This is intriguing...its as if perennials are slowly walking across the earth... The older they are, the "farther they travel." I love to see the parallels in plant and animal behavior. There should be a pixar movie made about the plant world
Where we live, every year in the spring I have to rake up the rocks that popped up from the winter freeze. If I don't, I wind up having to change a couple of mower blades. I will say, however, I have found a couple of very nice arrow-heads!!
James O'Connell I live in Manitoba and we live off the river (you'd never know it with the house density in my area though) And out whole garden is basically clay and rocks... I think we have orchids that must be 50 years old too... the root system is 2 square feet and growing over itself at this point lol... I need to dig it up in fall I think...
Mine does this as well. I think they're coming up from deep within the Earth. I guess the asparagus could always adapt and become hydroponic. I used to do experiments with rock gardens and they always worked as a kid.
I have a battery-operated portable camping shower. What I do when I transplant; I dig around the plant just like in the video, then I spray off the dirt away with collected rain water. I might be wrong, I don't have any education in agriculture or anything, but it seems the less dirt left from the previous area the quicker they rebound and start growing in the new area. My mother showed me that trick like 30 years ago. They used to use watering cans back then, but it's the same idea. Anyone else do that?
My wife and I were finally after 12 years able to buy our 1st home on 1.77 acres. This our 1st year gardening in our new home. I did get in some brussel sprouts and butter crunch lettuce (my favorite for BLT's) fall of 2019. We began farming in 2014 but we rented and owners either didn't like our chickens, or they didn't like our greenhouse, or they didn't like our dairy goats, soon to be our dairy source and our source for making premium compost. The best. I've never seen so many worms. Love your show. I hope though I'm not as good on camera as you to behind the scenes follow in your footsteps and get my wife who is sparkly on camera to be the face for our show one day. You have done an amazing job over the years. We live in the south because we also have autoimmune diseases we are excited to now be able to enjoy organic food and begin a little produce business.
Ok i had a pretty big and deep planter I was going to grow asparagus in. I think i'll shelve that idea now. These things are gonna need to go in the ground. lol
I lived in Florida for many years and saw a lot of wild asparagus. My wife harvested handfuls of it each year and we enjoyed eating it. The stalks were a lot thinner than cultivated asparagus, but tasted just as good. We never had any that were stringy.
Keeper of the Random Pickle some kinds reseed themselves so the bed can last nearly forever as long as they are fed. And some of the hardier varieties of asparagus plants can produce for 30 or even 40 years is properly cared for!
@@sortathesame8701 theoretically, since plants do not age like humans do, perennials could live forever given perfect conditions ( no disease, infinite soil quality and quantity, zero weeds, no pests, perfect weather conditions, and precise moisture/ph conditions.
It is amazing hard moving and splitting asparagus crowns is. It is a young mans game for sure. I had one that has been in my garden for 30 - 40 years. A huge and amazingly productive plant but it has got to the point it needed to be split and given more room. Thank God I have a mini excavator because if I had to hand dig it, it would have been a 2 day project. Then, once I had it dug I had to split the crowns. Again a major workout. I pressure washed off the dirt then with 2 garden forks pried apart the crowns and gently (not really) pulled apart the thick jungle of roots. Once the crowns were split I had 9 new plants planted in renovated and manured rows. Not sure how long these guys live but I'm sure they will be happy to be free from the root bound mass they had become over the last 30 years.
@@hal7ter As a follow up... not one of the separated crowns lived. It is possible the plant had reached old age and was not long for this world anyway. Since then I bought young crowns of an all male variety and they are growing well and will produce for many years to come.
I wish I would have known 5 years ago what I know now. I tried moving my old asparagus roots and I killed them. After a lot of research, I now can move asparagus with ease. These are great tips. :)
This is so helpful. I bought a house and this spring discovered I had asparagus, along with all sorts of other edibles. There are about 25 shoots that I just let go as it was pretty tasteless. The bed is choked with grass, very little open soil, I can see it needs help but didn't know what was going on in the roots. Now I know how to clean out the bed and hopefully fertilize and mulch for a better crop next year. It will be one of my fall projects.
