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Picked a bunch today. Amazing how fast they grow over night. Trimmed and blanched.
Dawglover--I am eating a lot of asparagus...ours is 10 days early...usually it doesn't come up until around the 15th. Asparagus grows 6-8 inches A DAY. After it is picked, it grows approximately 1/4" overnight in the fridge. Tomorrow I am test driving 3 recipes that use asparagus, including roasting it and dressing it with lemon-rosemary butter to go with baked rainbow trout. FWIW, wild and cultivated asparagus are genetically the same. I love asparagus. Since our season started early, we got a bonus--instead of 6 weeks, we will be harvesting asparagus for almost 8 weeks (cut off date is July 1 / 4) so that it can go to seed.
Basically, PF, that's what I have been living on since Sunday...if you don't count the double-smoked bacon.
I don't consider it wild as much as feral asparagus.Dawglover--I am eating a lot of asparagus...ours is 10 days early...usually it doesn't come up until around the 15th. Asparagus grows 6-8 inches A DAY. After it is picked, it grows approximately 1/4" overnight in the fridge. Tomorrow I am test driving 3 recipes that use asparagus, including roasting it and dressing it with lemon-rosemary butter to go with baked rainbow trout. FWIW, wild and cultivated asparagus are genetically the same. I love asparagus. Since our season started early, we got a bonus--instead of 6 weeks, we will be harvesting asparagus for almost 8 weeks (cut off date is July 1 / 4) so that it can go to seed.
Well, a couple of beetles of a type I've never seen before totally decimated my one scrawny asparagus spear. I googled asparagus beetle, and I figure that's what they were.
Common Asparagus Beetles | Garden Gate Magazine
I am all to familiar with those guys. Keep an eye out for the larvae stuck to the sides of the stalks. I would squeeze the stalk and run my hand up the stalk where those egg sacks are. That was all it would to take to stop the eggs from developing. Keep at it or you will have more next year.
Thanks Beth. It's going in the garbage, not the compost. Just have never seen them here before.
Hoping to get more than one spear!
I hate to say this, but I ate enough asparagus today to last me until Saturday.That's an even better menu idea, asparagus with butter and bacon.