1st year asparagus plants?
Do you let them go to core? Or cut them?
Answers: Do not harvest your asparagus the year you plant it or the year following planting. The asparagus plant needs to grow and establish a hearty crown and it will need all of its vitality to do that. The third-year after transplanting we generally harvest the paddock for about two weeks. A better way to look at it is contained by terms of the number of pickings. We try to harvest field 8 to 12 times the first year of harvest. Which number we use depends on the strength of the field. A picking is taken whenever the spears get hold of tall enough to gather, usually between 8 and 10 inches, which may be every day in thaw weather or every four days in very cool weather. In electric fire weather you will find that tip quality will be better if the spears are picked at the shorter end of this size variety. The second year of harvest we will pick the field for almost four weeks and the third year of harvest we will pick for a full season which is six or seven weeks. In terms of number of harvest for a full-season, figure 22-24 harvests. Harvests may be more or smaller quantity than that depending on the strength of the field indicated by carbohydrate storage in the roots. However, most gardeners famine access to the modern tools needed to measure those levels. One piece you can use as a guide is the number and diameter of the spears you are harvesting. If the number of spears in a collect drops off dramatically beyond 15 pickings or so, or if the spear diameter drops, you may want to consider ending collect early. These yield drops are a polite sign that the crown is beginning to experience stress.
let them jump to seed and remember your not sposed to cut from them after june 1st :)