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    ASPARAGUS? YES, IT’S WELL WORTH THE WAIT!

    Jan 26, 2021 5 minutes

    If there is one gourmet crop that I love to grow in the kitchen garden, it has to be asparagus. With its incredible harvesting potential, totally divine taste and ability to crop for up to 20 years, what’s not to love?

    As asparagus is a perennial vegetable, it’s not the quickest to start cropping and can’t be harvested in the first year like annuals such as lettuce. However, once your asparagus bed is up and running, it is easy to maintain and hardly takes any looking after apart from weeding.

    Before deciding to create an asparagus bed there are a few considerations that need to be taken into account, otherwise your efforts could end in disaster rather than success. The main thing to consider when planning to grow asparagus is space as your plants will need a

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