Supper Tonight

Ok...rather pleased. Tonight we are having very fresh home grown roast chicken and Asparagus that I harvested out of the garden minutes ago! I"m just all pleased because this is my first harvest of the Asparagus crowns I planted 2 years ago.

yes a great feeling! nothing like fresh greens in spring time and roast chicken is always good especially your own

Mmmm I love fresh asparagus

Growing your own food is very rewarding

How was dinner?

I enjoy growing my own veggies and planting a garden each year. Speaking of which, I am hoping to plant before Tuesday.

Has anyone had tried to grow asparagus in containers?

Well...I must admit that dinner was a little disappointing...the chicken was great...but I let some of the asparagus get too big and it was "woody". I don't know that Asparagus grown in containers would make it through the winter...unless you brought the containers in.

Awe, that is too bad, try again, only get younger ones. When I cook asparagus I bend the stalk and where it breaks is what is the tenderest part. The other part, which is more tough can be used, but I like to only cook the most tender part. Asparagus would only do well in a very large pot. Those root crowns are enormous. When we moved up from the coast to the Okanagan, I lost about 100 five gallon pots of perennials I had so carefully dug up, potted and moved. Only a few of them made it through the first winter. Too cold, probably the sudden change and being in pots over winter. Asparagus was included in this. I lost about 20 crowns, sigh....lessons learned. It is OK though, I really don't have room for all the perennials anyways, but yes, plants in pots don't weather well with extreme cold I think. I would not try with asparagus. We get very cold here in winter and we have lots of asparagus farms around. You could grow it inground I am sure where you live. Have a beautiful day, CynthiaM.