If there are any sheep or goat owners near you, they will lend you their animals to clean that spot of grape vines. We have two Finn sheep and they LOVE grape vines:)
Luke, I love your videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insights! And don't feel bad about breaking a shovel, you are not the only one who has done it. I've broken several in the garden trying to dig up tree roots, etc. May God bless and smile upon you and your family!
It wasn't really thriving though. It was just there. I bet the asparagus for the last few seasons wasn't as good as it could be, and he mentioned that it wasn't growing very many stocks. It will be much happier in the new soil.
I had asparagus at a different location. It got choked out by grass and weeds. I fought it for years because we have really clay soil here in the Pacific NW. Going to plant this year adding lots of sand, compost & manure. Thank you for sharing!
I absolutely love all your videos. This asparagus transplant was so much more than I would thought to get mine out. Wow, did not know it would be so large! Great job you do always.
tiny wild grapes make excellent and delicious grape preserves, jams, and jellies. if you structure the growth they will produce good edible fruits. the level of grape flavor coming from the wild grapes is incredible. we intentionally seek them out for a food source.
- sheri armstrong Agreed. We pick them every late summer/early autumn for wine making, jellies, jams, etc. they are so much more vigorous and resistant than commercial grapes/wines.
blueberries, blackberries and raspberries all grow wild in the US in various locations. As do grapes and papayas, passion fruit and elderberries, and so on. There are so many fruits and veggies we have that grow naturally in the wild but we are programmed and trained to expect our food to come from stores and markets and not simply outdoors. It is likely that the fruit you find growing wild is much less contaminated than anything you buy at a store. However you do have to be very certain that the fruit you find s in fact what you believe it is. there are "look - a - likes" in nature. Some of which can be toxic. But with minimal effort and reading up, researching, etc you can fairly easily tell the difference.
I remember reading a very old gardening book when I was young. They had an interesting chapter on Asparagus. The method they advised was to dig a trench about three feet deep. The soil from the trench was the mixed with lots of compost and aged manure before it was put back in. Basically this gave you a layer of topsoil three feet deep. I guess the idea was that your Asparagus was going to remain in that same spot undisturbed (except for top dressing) for as much as fifty years or more, so you wanted to give the best soil bed possible.
I’m gonna go searching your channel for updates. I hope I find one! I’m actually stoked to see your still/ AND SO ACTIVE. glad I found a new gardening Channel to get involved in!
Awesome. I never thought about growing asparagus before but I can sure wolf some down. Lol. Enjoyed the video, Luke. Whoever is holding the camera is doing an amazing job.
What about the tail end of the root that broke off? Did you plant it? Did it grow? (Would it normally grow if you tried to divide the plant like that?)
Impressive! 🌱 I started some from seeds last year and they are already sending their first real shoots! They are at least a foot tall. I know we still can't touch them , ideally not till the year after next. They seen to do very well here so I might make a very large area for them so we can sell our surplus, or can it, or both. People comment on how patient I am, but I am watering the garden anyway and for us, the few years of nurturing them will last us the rest of our lives as we are 55+. (When we are older the years seem to go by much faster.) This winter seems to have sped by faster than any I can remember! Waiting another 2 years till we can harvest our asparagus really isn't very long considering how many years they will pay us back 🌱 By the way.. We are expecting several nights under 30 degrees next week, will they need to be covered?
I can’t believe the nasty comments here! It seems like people everywhere are just looking for anyone to be the brunt of their anger and hate. I think it was fascinating to see this massive root system and learn how these plants age and grow! I’m starting my own asparagus garden this year and all the info helps a lot! Thanks, Luke!
Just found this one. Great video. When I was young, we lived on a US Government Ordinance Plant. Your fencing brought back wonderful memories of how excited I would get when the corp started putting up snow fences. Ours were bright red and were made very similar to yours.
