| Common name | asparagus |
| Family | liliaceae |
| Life cycle | perennial |
| Flowers | green (summer) |
| Size | 7' |
| Light | sun |
| Cultural notes | ordinary garden soil |
| From seed | we grow a sterile form |
One of only two perennial vegetables we grow (the other being rhubarb), asparagus makes quite a statement in our vegetable garden. Once it starts shooting up in spring, we typically get only a few meals out of our patch, because invariably, we forget to check on new growth for a few days, at which point the shoots are two feet tall and no longer fit for eating. And they don't stop there - soon after, they are blooming, and reaching to the sky. By mid-summer, our patch resembles an enchanted forest of green upright trunks, with weeds representing the undergrowth, and bindweeds the vines climbing up the trunks. Quite a picture!
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