one year ahead

[Ginamccon]

Ray, I’m one year ahead of you. Over winter early this year I did as Charles advises and on top of very weedy ground put a good six inches plus of garden waste and topped it off with a dusting of horse manure as I didn’t have much. I didn’t use any cardboard, plastic, weed membrane etc as I didn’t have any. As weeds came through and there wasn’t many I removed them. When the asparagus arrived I dug down through the compost and sat the crown on top of the soil. Out of the sixty planted (yes, I and everyone I know loves asparagus)of 6 different varieties all are growing strongly and weed free apart from one variety that has struggled from the start (much smaller/thinner crowns) and I put this down to the variety rather than planting as all the others are doing so well.