Yeah I usually keep a bucket of sifted soil or sifted compost when I'm transplanting so it flows between the roots better. Worm castings work as well. I like to lay some in around the roots anyone just to make sure they have plenty of nutrients to get the new growth started.
i have been told you are supposed to divide the asparagus. I havent done mine but I need to. They have been out there for years. Hope you replanted the other parts of the roots or shared them with someone.
if u want to get rid of the grape vine wait till buds and brush enzyme blocker on leaves and stem. large stems pound in copper nails or wrap in copper wire. the copper will kill the vines
Do you think if you planted the part of the root that broke off it would generate a new plant? Also, great information. I tried to dig up my (ONE) year old asparagus plants and move them because I didn't realize they would get so tall and shade other plants in my garden. And I couldn't believe how deep the roots were. They ended up winning and getting to stay where they were. I planted them in a raised bed (Back to Eden Garden), the base was nothing but rocks. The plants weren't budging, so they got to stay. All is well, they seem happy there. This year the plants are over 6 feet tall. Note, it's best to do a little research on the plants and put them where you want them! :)
that huge piece would have made a wonderful plant! I hated to see him toss it aside, it would have been much better than the little ones in the bed! Maybe spread out the roots better, with the plant's health in mind, not so much the bed as priority, again it would have been better to move some of the little new ones for proper planting of the ? a century old plant?, omg, and with added sand may have been better
i found out what asparagus was last year (they're not really promoted by grocery stores so know one knows what they are). Then last month my friend found some 'natural' asparagus growing on my piece of recreational land. They weren't bad! (edible-wise), but boy they sure get hard quick if you don't pick 'em. Seems like a really long wait for a really short season, plus like corn, only 1/stalk! Oh well, my dozen or-so naturals now have hundreds of tiny seeds on them, maybe they'll grow more next year.
I live in the country, and under power lines there is a lot of wild asparagus. Birds eat the seeds and drop them while sitting on the lines. Early spring you can see people in the ditches picking.
Thanks Luke! I will do this if we ever move away. This year I started asparagus from seed & will want to take them with me if we ever change locations.
Can we get a follow-up on how this plant is doing. It amazes me as to why you wouldn't just let this plant finish out it's life where it was, with a nice view of the beach and it's "cousins"...not to mention, was this a public beach and public plant? Pretty sure it would have won the battle against the grape vines/routes.
here is a thought, you see that it will grow in sand and near a beach, Imagine growing these on your levees! grow them closer together and the wave action will not take the levee down PLUS you get asparagus! WIN_WIN! The Orientals in California farming the leveed areas did this in the 1800s. Now the levees are weak since this knowledge died out.
I'm not sure where you're located but if you're in a Southern state, the wild grapes may be Muscadine, also known as Bullace. A little research and you'll find out just how healthy those grapes are compared to all others. They have 40 pairs of chromosones compared to 38 from all other grapes world-wide. Muscadine is not 'sour' but, like any grape, they have their own unique flavor.
OMG. That Asparagus is so impressive. I just transplanted 5 plants to a better location from pots to ground. I will put a good animal fence around it will have very small opening against mice and all. Can't wait until spring & summer. Thanks.
I had a 20 year old asparagus bed that was only producing in certain spots. I thought it was because some of the crowns had died but I knew some were strong so decided after watching this to dig the bed up. Was I surprized to find the reason for poor production was the roots were intertwined and choking each other out. I had enough large crowns to make a raised bed 3 times the size of the initial bed.
Love the videos, thank you...I have a small city lot....and half of the front yard are wood munched. Flower beds.where I plant my tomatoes, peppers, eggplant...so far so good...added asparagus 3 years ago 5of 10 originals still going with no effort on my part...I will be adding fertilizer as you Recommend...maybe it will help them survive better here in northern Ohio. Again, thanks!
I think we need to do this to our asparagus. We’ve had raspberries vines that encroached on our asparagus patch cutting off our yield. We dug up our raspberries 2 years ago and moved them but obviously didn’t kill them all off entirely. It has become a nightmare because the vines have traveled into my rhubarb patch now affecting the yield there too. Thanks for the tips Luke. It might be too late to transplant our asparagus this spring but hopefully thus fall we will get them dig up and moved.
