| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| cab |
Asparagus!First local asparagus on the market stalls today. Also some 'imported', from the Wye Valley. All of it looked and smelled in tip-top condition. |
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| tahir |
Thanks for that Cab, will have to send the missus hunting | ||||
| sean |
Have you not got an asparagus bed, or two yet? Slacker. | ||||
| tahir |
Nope, it was on the cards this year but ran out of time and money | ||||
| sean |
Pah. Shan't be visiting you then.
Who has got an asparagus bed? |
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| cab |
I have. A few plants in the garden, anyway. Going to be feasting on home grown this evening 
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| judith |
I have, but you don't like Wales. |
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| sean |
Well that's a fat lot of help. I should have been more specific and asked who within striking distance of my house has an asparagus bed and wants help eating it. | ||||
| sean |
I don't mind Wales in small helpings. |
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| alison |
Fortunately I haven't! 
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| Simon |
Just expanded mine by a further 20 crowns. Should have it in abundance in another couple of years. Well worth the effort IMO. |
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| Chez |
I have seedlings just coming up in the greenhouse - only another three years to wait .
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| Treacodactyl |
We also have a small asparagus bed, grown from seed a few years back and it should crop well this year. Home grown is much better than any shop stuff and you can even eat it while it's still growing on the plant...
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| mrutty |
I have some of that for sell now that I've finally moved and yes I'm packing your fruit bushes at last and they will go out on Monday as long as Becki goes to the post office. |
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| tigger |
http://www.italianmade.com/foods/subcat25014.cfm
Virtually the whole of our village is an asparagus bed
Bit too far away though. |
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| wellington womble |
I now have visions of you grazing your asparagus bed! 
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| tahir |
Don't rush mate  Mind you still ain't sent your cheque
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| tahir |
Blinking good web site Tigger |
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| Vic |
Tigger, I've bookmarked that website - really useful (especially as I'm off to Bologna next week, and then Liguria). Already doing a bit of meal planning... | ||||
| tigger |
picked a good big bunch of wild asparagus with my middle daughter yesterday, in the woods at the coast. She is, unfortunately one of those mini-foragers who have no sense of danger "I CAN'T leave it there, it's much better than the others we've got, and I can reach it if I throw myself into the bramble bushes!" yes, that's why it's still there and no-one else has picked it!
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| Magicbeans |
We bought asparagus seeds and a couple of crowns - ooo back in 2005/2006 - we knew we were moving so planted these in window boxes - so they could travel with us and mature along the way....
Now we have a garden and I ought to plant them out - but well one is about 3ft tall (should reach the Giants Castle soon...) so not sure if I should wait now until they stop growing or to go for it...... |
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| Mary-Jane |
We've got an asparagus bed...just. It's just been built and filled with earth...errrm, and that's about it.
Any suggestions as to which breed of asparagus crown we should try? |
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| JB |
I have aparagus seeds just germinating now but no idea of where to plant them. I'm not sure they'll go in the new garden and have no idea if in the new place I'll be able to find a free allotment (oh well perhaps I can find a small field to rent!) | ||||
| Treacodactyl |
First shoots are just appearing in our bed, give it a couple of days and I'll be out grazing.
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| doctoral |
... just eaten my first spear from the garden - nothing else coming yet, but it tasted good chopped up with some purple sprouting ... | ||||
| wellington womble |
Had a super meal yesterday of dexter steak, jersey royals, baby carrots, PSB and asparagus, with lots of melted butter. Pity I didn't grow any of it, but it did all come from the farmers market, so it was all local and pretty fresh. Added to a trek up a hill and picnic of local pork products (and a imported bottle of wine  or two ) it was a pretty fine day, foodwise. Might try hollandiase next time too.
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