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Western News Democrat
Valentine, Cherry County, Nebraska
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Instructions for preparing and maintaining an asparagus bed, including soil enrichment with old manure, trench planting, weeding, and annual top-dressing.
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The soil for an asparagus bed should be made rich before planting it. In the first place, the bed should have good drainage, and then it should have dug into it a heavy dressing of old manure. Do not use fresh manure, as this will be filled with weed seeds, and, besides, it is not so well adapted to plant nutriment as old rotted manure. Having the soil properly prepared, trenches should be opened about six inches in depth and the plants set in these trenches, spreading out the roots on the bottom of the trench in every direction. This done, commence to fill in the soil, which must be fine and capable of sifting down closely among the roots. After filling in two or three inches of soil, tread it down firmly on the roots, and then finish filling it in. Never allow any weeds to grow among the plants. To maintain the fertility, supply a coating of old manure, two or three inches in thickness, over the whole bed every fall, letting it lie on the surface, where the rain can soak it and wash it into the soil. In the spring, what is left can be lightly pointed in so as not to disturb the roots.
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The soil for an asparagus bed should be made rich before planting it. In the first place, the bed should have good drainage, and then it should have dug into it a heavy dressing of old manure. Do not use fresh manure, as this will be filled with weed seeds, and, besides, it is not so well adapted to plant nutriment as old rotted manure. Having the soil properly prepared, trenches should be opened about six inches in depth and the plants set in these trenches, spreading out the roots on the bottom of the trench in every direction. This done, commence to fill in the soil, which must be fine and capable of sifting down closely among the roots. After filling in two or three inches of soil, tread it down firmly on the roots, and then finish filling it in. Never allow any weeds to grow among the plants. To maintain the fertility, supply a coating of old manure, two or three inches in thickness, over the whole bed every fall, letting it lie on the surface, where the rain can soak it and wash it into the soil. In the spring, what is left can be lightly pointed in so as not to disturb the roots.