Luke ~ May I suggest you do a video giving your thoughts on salting your asparagus bed? Or what method to keep weeds down around asparagus. I have a large bed of asparagus out in the middle of a pasture.... and it is a struggle to harvest and compete against the weeds. Looking for some guidance.
So glad I found this video although I think I just massacred the roots a transplant! Wasn’t as gentle as you!! Question, can you divide a crown? You said asparagus grows like orchids. Thanks.
You guys should do a 1 year update on the asparagus, I'm invested now
my thoughts excactly!
How are they doing in their new location, Luke?
Please do an update on it!
Sarah Weiler eventually its dead 💀 LOL
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This is intriguing...its as if perennials are slowly walking across the earth... The older they are, the "farther they travel." I love to see the parallels in plant and animal behavior. There should be a pixar movie made about the plant world
the leaves from those wild grapes will really help give your pickles crunch. two washed leaves per pint.
Don't be embarrassed about snapping your shovel Luke, if you've never snapped a shovel, you aren't digging hard enough lol
I'm only embarrassed by the number of snapped shovels helping to clutter up my garage!
I go through 1 or 2 a year. I started buying metal shovels and I still broke 1 of them.
If only digging were that easy in my soil. I think it breeds rocks.
Where we live, every year in the spring I have to rake up the rocks that popped up from the winter freeze. If I don't, I wind up having to change a couple of mower blades. I will say, however, I have found a couple of very nice arrow-heads!!
James O'Connell I live in Manitoba and we live off the river (you'd never know it with the house density in my area though) And out whole garden is basically clay and rocks... I think we have orchids that must be 50 years old too... the root system is 2 square feet and growing over itself at this point lol... I need to dig it up in fall I think...
My house/garden is built on an old brick foundry. My tiller was not happy when i first cut my garden lol
you plant asparagus in sand. thats not naturally occurring soil.
Mine does this as well. I think they're coming up from deep within the Earth. I guess the asparagus could always adapt and become hydroponic. I used to do experiments with rock gardens and they always worked as a kid.
I have a battery-operated portable camping shower. What I do when I transplant; I dig around the plant just like in the video, then I spray off the dirt away with collected rain water. I might be wrong, I don't have any education in agriculture or anything, but it seems the less dirt left from the previous area the quicker they rebound and start growing in the new area. My mother showed me that trick like 30 years ago. They used to use watering cans back then, but it's the same idea. Anyone else do that?
12:31 Today you found out that hockey pucks indeed do not grow.
+Aiden .C haha, I was wondering what that was.
+Aiden .C LOL
Lol
A 'snake' firework though, kind of a growing hockey puck in it's own way.
LMAO
Wow, 40 year old asparagus. Very cool. Thanks
+Eros Thanks for watching!
My wife and I were finally after 12 years able to buy our 1st home on 1.77 acres. This our 1st year gardening in our new home. I did get in some brussel sprouts and butter crunch lettuce (my favorite for BLT's) fall of 2019. We began farming in 2014 but we rented and owners either didn't like our chickens, or they didn't like our greenhouse, or they didn't like our dairy goats, soon to be our dairy source and our source for making premium compost. The best. I've never seen so many worms. Love your show. I hope though I'm not as good on camera as you to behind the scenes follow in your footsteps and get my wife who is sparkly on camera to be the face for our show one day. You have done an amazing job over the years. We live in the south because we also have autoimmune diseases we are excited to now be able to enjoy organic food and begin a little produce business.
Ok i had a pretty big and deep planter I was going to grow asparagus in. I think i'll shelve that idea now. These things are gonna need to go in the ground. lol
Love homegrown asparagus. We have a bed that's 30+ years old :)
You made this video back in 2016, how is the transplant doing 4 years later? I would love to see it!!!!
It's an Ayurvedic medicine in India..called Sata-mool(100 roots)..its root is common in India
HOLY MOLY!!! THATS A CRAZY ROOT.
BLESSINGS, julie
Wow, that's one hard working man!
Dude. Exciting???? You got my vote. Well done
This lady my daughter rents from has an asparagus plant that's one hundred years old, WOW, I could not imagine the roots from that!!!
oh man... I can't imagine!
