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To: BenLurkin

Awesome. It only takes 2 a 3 years to establish a crop. Hope they don’t get too hungry until then. Mars is for morons. Even Martians don’t want to live there!


3 posted on 11/01/2019 6:34:04 PM PDT by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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4 posted on 11/01/2019 6:37:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Bommer

Awesome. It only takes 2 a 3 years to establish a crop. Hope they don’t get too hungry until then.

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Yeah, asparagus doesn’t make as much sense as a much faster-producing food crop such as corn or beans. On Earth, we call them annuals, vs perennials for plants, such as asparagus, that continue to live and produce season after season after being established. (Not sure how plants on Mars would adapt to whatever growing seasons that planet offers.)

Didn’t Matt Damon’s character in “The Martian” grow potatoes to survive?


11 posted on 11/01/2019 7:04:20 PM PDT by leftcoaster
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“Awesome. It only takes 2 a 3 years to establish a crop”

Yes but it is one of only a couple vegetables that reproduce year after year without replanting. This one can go for 20 years before dying off.


30 posted on 11/02/2019 2:00:10 PM PDT by DAC21 ( and Naflet)
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