Growing Asparagus
We consider ourselves experts on asparagus on our farm near Oundle. All of our asparagus plants are planted by hand and we normally plant around 12,000 plants per acre, a lot!
British Asparagus heralds the start of spring and asparagus normally starts to poke through when the night/day average temperature is around 14 deg C. Traditionally, the asparagus season starts on St Georges day, the 23rd April, and finishes on Midsummer’s Eve, the 21st June.
Once the season has commenced it’s all hands on deck, everything is cut by hand. Asparagus grows so fast, you can almost watch in growing. Occasionally, the crop has to be cut twice in one day! Once cut, we wash it, bundle it, weigh and pack it with aim of producing and selling the freshest high quality asparagus we can.
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When the season has finished we let the asparagus plant grow away and it quickly reaches for the sky. Once in fern, the asparagus plant busies its self trying to absorb as mush sunlight as possible, this energy is then stored in the huge root system as carbohydrate to provide yield for the following year.
