Asparagus is an easy to grow early spring vegetable that will continue to provide for many years when cared for correctly. Asparagus beds in good soil can produce for up to 25 years.

It can be grown in any garden where there is a cold or dry season to allow it to go dormant.

It can be cooked in many ways and can be dried, canned, or frozen to be stored for the off-season.

You will want to wait a couple of years after plating to harvest the first crop and in that first year only harvest the larger sprouts and early in the summer let the plants go to seed. This will provide for a much larger harvest the next year.

In that next year, harvest all sprouts until the middle of summer and then let any remaining ones go to seed.

Each year you will find your harvest growing larger as the plants reseed and spread quickly.