I lived in Florida for many years and saw a lot of wild asparagus. My wife harvested handfuls of it each year and we enjoyed eating it. The stalks were a lot thinner than cultivated asparagus, but tasted just as good. We never had any that were stringy.
There are asparagus beds in England more than 300 years old ... !!
They only grow to 20 yrs
@@JL-xj4rj he said asparagus BED not asparagus
Keeper of the Random Pickle some kinds reseed themselves so the bed can last nearly forever as long as they are fed. And some of the hardier varieties of asparagus plants can produce for 30 or even 40 years is properly cared for!
@@sortathesame8701 theoretically, since plants do not age like humans do, perennials could live forever given perfect conditions ( no disease, infinite soil quality and quantity, zero weeds, no pests, perfect weather conditions, and precise moisture/ph conditions.
@@sortathesame8701 is that based on science? Got a sauce?
monster asparagus!
Dude, you are the man. Thanks so much for putting this out there. Just trying to better manage a asparagus that I found on my property!
Wow, I never knew they could get that big. One of my goals is to get an asparagus bed going. Very good that I saw that. Thank you!
+Mark Oliver ditto, planted a bit at the church, now need to find a spot at home. I've got stuff everywhere and am running out of room..lol
Mark Oliv
I did.
“Wow, I never knew they could get that big.” That’s what she said
Looks like an Alien. I think Sci Fi writers got their inspiration from nature lol
It is amazing hard moving and splitting asparagus crowns is. It is a young mans game for sure. I had one that has been in my garden for 30 - 40 years. A huge and amazingly productive plant but it has got to the point it needed to be split and given more room. Thank God I have a mini excavator because if I had to hand dig it, it would have been a 2 day project. Then, once I had it dug I had to split the crowns. Again a major workout. I pressure washed off the dirt then with 2 garden forks pried apart the crowns and gently (not really) pulled apart the thick jungle of roots. Once the crowns were split I had 9 new plants planted in renovated and manured rows. Not sure how long these guys live but I'm sure they will be happy to be free from the root bound mass they had become over the last 30 years.
I saw a different video about an ancient asparagus plant and they divided it up to thirty crowns. Glad you posted this!
@@hal7ter As a follow up... not one of the separated crowns lived. It is possible the plant had reached old age and was not long for this world anyway. Since then I bought young crowns of an all male variety and they are growing well and will produce for many years to come.
I wish I would have known 5 years ago what I know now. I tried moving my old asparagus roots and I killed them. After a lot of research, I now can move asparagus with ease. These are great tips. :)
It looks like a face hugger. Lock the doors.
+SleestaksRule lol
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This is so helpful. I bought a house and this spring discovered I had asparagus, along with all sorts of other edibles. There are about 25 shoots that I just let go as it was pretty tasteless. The bed is choked with grass, very little open soil, I can see it needs help but didn't know what was going on in the roots. Now I know how to clean out the bed and hopefully fertilize and mulch for a better crop next year. It will be one of my fall projects.
Wow that is an amazing plant, and information. Glad to hear it will get many more years of care.
If there are any sheep or goat owners near you, they will lend you their animals to clean that spot of grape vines. We have two Finn sheep and they LOVE grape vines:)
I enjoyed watching you dig the asparagus root out, but I am certain I will not enjoy doing it myself :-)
you can dig me up anytime
Thomas Wharton What does that even mean
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Luke, I love your videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insights! And don't feel bad about breaking a shovel, you are not the only one who has done it. I've broken several in the garden trying to dig up tree roots, etc. May God bless and smile upon you and your family!
I wouldve put some sand in it's new spot since it was so used to sand before..and thrived in it
Val Cronin I agree
Val Cronin it's not thriving...
because of the grape vines
she meant take so0me if the sand with since the root system was growing well in the sand...
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It wasn't really thriving though. It was just there. I bet the asparagus for the last few seasons wasn't as good as it could be, and he mentioned that it wasn't growing very many stocks. It will be much happier in the new soil.
