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mark

Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 2191
Location: Leeds

Posted: Mon Apr 26, 10 9:31 pm Post subject: Asparagus
My crop has started now! Hurray!

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Mon Apr 26, 10 9:45 pm Post subject: Re: Asparagus

mark wrote:

My crop has started now! Hurray!

So has ours

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Mon Apr 26, 10 9:46 pm Post subject:
Had our first yesterday. Lovely too

welsh veg grower

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 2030
Location: here today but tomorrow...

Posted: Mon Apr 26, 10 9:49 pm Post subject:
I have one spear hardly a meal but really pleased as I dug it up from our old house and moved it down here and wasn't sure if it had survived

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Mon Apr 26, 10 9:54 pm Post subject:
I must be missing some taste buds. I am always disappointed with asparagus. People rave about it but I can't see why.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Mon Apr 26, 10 9:56 pm Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

I must be missing some taste buds. I am always disappointed with asparagus. People rave about it but I can't see why.

Got to be good asparagus or I'm generally in agreement with you. My own asparagus or, second best, some of the locally grown stuff eaten as fresh as I can get it, is sublime.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Mon Apr 26, 10 10:01 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

Got to be good asparagus or I'm generally in agreement with you. My own asparagus or, second best, some of the locally grown stuff eaten as fresh as I can get it, is sublime.

Oh good it possibly isn't just me then. To be honest I've never had really fresh asparagus maybe I should try.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Mon Apr 26, 10 10:02 pm Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

cab wrote:

Got to be good asparagus or I'm generally in agreement with you. My own asparagus or, second best, some of the locally grown stuff eaten as fresh as I can get it, is sublime.

Oh good it possibly isn't just me then. To be honest I've never had really fresh asparagus maybe I should try.

Might still not be your cup of tea. But old, cold stored asparagus is (in my view) simply bland.

mark

Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 2191
Location: Leeds

Posted: Mon Apr 26, 10 11:10 pm Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

Oh good it possibly isn't just me then. To be honest I've never had really fresh asparagus maybe I should try.

oh that is why asparagus is worth growing - it is one veg that really benefits from being cut and cooked immediately.

i also love the way it suddenly appears - its not the first crop of spring - but is probably the first in the open plot to appear having not stood through the winter like the sprouting, broc , spring cabbages etc.

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 10 12:11 am Post subject:
Nothing here yet x

ksia

Joined: 17 May 2006
Posts: 2320
Location: Mayenne, France

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 10 5:19 am Post subject:
First helping last Sat. And vegplot it has to be cut and cooked nice and fresh. I often just snap off a bit and eat raw when walking past. Yum.

Bulgarianlily

Joined: 01 Jun 2008
Posts: 1667
Location: South West Mountains of Bulgaria

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 10 5:40 am Post subject:
I started seeds off earlier in the year, now have the most delicate little fern shoots in pots. Should I keep them in pots for the first year? If so how big?

welsh veg grower

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 2030
Location: here today but tomorrow...

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 10 7:30 am Post subject:
fresh asparagus and boiled duck egg I want one now

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 10 7:33 am Post subject:

ksia wrote:

I often just snap off a bit and eat raw when walking past. Yum.

Me too. Started snapping yesterday. May cook a few today - what's the best way? Steam 'em for five mins?

ksia

Joined: 17 May 2006
Posts: 2320
Location: Mayenne, France

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 10 11:23 am Post subject:

Mr BlueSky wrote:

ksia wrote:

I often just snap off a bit and eat raw when walking past. Yum.

Me too. Started snapping yesterday. May cook a few today - what's the best way? Steam 'em for five mins?

I go for boil till just tender then serve with butter melting on top.

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