Comment on Aspergers officinalis

SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bunched together or with leaves around them was my assumption, not individually like someone just bought some and stuck them in the ground.

  Didn’t know we harvested them as baby plants.

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  • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh no that’s not even them as babies. That’s like two years in.

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    This is baby asparagus. It takes forever to develop to actual asperagus stage.

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    • blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It takes several years, many seasons, much sun and rain for such a magnificent vegetable to grow to maturity and be ripe for the harvest.

      Unfortunately it tastes like ass, has the texture of twine and makes your piss stink.

      Vile weed.

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      • wabasso@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I just need to know if you’ve given properly sautéed asparagus in olive oil and garlic a chance. If you’re basing this on mom’s boiled mush you need to give it a second chance.

        Also I personally find it funny when I get to piss stinky piss. Like farts for my dick!

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You fucking what?

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      4 years isn’t it? I looked into it back in the 90s, decided hell no. LOL, it was suggested to dig a 4’ deep trench to plant them.

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      • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s probably right. I think they become recognizable as asperagus around 2 years in. We had some, about two years in when were in a mobile home park. Swapped owners so they hired new lawn keepers… who fucking killed them right when they were almost harvestable god I was so mad.

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      • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The greenhouses around me sell matured asparagus roots. Don't have to wait this way.

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      • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They grew wild up and down the ditch next to my dadas house when I was a kid - as weird to see just tons of asparagus every year

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s extremely low maintenance once it establishes though which is nice.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m sorry, I’m still in awe that anyone would hear that asparagus needs two years to for a viable harvest and still think it’s worth doing

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait… How do we know that someone didn’t just buy some and stuck them in the ground to make us think that this is how they grow?

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