Dreer's Open-air vegetables (1897) Dreer's Open-air vegetables . dreersopenairveg00dree Year: 1897 PART II. CHAPTER XII. ASPARAGUS CULTURE. HOME-MADE ASPARAGUS BUNCHER. Philadelphia market gardeners generally prefer a green- colored rather than a purple-colored asparagus. They set out one-year-old or two-year-old roots in about equal quanti- ties, some growers demanding the former and some the latter. They say that city stable manure is the best known main fertilizer for asparagus. They set the rows four to five feet apart, with plants two feet apart in the rows, working the furrows a foot
Dreer's Open-air vegetables (1897) Dreer's Open-air vegetables . dreersopenairveg00dree Year: 1897 PART II. CHAPTER XII. ASPARAGUS CULTURE. HOME-MADE ASPARAGUS BUNCHER. Philadelphia market gardeners generally prefer a green- colored rather than a purple-colored asparagus. They set out one-year-old or two-year-old roots in about equal quanti- ties, some growers demanding the former and some the latter. They say that city stable manure is the best known main fertilizer for asparagus. They set the rows four to five feet apart, with plants two feet apart in the rows, working the furrows a foot deep with the plow, followed by a shovel. They bunch the asparagus, ship it in ventilated berry crates, and consider it a profitable crop, even at present prices, which are somewhat reduced as compared with former quotations. Such, in brief, is a summary of the Dreer field notes of 1896. Variety, Age, Distance, Depth. Beginning with the comment of an expert grower, that half the battle is to start with the right variety of asparagus, it may be said that Philadelphia gardeners usually prefer the light-green mam- moth strain which is now sold under the name of Eclipse. 40
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