The progress on the new building has continued, though on a much slower pace, as other spring chores have taken precedence. The biggest of these was the delivery of 6,500 asparagus crowns, which finally arrived after weeks of rain.
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| Two bundles of crowns, 30-50 crowns in each |
And finally, tucking each crown into its new bed. Luckily for us, this was made ever so much easier by my inventive Dad and his ingenious row-covering device.
Yep, that would be a 3-point bale stabber bracketed to two seat planks from my Grandpa Henderson's old picnic table, pulled by Dad's JD 2020...worked like a dream! We started Sunday afternoon and finished today before noon. A feat only accomplished with some amazing help. Huge thanks to Dad, Mom, Kristin & Uncle Dean for all their hard work, creative thinking, patience & restorative meals!
So now all we have to do is wait two years, and then we hope to have asparagus is abundance!
2 comments:
That is quite the job! Well done. I planted asparagus last year (not anywhere near that much), but it didn't do well considering the rainy weather. I want to try some more, but it's not been a good start to gardening this year either. Hope yours does well. How do you manage weeds in such a large area?
It was quite the job, and thank you!
We can only hope the weather will be kind to our new crop, because that is WAY more than I am happy to irrigate.
Weeds...what weeds? Yeah, well we will do a combination of mowing and mulching. We are researching a good companion/cover crop to hopefully help with the weed suppression...possibly white dutch clover, though I'm a little leery of its aggressive nature.
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