from the wild grapes is incredible. we intentionally seek them out for a food source.
They are SO good! They're much better after the first frost
- sheri armstrong Agreed. We pick them every late summer/early autumn for wine making, jellies, jams, etc. they are so much more vigorous and resistant than commercial grapes/wines.
Mo Rob I found wild blackberrys at a paintball park and i wamted to eat them but my dad sai i would trust it. So i didnt eat any.
blueberries, blackberries and raspberries all grow wild in the US in various locations. As do grapes and papayas, passion fruit and elderberries, and so on. There are so many fruits and veggies we have that grow naturally in the wild but we are programmed and trained to expect our food to come from stores and markets and not simply outdoors. It is likely that the fruit you find growing wild is much less contaminated than anything you buy at a store. However you do have to be very certain that the fruit you find s in fact what you believe it is. there are "look - a - likes" in nature. Some of which can be toxic. But with minimal effort and reading up, researching, etc you can fairly easily tell the difference.
Mo Rob They looked exactly like blackberries. We grow them in our garden as well.
Just wanted to comment b4 going to check out your harvest. Very educational. Thanks.
i have been told you are supposed to divide the asparagus. I havent done mine but I need to. They have been out there for years. Hope you replanted the other parts of the roots or shared them with someone.
Good information to have. Thank you.
Very interesting. And I like your respect for these plants :-)
I'm curious on what became of this plant.
Wow! what a plant! It's so big you need to give it a name! Really cool video:)
Wow, in South Florida we have some growing wonderfulness - but to have "invasive" wild grapes!
awesome.
I'm remembering foraging and then mom's jelly!
Man! There are people who would drive to MI for those grapes! Wild grapes make the best jelly. Try it sometime. Thanks for the "Tips on the Tips" also!
thank you for sharing!
Impressive!