divaqs's Blog
Edible Landscaping
Jun 6, 2007 | 7:49 AM PST
Tags: Asparagus , Fern
A couple of months ago I wrote about asparagus, in which I mentioned that it is a fern. I’ve mentioned this to other people, which seemed to really surprise them. I think I can understand why, since I believe that in our day it is easy for us city folk to lose touch with where all the food in the grocery store comes from, and the natural order of things.
Here is a picture of some of the asparagus now growing in my yard
As you might be able to see in my less than professional picture, it is a rather nice delicate fern. This year it has reached over 6 feet in height in my yard and has as intended to some degree obscured view of my neighbor’s ugly fence.
Most growth of new shoots happens in the spring time, but it hasn’t stopped completely yet. So, I am still able to occasionally get a couple of asparagus spears from the garden.
I’ve been thinking about using some fishing line to help hold the ferns up in an upright position. On the left side of the picture you can see that some of the ferns are leaning, which can happen, partly due to the density of the asparagus ferns pushing on each other. I guess I didn’t thin them enough in the spring. I hopefully will remember that for next year and will eat more asparagus.
