How Do You Prepare Asparagus Plants For The Winter?
Asparagus is a perfect crop for the home gardener. It is a perennial, which means your asparagus bed will provide you with spring treats for many years to come, with almost no effort. While others are paying premium prices for this gourmet vegetable, you will be harvesting your own every day for six to eight weeks. Blanch and freeze the leftovers and you can enjoy these spears throughout the year. Start planning for winter the previous spring. Harvest your asparagus as usual, but make sure you leave two or three spears growing throughout the harvest season. Those spears will sprout ferns that will help to harvest sunlight, which will extend your asparagus season. This, in turn, will strengthen your bed and make it more resistant to winter cold. Stop harvesting when your spears get to pencil-thin size. Leave those spears to grow ferns that capture sunlight and feed your bed after your harvest. They will furnish energy to the bed to strengthen your plants for the coming winter. Cut your
