Or, in English, Asparagus! We passed a German restaurant the other day that was advertising "Spragel Zeit!" We felt that it was a perfect omen to plant the starters that Will had ordered for our garden. He planted them yesterday. Each starter clump looks more like an octopus than an asparagus stalk. I will have to look online as to how they will look when coming out of the ground.
We-- and by "we", I do mean Will. Hey, someone has to document the procedure!-- dug several trenches in the side garden and laid them in there, each "head" of the root system facing opposite directions. Will stated that technically he should have placed them further apart. However, he isn't expecting all of them to make it-- especially since they arrived before he left for England. He stored them in a beg of wet sand, as instructed, since he wasn't able to plant them when they arrived. Yesterday, when he went to plant them, several of the roots had mold growing on them; some even fuzzy. We cut the mold out, but know that will cause significant trauma to the starter plants.
Fingers crossed, then, that we will get something out of this. Once the starters were in the trenches, Will covered them up again and watered. Once they get to a specific height, we will start to mound up around each clump. We planted about 20 plants and are expecting about half to come up. That is a fine average for me, since I am not the biggest fan of asparagus. It is a vegetable that begins with a vowel, and we all know how I feel about those...
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