...is like googling how to locate the best fishing spot on a specific lake. Its a guarantee you will come up empty handed. So how does one find the "How-to" when it comes to foraging for the elusive spears? Take a hike!
The author carefully planning his next move. |
An asparagus shoot, past its prime. |
*See that beauty right there is what I was looking for. I thought it screamed "Hey dummy. Right below me in this grass is a bounty of fresh spears". Boy was I wrong...
Some kind of skull. Possibly a T Rex? |
Nothing. Nada. Zip. The search continued. I scoured the ditches along a looong gravel utility road and came across a very similar scenario every single time. I started to doubt my eye sight. I started to doubt my timing. I even started to doubt what I saw standing tall and proud was asparagus. Of course it was, but those long walks have you questioning a lot when you are empty handed. But I wasn't. I started noticing a pattern right about the same time I had to get back to my daily routine. So where were the asparagus? I was looking in the right spots: along the road in ditches, along old fence lines, and at the edges of farm fields. What I had found in almost every case was a few tall asparagus standing tall and proud not because they were marking the location of their fellow spears, but letting me know I missed the opportunity to a bunch of "asparagus hunters" whom had combed these grounds before me! I was late to the game but it all wasn't a waste. After heavy rains, asparagus roots will send up new shoots. In some cases these new shoots will grow 6" in a single day. If my research is correct, they stop sending up shoots around the second week of June in my area. I am not a veteran hunter, but I do plan on combing these few asparagus patches I came across again in a couple of days.
What do I have to lose?
Wild Columbine |
Health benefits of Asparagus |
Cheers ~ Kevin
What you didn't mention was the ticks....... :)
ReplyDeleteHey.. come on now ;-)
DeleteTicks are a small price to pay. ;-)
ReplyDeleteAgree!
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