I had asparagus at a different location. It got choked out by grass and weeds. I fought it for years because we have really clay soil here in the Pacific NW. Going to plant this year adding lots of sand, compost & manure.
Thank you for sharing!
I absolutely love all your videos. This asparagus transplant was so much more than I would thought to get mine out. Wow, did not know
it would be so large! Great job you do always.
Holy moly that's huge Luke! That will be wonderful up in your own garden. Color me Amazed!
I'd like to see a grown artichoke root.
rescue more of those asparagus and give them to people to save!
Thanks for sharing. I do a little gardening my self too and I enjoy doing it every year .💚
Can you look off all those vines and make baskets? I've often wondered about that.
tiny wild grapes make excellent and delicious grape preserves, jams, and jellies. if you structure the growth they will produce good edible fruits. the level of grape flavor coming from the wild grapes is incredible. we intentionally seek them out for a food source.
They are SO good! They're much better after the first frost
- sheri armstrong Agreed. We pick them every late summer/early autumn for wine making, jellies, jams, etc. they are so much more vigorous and resistant than commercial grapes/wines.
Mo Rob I found wild blackberrys at a paintball park and i wamted to eat them but my dad sai i would trust it. So i didnt eat any.
blueberries, blackberries and raspberries all grow wild in the US in various locations. As do grapes and papayas, passion fruit and elderberries, and so on. There are so many fruits and veggies we have that grow naturally in the wild but we are programmed and trained to expect our food to come from stores and markets and not simply outdoors. It is likely that the fruit you find growing wild is much less contaminated than anything you buy at a store. However you do have to be very certain that the fruit you find s in fact what you believe it is. there are "look - a - likes" in nature. Some of which can be toxic. But with minimal effort and reading up, researching, etc you can fairly easily tell the difference.
Mo Rob They looked exactly like blackberries. We grow them in our garden as well.
I'd take both crowns, asparagus is lovely
That was helpful thanks. It made me think can you divide old plants to make more like older clumps of strawberries. You can.
I remember reading a very old gardening book when I was young. They had an interesting chapter on Asparagus. The method they advised was to dig a trench about three feet deep. The soil from the trench was the mixed with lots of compost and aged manure before it was put back in. Basically this gave you a layer of topsoil three feet deep. I guess the idea was that your Asparagus was going to remain in that same spot undisturbed (except for top dressing) for as much as fifty years or more, so you wanted to give the best soil bed possible.
I’m gonna go searching your channel for updates. I hope I find one! I’m actually stoked to see your still/ AND SO ACTIVE. glad I found a new gardening Channel to get involved in!
love a guy who loves plants as much as he does 🕶💘
Awesome. I never thought about growing asparagus before but I can sure wolf some down. Lol. Enjoyed the video, Luke. Whoever is holding the camera is doing an amazing job.
What about the tail end of the root that broke off? Did you plant it? Did it grow? (Would it normally grow if you tried to divide the plant like that?)
It is gonna keep growing but slower
I almost expected this monster plant to start running down the beach.
I did not know they grew like that. Thanks for the vid.
Oh my goodness, that thing is huge!
Can we get an update on this particular asparagus transplant?
Impressive! 🌱 I started some from seeds last year and they are already sending their first real shoots! They are at least a foot tall. I know we still can't touch them , ideally not till the year after next. They seen to do very well here so I might make a very large area for them so we can sell our surplus, or can it, or both. People comment on how patient I am, but I am watering the garden anyway and for us, the few years of nurturing them will last us the rest of our lives as we are 55+. (When we are older the years seem to go by much faster.) This winter seems to have sped by faster than any I can remember! Waiting another 2 years till we can harvest our asparagus really isn't very long considering how many years they will pay us back 🌱 By the way.. We are expecting several nights under 30 degrees next week, will they need to be covered?
I can’t believe the nasty comments here! It seems like people everywhere are just looking for anyone to be the brunt of their anger and hate. I think it was fascinating to see this massive root system and learn how these plants age and grow! I’m starting my own asparagus garden this year and all the info helps a lot! Thanks, Luke!
