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 ...

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, Asparagus officinalis is a favorite spring crop that is harvested from May to late June. This is a perennial vegetable whose edible parts are called spears, they grow upright stalks that ...

Asparagus is not just for spring. Try these tips for a continuous harvest. Have you thought about devoting some of your vegetable garden space to asparagus? A bed will last for at least 25 years and ...

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 ...

The state legislature should make rhubarb mandatory for every home yard - especially the type with ruby red stalks. Add asparagus plants and strawberries, and you've got an old-fashioned yard that is ...

See how fast an asparagus plant was growing from a seed in this time-lapse. The asparagus seed was sown under soil in a ...

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 ...