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Vegetable Planting Calendar
Asparagus
- Approximate planting per person per year, fresh, 10 to 15 roots
- Approximate planting per person per year, process, 10 to 15 roots
- 1 ounce of seeds for 100 feet of row
- Minimum row space if hand cultivated, 48 inches
- Minimum row space if using field implements, 48 inches
- 18 inches between plants in row
- Plant 0.5 inch deep
- 3 years from planting to eating stage
- 1,040 international units of vitamin A per 100 gram sample
- 23 milligrams of vitamin C per 100 gram sample
- Asparagus questions and answers
- Recommended varieties
- Atlas
Can be grown in southern Missouri.
- Jersey Gem
Cut lightly for first two years. Do not harvest the same year that you plant.
- Jersey Giant
Buy one-year-old crowns
- Jersey King
- Jersey Knight
May sow seed and grow plants.
- Jersey Prince
- Jersey Supreme
- Mary Washington
- UC157 F2
Can be grown in southern Missouri.
- Recommended planting dates
- South Missouri
March 15 to April 5
- Central Missouri
April 1 to 20
- North Missouri
April 5 to 25
- North Missouri
G6201, revised April 2000
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