Growing Asparagus

[sheerlookhomes]

Hi, I remember someone here asking for advice on growing asparagus - at least a year ago!! - well I found this article in The Saturday Telegraph (London, U.K.) and thought it might be of some use or helpful.
If anyone would like to have it, just email me a postal address and I will happily post/mail it to you.

P.S. hopefully the picture will load, if not, be patient, I will get it up somehow!

 

[sudsmaster]

I love asparagus but I think it doesn't like me. Makes my pee stink, lol...

I grow my own avocados, though. They aren't cheap to buy most of the year, and it's nice to be able to pluck a few from the garden.

Also grow my own limes, lemons, oranges, tangelos, and kumquats (although I nearly killed the kumquat this summer when I didn't realize the irrigation hose in its container had stopped dripping and it nearly fried to death during a hot spell. There are still some green leaves here and there so I'm hoping it will recover, eventually. Might take a year or two).

Also grow lettuce, tomatoes, squash, sweet and hot peppers, green beans, grapes, figs, apples, pears, peaches, almonds... some do better than others...

 

[toggleswitch2]

What, no panties?

I thought I read once that on the olden days (before indoor plumbing) that women wore ankle-length skirts and would often discretely tinkle over a sewer grate. One frequenly saw signs that said somehting like:

"Please don't pass your water here, if you have had asparagus!"

 

[cleanteamofny]

TOGGLE'S YOU SO NASTY!

But I like you!
lol

 

[toggleswitch2]

*BLUSH*

 

[bajaespuma]

Thank you.

That was me who asked about growing asparagus and thank you for the article--very helpful. I've located asparagus(and strawberry crowns)online and they will be delivered in the spring. We have a walking trail nearby where local birds have established an asparagus bed, unfortunately others have discovered it as well so I have to be quick to harvest.

About 1/2 of human beings have a specific receptor in their olfactory center that is able to detect "aspergene" in urea. All of us excrete the stuff but only half can smell it. Lucky us.

In Northern Germany, where they grow white Asparagus or "Spargel" so big and thick as to seem obscene, it is commonly served steamed with salted bread crumbs sauteed in pools of brown butter. Oy Vey--YUM!

 

[sudsmaster]

I don't know about the olfactory receptors, but I've always been informed that about 1/2 of us have an enzyme that converts something in asparagus into an odorous compound in our urine. I did a quick google on it and that still seems to be the case.

It's also possible that some people can't smell the odor... and perhaps there are even some whose urine stinks but can't smell it. But not every produces odorous urine after eating asparagus - only about 60% of us...

Why does urine smell like asparagus? - Answers

Apparently, asparagus contains a sulphurous amino acid called methyl mercaptan, although there seems to be debate among scientists if there are other chemicals involved.AnswerIt's quite common. A compound in asparagus is broken down by the digestive system and apparently only creates that odor...

wiki.answers.com

 

[sheerlookhomes]

another article

by sheer (gettit!!) chance I came upon another article on asparagus which I had saved - again from the Saturday Telegraph though earlier.
I had to foreshorten the image by about 8mm to fit on the scanner, but all the text is there. Hope it is helpful.

 

[sheerlookhomes]

another article

by sheer (geddit!) chance I came upon another 'asparagus' article which I had saved from an earlier edition of The Saturday Telegraph.
I had to foreshorten it by about 8mm to fit on the scanner, but all the text is there. Hope it is helpful.