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Why Is My Asparagus Ferning Out?
10.06.2023 - 22:23 / gardenerspath.com / Kristine Lofgren
Why Is My Asparagus Ferning Out?Growing asparagus can be a bit of a challenge if you’ve never done it before.
These plants aren’t like squash or strawberries. You don’t plant them and then wait for the fruits to develop so you can pluck them off.
With asparagus, you harvest the stems of the plant, and then you wait for more stems to return so you can do it again.
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When all goes to plan, the process is pretty straightforward. But when funky stuff like ferning out early starts to happen, it can be perplexing.
In this guide, we’ll help you understand more about this process, what it is, and what – if anything – you should do about it.
Here’s what we’ll talk about, coming up:
Ferning out isn’t always a bad thing. But when it happens at the wrong time, it can ruin your harvest.
So let’s figure out how to deal with it.
What Is Ferning Out?First, we need to clarify our terms. Sending out foliage, aka the ferns, is a phase of growth that the asparagus plant needs to go through each year. It’s a healthy, normal part of the growing process.
At the end of the growing season, you allow the plant to form lots of fluffy foliage that emerges from the spears. Next, the female plants will form berries, and then the foliage of both male and female plants will eventually turn brown.
You don’t usually want to harvest asparagus in the first or second year, and sometimes even the third. So for the first few years, you’ll just let the plants do their thing, forming ferns and having a good old time.
Even once you do start harvesting the spears, you want what remains to start forming foliage at the end of the harvest season so they can gather
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