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Award-winning asparagus collection

Award-winning asparagus collection

Award-winning asparagus collection

asparagus collection

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This collection offers a mix of award-winning asparagus cultivated varieties, giving you reliable, high-yielding plants with a succession of spring...

1 collection ( 6 crowns)

~~£19.97~~ £15.98 £2.66 each

available to order from winter

2 + 1 Free collections (18 crowns)

~~£39.94~~ £31.95 £1.78 each

available to order from winter

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Plant description

This collection offers a mix of award-winning asparagus cultivated varieties, giving you reliable, high-yielding plants with a succession of spring spears and robust growth for your garden or raised beds. You’ll get a combination that balances early, mid, and late cropping for a continuous harvest.

What's included:

In each collection you will receive 2 crowns of each of the following (6 crowns in total):

asparagus 'Connover's Colossal': Expect strong, reliable growth with thick green spears that show clean purple tips in spring. Asparagus ‘Connover’s Colossal’ forms upright shoots that later develop into tall stems with fine, feathery foliage once harvesting ends. It suits sunny or lightly shaded sites and grows well in open ground or raised beds, especially where soils are on the heavier side. Grows to 1m.
asparagus 'Gijnlim': An award-winning, all-male F1 asparagus cultivated variety with bright green spears and deep purple tips that produces an exceptionally high yield. Grows to 90cm.
asparagus 'Backlim': This all-male variety produces a mid- to late crop of tasty, straight spears, the quality of which only improves as the plant ages. It's a popular choice with commercial growers because it's ideal for producing both green or white asparagus, and its compact foliage, which tends to die back in early autumn, maintains the plants natural vigour. Grows to 75cm.

Plant features

Position

Full sun

Rate of growth

Average

Soil

Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil

Hardiness

Fully hardy

How to care for Award winning asparagus collection:

Your asparagus will arrive as bare-root crowns and should be unpacked and planted as soon as possible. Traditionally Asparagus are planted in spring, but the crowns can be planted at any point from autumn to spring. They need a sunny spot, shelter from strong winds and well-prepared soil that ideally has had lots of manure or compost added in the previous autumn. Good drainage is important too, so if your soil is heavy and wet, it would be advisable to grow them in a raised bed.

Prepare the bed well (ideally well before planting) by removing all the weeds and digging in lots of well-rotted manure or composted organic matter. When planting, dig a trench approximately 30cm (12in) wide and 20cm (8in) deep and work a little more organic matter into the base of the trench. Using the excavated soil, create a 10cm (4in) tall, arched ridge down the length of the trench and sit the crowns on top. Allow 30-45cm (12-18in) between each plant. Spread the roots out to form a star-shape and cover them with the remaining soil, leaving the the tops of the crowns just visible.

Subsequent rows should be at 45cm (18in) intervals with staggered planting. Immediately after planting, water thoroughly and mulch with a generous layer of composted organic matter. During the growing season keep them well fed with a dressing of general purpose fertiliser and make sure the bed stays free of weeds. The first spears will appear soon after planting, but it is important that these are not cut, but allowed to develop into feathery stems throughout the summer. These can be cut back to just above ground level after they have started to die back in autumn.

Before the new spears appear in subsequent years, make a ridge of soil over each row and apply a dressing of general purpose fertiliser. If you can, try to resist harvesting the spears, which appear in the second year too, as the plant should be left to develop a robust crown before you begin cutting the spears in their third year.
If you want to grow white spears, fully mature crowns can be covered with a mound of freely draining soil in the autumn. Then, when the new spears start to emerge in the following spring, you can gently remove the soil and harvest the white spears underneath.

Please note:

This perennial dies back to below ground level each year in autumn, then fresh new growth appears again in spring.

Warning

Humans: Skin allergen; fruits harmful if eaten

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