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Spring planted variety.

From German breeding, heavy flush of large spears early in the season with significant yield and quality improvements over many varieties.

Crowns which are grown outside in special Asparagus beds are only despatched throughout the dormant winter months from December to mid March and are sold bare rooted; after that pot grown plants are supplied. We will notify you with a delivery date after placing your order. Despatched from mid February.

Choose from the drop down the number of crowns.

Despatch February/April

More tender and sweet than many green varieties. The spears are basically string less and delicious eaten raw, with dips, or sliced in salads. Colour is lost if cooked so is best steamed. Produces super sweet white spears if earthed up.

Despatch Jan to March.

This is a superior variety of Asparagus that produces premium quality spears up to 2cm thick. Cropping potential is enormous and whilst it is what is termed as an F1 Hybrid for uniformity of growth the plants are grown under our ‘nature’s way’ conditions.

It has a high tolerance to Fusarium, Crown and Root Rot.

Up to 20 years cropping can be expected making this a highly profitable variety in every way for amateur and smallholder alike.

These are pot grown plants not bare rooted crowns.

The 2 year old plants can yield a small crop in spring 2013 and a large crop in 2014.

Despatch May to October.

An excellent variety with bright green spears with deep purple tips. Though this is an old, popular variety it produces an exceptionally high yield. The plants are best planted on receipt and though a few spears can be cut the following year it is best left another year so that it can build into a strong plant. It has been given an AGM (Award of Garden Merit) by the Royal Horticultural Society as its an outstanding variety.

Garden: care: Plant crowns in a trench that is 30cm (12in) wide by 20cm (8in) deep with a central ridge that is 10cm (4in) high. Place the crown on the ridge, spreading the roots out evenly and cover with soil. Harvest the spears in mid-spring when they are about 15cm (6in) tall and fairly thick.

Crowns which are grown outside in special Asparagus beds are only despatched throughout the dormant winter months from December to mid March and are sold bare rooted. Select the number of crowns from the drop down menu.

Despatch February/April

These plants are two years old and can take a light cut next year. It's not too late to start your asparagus bed with these plants and you don't have to waite 2 years for you first cut.

2L - 3L pot