Asparagus Pacific Purple
Asparagus 'Pacific Purple'
Common Name: Asparagus Pacific Purple
Genus: Asparagus
Cultivar: 'Pacific Purple'
Category: Fruit & Vegetables
Height: 0.90 m (90 cm)
Spread: 0.60 m (60 cm)
- Position: full sun
- Soil: moderately-fertile well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Other features: asparagus spears are delicious lightly steamed and served with melted butter; suitable for freezing; disease-resistant variety; asparagus should be allowed to establish into a strong plant before harvesting.
- Hardiness: fully hardy
Thick tasty purple spears are produced in May and early June. This is a high yielding variety that is super sweet when cooked. Not only does it make a delcious meal but the ferny foliage is also decorative in summer.
Asparagus are ideal for growing in a sheltered sunny area of the vegetable garden or allotment in well prepared ground to which lots of manure or compost has been added the previous autumn. - Garden care: Keep the area weed free and water plants during dry weather. In autumn cut down the ferny stems once they have turned yellow. Before the spears appear in spring make a ridge of soil over each row and apply a dressing of Growmore.
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