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Back to Heidi Eastham’s method. She initially dug deep trenches, after seeing how county residents Joyce and Richard Abell had done their beds.
Success was not apparent, though, and she tried again, realizing that for her the deep digging disrupted the whole ecosystem and brought up too many weeds. “Weeding and picking is more therapy for the gardener than the plants,” she remarks.
In addition, the eastern slope she chose was not a good site. Disgusted, she covered up the bed with mulch and some time later discovered she had white (blanched) asparagus, a highly marketable delicacy.
After putting in asparagus plants four times, Heidi has “more experience, but less time.”
Practicality, being a market grower, is a priority, so treating the “grass” as such, she takes a lawn mower to her patch to cut it back, then bums it off, usually in early March, to stunt weed growth. Bugs are not one of her concerns: she finds that the bugs go to the weaker plants.
A few more of Heidi’s pointers: she plants about six inches
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