My asparagus will start coming in any day now - ours generally starts a month later than in Germany. In the store, the spears will all be the same thickness. But in one's garden, you get fat ones, medium ones and skinny little ones. I line them up like little soldiers, the fat one goes into the steamer first, followed by the medium ones a minute later, and the skinny ones get barely blanched. Only for asparagus will I get that precious about my cooking! At the end of June, the plot starts to grow into an asparagus forest, five feet tall, and the cats love to lay inside it on hot days. People passing ask me what that plant is. They only know the store asparagus, they have no idea how tall and bushy it gets. And while the flowers are unremarkable, the bees love them!
Well, look what I found on my walk today - a whole field of green asparagus! We‘re at a family confirmation near Heidelberg this weekend and in between lunch and coffee we got out into the sunshine.
We have a tiny little garden and I have been debating getting some asparagus. They need a lot of space though. Perhaps it is one plant the slugs will not clearcut - my attempts at salad and radishes worked only one year. Now the slugs know where we are!
My asparagus will start coming in any day now - ours generally starts a month later than in Germany. In the store, the spears will all be the same thickness. But in one's garden, you get fat ones, medium ones and skinny little ones. I line them up like little soldiers, the fat one goes into the steamer first, followed by the medium ones a minute later, and the skinny ones get barely blanched. Only for asparagus will I get that precious about my cooking! At the end of June, the plot starts to grow into an asparagus forest, five feet tall, and the cats love to lay inside it on hot days. People passing ask me what that plant is. They only know the store asparagus, they have no idea how tall and bushy it gets. And while the flowers are unremarkable, the bees love them!
Well, look what I found on my walk today - a whole field of green asparagus! We‘re at a family confirmation near Heidelberg this weekend and in between lunch and coffee we got out into the sunshine.
Oh - how magical!
We have a tiny little garden and I have been debating getting some asparagus. They need a lot of space though. Perhaps it is one plant the slugs will not clearcut - my attempts at salad and radishes worked only one year. Now the slugs know where we are!