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Starting Asparagus Plants

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
April
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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Every farm garden and cvcry villago garden should have an asparagus bed, because there is almost no other vegetable that will give such labundant returns for tlie land and labor required in growing it. Many are detorred irom growing it because of time that niust elapse before it will come into bearing, but more we bclicve, because of the few dollars i-equiredfor the purchase oï the plaats; find mot Beedng any way in whlch to féUrmount thi.s difficulty, they do without it. At the time of makrng my first bed, I loreaw that a few plants would not meet my needs, and yet I did mot care to invest largely. Bo as seed was eheap, I purchased an oiuice of that and sowed it rather thickly in a hot bed in the autumn and by spring had a large quantity of good plante about six inches high and wilh good roots. During the Winter I only kept them warm enough to have them malee a Blow growth, iiot wishiiig them to get length at the expense of the roots. Ia the spring they were transplanted to a bed of rieh axth, and given room enough to make the most ampie root developünent, feo that by the following autumn, One year irom the seed, they M-ere quite good cnough to put in the ipei-ma.uent bed, averaging as large as the two-year voots commonly setured ïrom nurserymen. If I weré goingto a-epeatthe operation, I should toot start the seed before January and Could then have plaats quite large fenough to handle liy the time the gTOTKQd would permit putting them out. I have also growai a great tnany plants directly from the seed iu the open tiround, but do not usuaily get a tiatisfactory root in one year'.s time. I think the extra labor of starting thé seed in the hot-bed i well repaid. as it saves about oöe year.

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Ann Arbor Courier