http://gracehatter.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] gracehatter.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] fitfool 2007-04-06 05:28 pm (UTC)

Re: Our asparagus season

It looks exactly as it does in the store. Amazingly, the tips are not dirty at all, mainly because when it pushes through the earth the tips are still very tight (look at white asparagus next time you are at the market, those tips never spread because they are not exposed to the sun). The spears grow on what are called crowns and the number of spears it produces varies year to year, generally they produce 1 or two, but many produce 3-5. It is a very fast growing plant, you can pick in the morning and go back in the late afternoon on a very warm day and they may have grown an inch or so. Right now I am looking at an inch of snow and it is 24 degrees out...very unusual weather for this time in April but because the season shouldn't start for 3-4 weeks it should be ok. I'll post a pic or two when we're full blown into it AND of the Morels.

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