Just found this one. Great video. When I was young, we lived on a US Government Ordinance Plant. Your fencing brought back wonderful memories of how excited I would get when the corp started putting up snow fences. Ours were bright red and were made very similar to yours.
Beautiful roots. Nice
Woah massive roots! You just about need one of those hydraulic tree excavators if you had a bunch to move. Amazing plants.
Wow, in South Florida we have some growing wonderfulness - but to have "invasive" wild grapes!
awesome.
I'm remembering foraging and then mom's jelly!
Wow! what a plant! It's so big you need to give it a name! Really cool video:)
Great video. Thank you.
It will be interesting to see if that plant makes it. You left a lot of air pockets beneath the root ball when you covered it up.
my thoughts exactly
it is surviving great!
Yeah I usually keep a bucket of sifted soil or sifted compost when I'm transplanting so it flows between the roots better. Worm castings work as well. I like to lay some in around the roots anyone just to make sure they have plenty of nutrients to get the new growth started.
i have been told you are supposed to divide the asparagus. I havent done mine but I need to. They have been out there for years. Hope you replanted the other parts of the roots or shared them with someone.
That was disappointing... I thought there was a body down there...:) just kidding!! Thanks for the video and I LOVE asparagus.....
The dislikes on this video are from the aggressive vines that were choking out the asparagus.
I'm curious on what became of this plant.
Wow beautiful !!
So how is Asper doing? (I named your asparagus, by the way).
😅
if u want to get rid of the grape vine wait till buds and brush enzyme blocker on leaves and stem. large stems pound in copper nails or wrap in copper wire. the copper will kill the vines
That looked like work. Lol. My parents put in an asparagus bed when I was in my early teens and it is still going quite well and I am now 58.
It was indeed a TON of work. I can't imagine how big those roots must be.
Yeah I know.
Those grapes are called Mustang grapes, around here, they are bitter , but they make a great wine.
I'm gonna call asparagus dinosaur grass now. ;D
You can get rid of those grape vines. It involves a plow and a lot of work but I've done it. They try like hell to come back though.
Great lesson!!
Do you think if you planted the part of the root that broke off it would generate a new plant? Also, great information. I tried to dig up my (ONE) year old asparagus plants and move them because I didn't realize they would get so tall and shade other plants in my garden. And I couldn't believe how deep the roots were. They ended up winning and getting to stay where they were. I planted them in a raised bed (Back to Eden Garden), the base was nothing but rocks. The plants weren't budging, so they got to stay. All is well, they seem happy there. This year the plants are over 6 feet tall. Note, it's best to do a little research on the plants and put them where you want them! :)
that huge piece would have made a wonderful plant! I hated to see him toss it aside, it would have been much better than the little ones in the bed!
Maybe spread out the roots better, with the plant's health in mind, not so much the bed as priority, again it would have been better to move some of the little new ones for proper planting of the ? a century old plant?, omg, and with added sand may have been better
More than likely, yes. I dug up my 5 asparagus plants and I got 1-2 crowns from each one, now giving me 12 asparagus plants total.
No.
Ugh, I made the same mistake - they shade m tomato bed :/
@@mosheyoshi How are they doing?
Informative video Luke, thank you.
Great video. Thanks 👍
Interesting!! So another words relocate when sleepin!!!
They are such a mysterious plant to me. I have to clean around mine. Great show, thanks!
i found out what asparagus was last year (they're not really promoted by grocery stores so know one knows what they are). Then last month my friend found some 'natural' asparagus growing on my piece of recreational land. They weren't bad! (edible-wise), but boy they sure get hard quick if you don't pick 'em. Seems like a really long wait for a really short season, plus like corn, only 1/stalk! Oh well, my dozen or-so naturals now have hundreds of tiny seeds on them, maybe they'll grow more next year.
I live in the country, and under power lines there is a lot of wild asparagus. Birds eat the seeds and drop them while sitting on the lines. Early spring you can see people in the ditches picking.
Love your video Luke...shared to Pinterest and Facebook...share the wealth of gardening...
