[metmom]

The asparagus crowns that I ordered from Jung’s arrived in the mail on Saturday. I need to make time this week to stick those in the dirt. I’ve got the spot picked out where I’m going to put them, just gotta get out there and do it.

Prepping the bed properly can be time consuming but it's worth it cause once it's done, it's done.

Give yourself plenty of time to do it.

[Augie]

Thankfully, the hard part of prepping the new asparagus bed is already done. I’m going to put it along the east fence in the new garden patch. The soil there (hauled in from tearing down the old garden) runs 12”-18” above the previously existing grade. I tilled in a generous amount of compost as I was layering in the new soil.

So pretty much all I need to do to set the new crowns is add another 6” or so compost, till that in, place the crowns, then cover it up. Not as easy as it sounds, and I’m sure I’ll be sick of it by the time I’m done, but it will be a whole lot easier than digging a new bed into sod.