We have a bed that has a number of well-producing asparagus plants, but there are empty spots where there used to be plants, or only very spindly spears are coming up. Does anyone know how to harvest crowns from existing plants? I was thinking of sacrificing one of my healthy plants, filling in the spots and not harvesting those, then, for the two years. Is there any way to tell if the crowns would be male or female plants?
We have a bed that has a number of well-producing asparagus plants, but there are empty spots where there used to be plants, or only very spindly spears are coming up. Does anyone know how to harvest crowns from existing plants? I was thinking of sacrificing one of my healthy plants, filling in the spots and not harvesting those, then, for the two years. Is there any way to tell if the crowns would be male or female plants?