One of the myriad of interesting neighbors around here gave us enough starters for five nice sized asparagus plants. Yum. His are awesome and I can be sure of that because Karen cooked up a mess (as Craig called it) of it that we got along with the plants to grow our own. One thing I didn’t know about asparagus is that it’s ready to eat pretty early in the year–maybe as early as February. That’s great news. One thing about growing your own food is that there are times when nothing is ready. You have to work at finding things that produce in the off times.

Craig did warn me that these can be a bit of a pest. All the ones he gave me were volunteers growing right where they were not wanted. (Mostly in the middle of his garlic.) We planted ours down near the solar panels which may become the perennials area. We have two pomegranate plants there already.