The overwhelming majority of vegetables which gardeners love to grow in Greater Columbus are annual plants, which means that they complete their lifecycle in the same season and must be planted each ...

You can’t just pop asparagus crowns, or seedlings, in the ground. Because it is a perennial vegetable, it requires a little planning and a few hours of work. A few weeks ago I naively bought a few six ...

Perennial vegetables are an elite group and are prized for their ability to produce a harvest year after year. Asparagus is one of these valued veggies, and, best of all, it's very easy to grow. Like ...

Home-grown ‘Purple Passion’ asparagus emerging from the ground. It’s a common misconception in the home gardening arena that asparagus is a crop that should never be started from seed. I am not sure ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Asparagus hardly ranks as an exotic edible, but harvesting this imported ...

Asparagus is a long-lived herbaceous perennial that has as much living plant material below ground as above ground. Tender tops can be killed by a freeze, but underneath is a massive network of ...

Q. I would like to grow potatoes this year. Can I use potatoes from the grocery store to do this? -- Wanda, New Windsor A. The preferred method is to purchase certified disease-free seed potatoes from ...

Watch how an asparagus growing from a bare-root to crowns and young plant in this time lapse. The root was planting in a pot with soil and grow lights. It took about 10 days to see 2 crowns shot up ...

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See how fast an asparagus plant was growing from a seed in this time-lapse. The asparagus seed was sown under soil in a 10-inch container. It took about 8 days to sprout and quickly turned into fern ...

Asparagus is a perennial vegetable that can be enjoyed for many years. Plant asparagus crowns in a sunny location with well-drained soil. Don't harvest asparagus the first year, and limit harvesting ...

A few weeks ago I naively bought a few six-packs of beautiful, ferny little asparagus seedling plants, thinking that since local asparagus production is disappearing, given over to out-of-state ...