Make the world a better place..!
God bless
Susan
My mother grew everything organic and would always fill the hole with water before putting the plant in...to give it a good start.
That bit that broke off, can it be planted and grown?
Thanks Luke! I will do this if we ever move away. This year I started asparagus from seed & will want to take them with me if we ever change locations.
Can we get a follow-up on how this plant is doing. It amazes me as to why you wouldn't just let this plant finish out it's life where it was, with a nice view of the beach and it's "cousins"...not to mention, was this a public beach and public plant? Pretty sure it would have won the battle against the grape vines/routes.
here is a thought, you see that it will grow in sand and near a beach, Imagine growing these on your levees! grow them closer together and the wave action will not take the levee down PLUS you get asparagus! WIN_WIN! The Orientals in California farming the leveed areas did this in the 1800s. Now the levees are weak since this knowledge died out.
I'm not sure where you're located but if you're in a Southern state, the wild grapes may be Muscadine, also known as Bullace. A little research and you'll find out just how healthy those grapes are compared to all others. They have 40 pairs of chromosones compared to 38 from all other grapes world-wide. Muscadine is not 'sour' but, like any grape, they have their own unique flavor.
I like to use a spade fork to loosen roots out of the ground with little damage.
very good thanks.
OMG. That Asparagus is so impressive. I just transplanted 5 plants to a better location from pots to ground. I will put a good animal fence around it will have very small opening against mice and all. Can't wait until spring & summer. Thanks.
I had a 20 year old asparagus bed that was only producing in certain spots. I thought it was because some of the crowns had died but I knew some were strong so decided after watching this to dig the bed up. Was I surprized to find the reason for poor production was the roots were intertwined and choking each other out. I had enough large crowns to make a raised bed 3 times the size of the initial bed.
9:22 I totally misheard him. I thought he said "Boy is this huge, and I'm white!"
ArishaSmile lol same here
@@xxxsanyeo
You're white... SJW's like you are such morons 🤔
@@azeissler1987 if anything I think a non sjw would say that
Not sure how sjw is relevant anyway
This is a video about asparagus
@@AngelVocal
Aww what a white knight you are. Good for. I bet your neckbeard is impressive
@@azeissler1987 I'm a lady but I mean, sure. Love this neckbeard I own, Big Al. I hope you aren't projecting.
Wow... who would have thought these plants are so strong? I sure had no idea!
Love the videos, thank you...I have a small city lot....and half of the front yard are wood munched. Flower beds.where I plant my tomatoes, peppers, eggplant...so far so good...added asparagus 3 years ago 5of 10 originals still going with no effort on my part...I will be adding fertilizer as you Recommend...maybe it will help them survive better here in northern Ohio. Again, thanks!
a whole bunch of roots... I never would have guessed.
I think we need to do this to our asparagus. We’ve had raspberries vines that encroached on our asparagus patch cutting off our yield. We dug up our raspberries 2 years ago and moved them but obviously didn’t kill them all off entirely. It has become a nightmare because the vines have traveled into my rhubarb patch now affecting the yield there too. Thanks for the tips Luke. It might be too late to transplant our asparagus this spring but hopefully thus fall we will get them dig up and moved.
That is an awesome video on asparagus !! Thank you !
Luke ~ May I suggest you do a video giving your thoughts on salting your asparagus bed? Or what method to keep weeds down around asparagus. I have a large bed of asparagus out in the middle of a pasture.... and it is a struggle to harvest and compete against the weeds. Looking for some guidance.
So glad I found this video although I think I just massacred the roots a transplant! Wasn’t as gentle as you!! Question, can you divide a crown? You said asparagus grows like orchids. Thanks.
I wanted to shout out!!!! My orange rosalini's are growing!! Can't wait to transplant them. Thank you so much.
So proud of myself for watching this through ... I have an IRRATIONAL fear of roots, they just creep me out.. But wow
@MIGardener planted purple asparagus a couple of months ago and I have purple asparagus shoots pop up
Zone 7b warmer than usual
7:14 Damn he had to bust out the Quill Pen to describe his disdain lol