We like asparagus and we only have a little bit that grows. We have a small patch that comes up every year where our black berries are planted. We also have some that grows in our garden as well. We decided that this wasn’t enough to feed our big family, so we were going to find some more, since it takes three years to grow from seed to a size ready to eat.
Asparagus, sometimes called “sparrow grass,” was brought to the Greeks and Romans by the ancient Phoenicians. It is a perennial herb and is a member of the Lily of the Valley family. It is green and grows tall. It can grow up to twelve inches in twenty four hours!
Last fall, we drove along the back roads in our county. Every time we spotted a patch of yellowing ferny plant, we knew that it was wild asparagus.
We stopped, dug a few up, and put them in an old flowerpot. We soon had a lot of asparagus.
We mostly gathered male asparagus that didn’t have berries on them. That way, they wouldn’t spread seedlings everywhere!
We mixed peat moss and sand into the soil before we started planting the vegetable.
After it was all
planted, I was the one who got to water it.
Asparagus is one of the most nutritionally well-balanced vegetables. It is high in folic acid and a good source of potassium, fiber, thiamin, and vitamins A, B6, and C. I hope that our asparagus grows, so we can have a lot of this good vegetable to harvest. Spring is coming and we’ll find out soon!
~Samuel
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