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Asparagus Seeds - Description
- Pack of Asparagus Seeds
- Packet Size: 120 Seeds
- Produces Crop of Fairly Thick Spears
- Produces Bright Green Spears With Deep Purple Tips
- RHS Award of Garden Merit Winner
- Crops For Many Years
Asparagus Seeds - Uses
- For indoor or outdoor growing
- Great in stir fries & soups
Asparagus Seeds - Advantages
- Extremely popular vegetable
- Very little maintenance needed
- Cost effective to grow
- Outstanding taste
Asparagus Seeds - Notes
- The main pests to attack asparagus are slugs and snails
- Important to avoid over cropping
- Important to keep your Asparagus free from weeds
Index
- Sowing Instructions
- How to Transplant
- Crop Maintenance
- How to Harvest
- Storage
Sowing Instructions
- Sowing time: Sow in early spring
- Sowing location: Indoors
- Sow in seed trays or pots
- If using a 24 cell seed tray sow one seed per cell
- If using 9cm pots sow 3 seeds per pot
- Asparagus needs 20°C to germinate
- Before you sow your asparagus seed, soak them in warm water for 24 hours
- Lightly cover seeds with compost, press down compost & soak
How to Transplant
- Transplant outdoors after 3 or 4 months
- Soil: Asparagus likes light, free draining soil, free of perennial weeds
- Ground preparation is done the previous autumn, adding well rotted farm yard manure
- If your soil is a heavy clay, grow asparagus in raised beds
- Asparagus is a perennial and will stay in the ground for many years - choose location carefully
Crop Maintenance
- Keep soil weed free at all times
- Keep the rows weed free and well watered
- Pests & Diseases
- Slugs and snails - Can damage young developing spears, reducing crops and weakening plants
- Asparagus beetles - spray with bifenthrin to control
Harvesting
- Allow plants to develop for first two years before harvesting
- Cut down spears in autumn of first year and mulch up around each plant
- Recommended that you leave harvesting until the third year, allowing plant develop a good root network
- Water well the week before harvest
- Harvest from May to mid June by removing spears with a sharp knife at ground level
- Harvest once spears are 15cm long
Storage
- Can be placed in the fridge for short term storage
- For longer term storage asparagus can be frozen, but not recommended
- Eat crops soon after harvest
Note: We don't ship plants on Fridays due to the extended period they would remain without light & water
Shipping Options & Rates
FOR IRELAND & NORTHERN IRELAND
- Standard Courier Delivery With Fastway (3-4 Working Days)
- Cost is €4.95 on Orders Below €75
- Free Delivery on Orders Above €75
- Rep. of Ireland & Northern Ireland Only
- Express Courier Delivery With Fastway (1-2 Working Days)
- Cost is €5 extra for express delivery
- This service guarantees that any order placed before 4pm will ship from our depot the same day on the next day delivery service *
- Rep. of Ireland & Northern Ireland Only
- Express Delivery With DPD (1-2 Working Days)
- Cost is €11.45 for orders below €75
- Cost is €6.50 for orders above €75
- This service guarantees that any order placed before 4pm will ship from our depot the same day on the next day delivery service *
- Rep. of Ireland & Northern Ireland Only
- This services comes with email tracking
- 'Seed' Postal Delivery Option ***
- Cost is €2 - Packet of Seeds ONLY Orders
- Note: Does Not Apply to Seed Potatoes, Bulbs or Sets ***
- Rep. of Ireland & Northern Ireland Only
- This is a non-trackable service
MAINLAND ENGLAND & SCOTLAND & WALES (Currently Unavailable Due to Brexit)
- Standard International Courier
- Cost is €10
- UK shipping fee covers parcels up to a total weight of 20Kg
WESTERN EUROPE & WORLDWIDE
- Standard International Courier
- Delivery rates vary, please see chart below
- Note: There is no free delivery for Western Europe Deliveries
Bulk Bags & Large Item Pallet Deliveries
- Bulk bags & large orders are shipped via pallet couriers on a rigid lorry
- Delivery is to kerbside only
- If road access to your site is tight, then please advise us before purchasing
- Please Note: We cannot guarantee next day delivery on pallet deliveries
- Also, we cannot guarantee delivery on a specific day (Please allow 1-3 days for delivery)
- It's always best to order well in advance to avoid disappointment
- Cancellation of pallets when items are already in transit will incur a 40 euro per pallet cancellation fee (To cover return delivery costs)
- Where pallet delivery can not be made due to site access, a 40 euro per pallet cancellation fee will apply (To cover return delivery costs)
International Delivery Prices & Times
- Please note max weights below, heavier orders may require additional payment
- We will contact you to discuss, if max weight of order exceeded
Terms
- The shipping fee is fixed for an order, regardless of the number of items bought
- All courier orders require signed proof of delivery & the customer must be contactable by phone
- We do not offer a weekend delivery service (Mon-Fri Only excl. Bank Holidays)
- * Our courier achieves a 98% success rate on next day deliveries
- Once your parcel is shipped it will be placed on works courier's next day delivery service
- ** Seed postal option applies to seed ONLY orders & is available in all 32 counties of Ireland
- *** Does not apply to seed potatoes, bulbs or sets
