I don't often feature cooked food from the allotment but in this case I didn't think to take a photo before cooking it.
Asparagus has been a long standing aspiration.
My first attempt sunk without trace. Foolishly I repeated the error by buying "autumn planted" hands for a second time. From 18 plants I got three that survived their first winter. In a way I was lucky because it was one of each variety. I expected them to be killed by the cold last winter so these pickings are a bonus. My insurance last year was to grow some Connivers Collosal from seeds myself. Sadly these remained miniscule and only 4 have made it through the winter on site. Meanwhile one of the older plants has started producing harvestable shoots, the first home grown asparagus. As a result I am not (yet) abandoning the whole project.
I think the first ones of anything are so special. When I first read the title, I thought Grub (larva), of the beetle superfamily Scarabaeoidea. Joke's on me. Yum to you.
ReplyDeleteYes it was a bit fly. There is also 'grubbing up' where plants are pulled up by the roots, which is maybe what I should have done, given the meagre yield!
DeleteGrin. There is also grubby as in clothes (after gardening?)
DeleteHa Ha! And when it comes to blogging: Grub Street was a London street, noted by Dr Johnson as “much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems”
DeleteI immediately thought of little white grubs not asparagus. I notice Beechgrove grow all their asparagus in a polytunnel but I'm guessing that yours isn't so lucky so you are doing well to get anything at all.
ReplyDeleteAs it happens there is an "asparagus beetle" that specialises on asparagus. Hopefully I will never get the chance to meet it.
DeleteAsparagus is one plant that we have never tried to grow, although we did have a couple of plants green for the fern to use with flowers when that was popular in flower arrangements
ReplyDeleteI agree that the ferns are impressive - later in the year.
DeleteMmm, looks delish. We do love asparagus but have never grown it; unfortunately our allotment site has an impressive amount of asparagus beetles - they look good, but...
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