Asparagus?

[oneshot]

I covered my Asparagus last Fall and it just don’t seem to doing well. 
 

Should I have not covered it?

Strawberries are doing fine.

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[MOPanfisher]

I have never covered my asparagus bed.  Heck I just leave it until March and then mow it down to the ground and salt the crap out of it to kill back the grass.  I have some very salt tolerant fescue clumps by now.  I give it a light fertilizer dose in fall an again in spring but that's again but it.  Cooler weather seems to slow it down and the bigger ones, jersey giant I think are always again but little later than the old Martha Washington stuff that was always there.  Hoping to get and plant more of the big ones.

I quit mulching my strawberries several years ago, they get whatever leaves fall onto them over fall and that's it.  Come spring I blow and take them ckean, give them a shot of fertilizer and water if needed.  Past year I dug them all up, topped off the raised bed with good black dirt and replanted, had to water them pretty regular.  This sprint they lop great, if it gets too dry I sit there in a chair and water them.  I may lose out on most of my garden this year but by dang it I have too much work in these strawberries and am NOT gonna let them go.  Even pull a few weds out so they are clean except for a foot or so in the middle that I can only get by crawling into the bed, which I can only do if wife isn't around.  These around re old school berries, they don't store or ship well but flavor wise they are awesome.  Nothing I like better than to see a couple little kids up there picking and eating ripe strawberries with juice all over their faces and hands.  Of course strawberry jam and fresh berries for supper and good too.  Checard my Thornley blackberries out yesterday, they are looking good, even spreading out where I dug and put the ends of some of the big canes into the ground.  When I die someone is gonna have a heck of a place with apples, pears, peaches, cherries, blackberries and strawberries, but until then I am gonna enjoy them.

[Dutch]

I fertilize mine as soon as I quit picking it.  When the ferns turn brow I cut them off.  I got 18 spears 3 days ago and 32 yesterday.

[BilletHead]

                  Don't have a domestic patch. The wild patches I tend to check nothing up yet.

[ness]

I had a little patch in my back yard. Tore it out a couple years ago because I was trying to reduce the amount of maintenance to do around here for me, or whoever bought this place if I sold. Well we're gonna be here a while and I really miss having it. It was never a bumper crop, but it was nice to get a little in March and April. It was always that one thing you could depend on to help drag you out of the winter doldrums. I miss it, but not the weeding involved. 

[Mitch f]

So does anyone have a better recipe for Asparagus? I’m so tired of the old Olive Oil, salt and pepper and throw it in the oven at 375 deal. 
the other thing that grips me about Asparagus is the old “break off the hard end” part. It’s a huge waste of Aparagus IMHO.

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21 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

So does anyone have a better recipe for Asparagus? I’m so tired of the old Olive Oil, salt and pepper and throw it in the oven at 375 deal. 
the other thing that grips me about Asparagus is the old “break off the hard end” part. It’s a huge waste of Aparagus IMHO.

My mom Used to sauté them in butter and then put eggs in there and fold them into omelette.  

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42 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

So does anyone have a better recipe for Asparagus? I’m so tired of the old Olive Oil, salt and pepper and throw it in the oven at 375 deal. 
the other thing that grips me about Asparagus is the old “break off the hard end” part. It’s a huge waste of Aparagus IMHO.

Wrap a bunch in bacon and cook them like a pork tenderloin.  

[MOPanfisher]

14 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Wrap a bunch in bacon and cook them like a pork tenderloin.  

Excellent way, you can roll them in aluminum if you don't want to dry them out.  I have found very few ways that I dislike asparagus.  Mushy out of a can is the worst but I can open a can, drain it and eat them right out of the can.  Not proud of that but there it is.  Partially cooked and rolled into an omlette is another excellent way.  And on occasion I will eat them raw as I pick them, the big tender ones especially, just try not to think about stray dogs that might use the asparagus patch to mark their territory.

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, Mitch f said:

So does anyone have a better recipe for Asparagus? I’m so tired of the old Olive Oil, salt and pepper and throw it in the oven at 375 deal. 
the other thing that grips me about Asparagus is the old “break off the hard end” part. It’s a huge waste of Aparagus IMHO.

           I snack on it raw as I am picking. Pat will steam it in a double boiler then some sharp smoked cheddar on it. !