I usually wait until after the 1st frost to trim back the ferns on the asparagus. When I bought the plants, they were Jersey Giants and were supposed to be all males. One little girl decided she wanted to be “where the boys are”. She produces seeds every year, but they have just been allowed to self-sow. This year a few of the seeds were hanging around when the ferns were cut down so they got planted in the greenhouse.
Searching the internet for transplanting information, I learned that Jersey Giants are hybrid asparagus. The little plants are there already so they will be planted anyway. They will go into a new bed so they will be easy to identify as the illegitimate children of the regular bed.
In the regular bed it is difficult to identify the asparagus that grew from seed or the original plants. Asparagus beds are supposed to last 40 years. That is longer than I expect to last, but I look forward to replacing the beds with rootstock that has been grown from seed.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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