Georgia Gardening: Growing Asparagus in GA, 1 by MaypopLaurel

MaypopLaurel wrote:
We started our asparagus bed in what had been a gravel road/parking space for heavy equipment. In fact, our entire garden is on that former road. We hand dug with a pick'matic, over many years, sifted gravel and then enriched the garden a few feet each year until we could afford a tiller. As for asparagus, the bed needs to be set all at once. With that in mind, we created very deep trenches (about 18"), back filled with the original soil, much amended, to 12" and made mounds of compost and well rotted manure about 18" apart. We spread the roots around the mounds and back filled the trenches with the original clay, amended with compost. Our bed is about 15' deep and 20' long. So here's an October pic and I'll send you some others through DM. I normally till the top soil (wearing light shoes) to bury weeds and add compost/manure in late February. I do not otherwise fertilize. I'm posting an October pic and will send you others, with pumpkins, privately. Hope this helps. If you need more specifics, DM.
Laurel