Transplanting Asparagus

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Transplanting Asparagus

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I have a raised area out front that gets full sun & it has Yucca, 2 rose bushes, a verigated smaller bush (don't know the name of it), a few daylillies & flowers, ornamental grass & asparagus has decided to grow there. At first there was only a couple, but now there must be a dozen plants. I'd like to transplant them, but I'm not sure when or how to transplant them. Does anyone here know or can give me advice or where to look.
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Asparagus roots go down to China, don't think you can transplant them successfully. That might have been the farmer's wife garden before we were born. :D
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I bought some asparagus plants at a garage sale, of all places. Looks like they just dg up the plants with lots of soil. I brought them home, plopped them in the ground and tada, they grew!
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I bought baby asparagus this spring. I follow the instructions of the grower: Dig a hole of 8 inch. Put 1 inch of compost and some ground bone (don't know if it has sense in english....). Place the asparagus around 9 inch of each other. Put 1 or 2 inch of ground. Wait to see the plant and gradually, put ground over untill it's the same level than the garden. For the vegetable, don't cut any asparagus next spring, only a few the year after, a little more the year after and all the asparagus you want the fifth year. Here, we have to stop collecting the asparagus after June, 24th and let the plant make their reserve of energy for the next year. I don't know for you... :wink:
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Jan, do you think some seed blew in there, or are they mature type roots?
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Asparagus do NOT transplant easily ... their root structure must not get damaged or they will not survive
If you try to move the plants you will almost certainly kill them :(
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I tried to transplant some old plants from my aunt's garden when she moved. From a wheelbarrow full of dug plants, I only had a few starts of it come back the next year.
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Some of them are big & fat, about the size of my thumb & others about the size of my little finger. Being a raised bed, It probably wouldn't be hard to dig down & get most all of their roots. Where they are at, it's hard to see when they are big enough to eat & therefore get too big before I see them for harvest, so I guess if I killed them by transplanting them.. it wouldn't be a big lose.

I need to move some of the plants out of that bed as they are starting to crowd each other anyway.
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