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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Those were picked a little late, stalks are starting to wrinkle and the heads opening, they might be a little bitter.
Recipes
Creamed on toast great light meal
Broiled and basted with butter
Grilled again baste with buttle
Soup, when trimming the tough ends, save and make cream of asparagus soup. After the hard ends a cooked run them through a Folly mill to remove the fiber.
Cut up raw and add to a salad.
As a kid in WI picking asparagus was a Sunday afternoon outing for the family. We would drive the country roads and all of us would watch the roadsides for it, usually filling a shopping bag full. All my family still have asparagus beds in their yards. We would hike the railroad tracks and pick it also.
Living in WA we had access to great asparagus and if you could find a farmer that would let you hunt asparagus fields in the fall are great pheasant hunting.
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Ya, we put that $hit on everything !
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I have a 5 plus year bed of them growing l
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atvalaska, I’ve not seen it to validate but is it true that asparagus will grow and flourish for like 10 or 15 yrs. As simple as I garden that sounds amazing.
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Yes, plant or seed it & 1 - 2 years later, you'll have great crops for many years.
We started seeds, late winter before last, planted last spring, might be able to harvest this year, but definitely next year.
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I love smelly pee season !
I grow a bunch of it. I planted a bunch of it the first spring I owned my house... 20 years ago..
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Mine are just starting,. Should be able to pick a small batch tomorrow. I have them planted in a 4 ft diameter stock tank that rusted out
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I just bought a fresh bunch of it at farmer's market an hour ago. it was just picked today and can't get much fresher.
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Absolutely love asparagus. Sautéed with some bacon/onions/garlic or just grilled with salt/pepper/granulated garlic.
It’s a far cry from the steamed version I was fed as a child.
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Aren’t they biennial?
I love home grown asparagus.
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Battered and deep fried are very good, Othelo fries from a bar in eastern Washington were the best I have ever tasted.
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My sister-in-law makes it on the grill. Not sure what all she puts in there but I know butter is one thing. It’s awesome.
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Aren’t they biennial?
I love home grown asparagus. Get it annually.
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I grilled some asparagus one time when I was fixing Ribeyes. Now my wife wants asparagus with Ribeyes.
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All through high school I hauled produce from the Sacramento markets to my town of Pittsburg. These were early morning (leave my house at 3:30 AM) runs and I would stop for breakfast at Alma's Cafe in Walnut Grove. As an aside, they had a pretty sharp daughter... Many times, while eating breakfast, a farmer would comment on "their" produce on my truck. We also had access to Victoria Island for ducks and also asparagus after the harvest. We would head out with simple knives and fill a number of wooden crates with them. Good times 40+ years ago.
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There is only one commercial farm left in the Sac-Joaquin Delta growing asparagus pictured above. only 600 arces and all of it sold only locally within 50 miles of the packing shed. Just had the Asparagus Festival here last weekend. Daughter's boyfriend Farmer Mike picks up fresh batches from the shed for his Mom to pickle. Damn they is good too.
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