I prepared the bed in 2014. Dug a trench two feet deep, and filled it back in with aged manure, coconut hair, compost. I planted seeds but nothing came up so I planted some yellow crookneck squash seed. Later on that summer, I noticed some little fern like plants underneath the squash leaves and realized they were the asparagus. So I kept them weeded and watered. After the squash plants exhausted themselves I carefully dug them up.
The asparagus stems that year grew to over four feet tall. I cut them back in the mid winter and mulched them. In 2015 some spears were thick enough to eat. I didn't harvest them all. You have to allow some spears to mature so the roots can spread. In 2016 I harvested a bunch of spears, about four or five dozen, I think. Later that year Ali's crewmen buried the bed.
Those spears will eventually reach four or more feet sometime this summer.
Old Cadillacs never die. The finance company take 'em and faaaaade 'em away.
