Handschuh für Größenvergleich!
Ich kaufte die bloßen Wurzeln im Februar und steckte sie in diesen Pflanzer. Sie hatten Mulch bis vor kurzem über sie gelassen, waren aber nicht vor Frost 😔 abgedeckt oder geschützt. Ich habe ein paar kg Kaffeegelände zusammen mit dem hausgemachten Kompost dort in den Pflanzer gesteckt, um es etwas alkalischer zu machen.
Und ich habe jetzt! Gibt es einen Rettungssparen und wenn nicht, irgendwelche Gedanken darüber, was schief gelaufen ist?
NB. Ich bin im Februar ein bisschen zu aufgeregt. Geben Sie auch 5 -fache bare Erdbeeren in einen Pflanzer nach draußen – nur 1 wächst 😔 😔
Von: RedJaguar2021
10 Comments
Caffeine is a natural herbicide which inhibits plant growth.
Coffee is acidic isn’t it? Could also be frost and poor drainage. How deep did you mulch them? The RHS has a good guide.
Coffee is typically used to add *acidity* to soil, so that’s your first problem since you needed to make yours alkaline.
Your second problem is the quantity used. That much coffee grounds would have probably compacted, ruining any chance of good drainage. Your planter was likely waterlogged and, once that happened, any frost would have been game over.
Coffee was bad idea, but also they look like they are planted too low in that trough, so possibly not getting enough sunlight. But ultimately, and the same with the strawberries, you have planted them too early. Bare root asparagus is best planted from March to early May, and you’ve planted them in February. Sorry but you’ve jumped the gun, better look next year
There is really not a lot of space there for asparagus, you want to be looking at around 18 inches minimum around each plant. I can’t see any asparagus there to be honest – what are the dried-up leaves above ground? They are not asparagus.
You need three years before harvesting but you should be getting (thin) asparagus spears now it is warming up and you don’t have them. Did you put down some compost, spread the roots around that (after building up the soil/compost into a mound)?
Mulch is really important over winter to protect the roots and crown but you may want to thin it out once the weather warms up so the crown isn’t too insulated.
If you only put them in in Feb though then it’s likely they are only just getting established, give them time and you might see some spears in a few weeks (but don’t harvest them! You need to let them grow up and become like ferns to feed the roots).
One thing which I would say though is lose the strawberries – asparagus doesn’t like or need any competition, you should be weeding anything else out and definitely not adding things which will take away nutrients from the crowns.
EDIT The more I look at the photo the more I wonder if you have put them in upside down! Are those roots above the soil?
Have you dug them up for this photo, or is that how they look now? Because if that’s how you planted them then that’s why they are dead. Those beige things are the roots. You planted them both upside down and without any soil covering (they should be buried a few inches deep).
They prefer alkaline mineral based soils, great for sandy land, not really what you have going on here
Those are the roots. They should be facing downwards into the soil and splayed outwards like a spider. The RHS website has excellent advice on how to plant and grow asparagus. They trough is not wide enough for them.
Strawberries would be happy in there.
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I think the crowns are upside down? The roots in the air?
Whip em out and replant tomorrow asap.
If they are newly planted, you can trim the roots to trigger new growth. If they’ve been ‘in’ for a week or two, you may have to get new crowns.
Upside down.