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Asparagus Update – March 2006

The plan was to get the two 3 gallon pots of asparagus I started from seed last year planted out into the garden this spring. I had a spot picked out at the back edge that would hold about 75 plants just fine. Well as per usual this time of year the ground has been too wet to dig. I checked on the containers this morning and found that a few of the crowns were already sending up spears. Tiny little things but about 5x the size they were last year. So… I separated them into two piles. I ended up with about 65 crowns. The 25-30 largest crowns went into the garden and another 35-40 smaller ones went back into pots, half in a large barrel and the other half back into 3 gallon pots 5-6 per pot. I’ll baby these this year and hopefully they will have some size on them by next spring.

I didn’t get the garden spot as prepared as I had wanted to. It was really still too wet to do a lot of digging. So, I mixed in a bag of manure that I had left into the individual holes I dug for each, and watered them in. I think this fall I am going to go ahead and prepare the bed for next spring to accept the small crowns I am growing out in pots this year.

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Mimosa, Poppies, Blueberries, Asparagus

Feb 6, 2005
Scattered some oriental poppy seeds in flower bed. I couldn’t find the poppy seed i got from the plant swap last summer.

Checked blackberries, aok. The severe cold didn’t get to them. Probably because of the snow cover.

Planted some of Mallie’s Mimosa in a 4″ pot and sat in miss kim lilac barrell and in far end of herb bed.
(6/7/05 something came up but it sure doesn’t look like Mimosa, will check back later)

Cut some 6″ blueberry stems and ‘planted’ in sandy grape barrell in two bunches. planted cuttings about half way down (3″ deep). didn’t strip lower buds, don’t know if that will be a problem. will check them in the spring for rotting.
(6/7/05 at first this looked like it would work. all leafed out and had blooms which were removed. later they died. possibly needed a humidity tent? will try again next year)

Checked rhubarb, trying to emerge.

Apricot aok, no swollen buds yet.

Started soaking some Martha Washington asparagus seed.
(Update: 6/7 I ended up forgetting about these as they were set on the back porch after being wrapped in a moist paper towel and covered with plastic. Sometime in March or early April I found them and they had pretty much all sprouted and started growing and were still moist! They transplanted fine and are spending their first year in a couple of 3 gallon pots. They are about 6″ tall now)