Asparagus
Espárrago · Asperge
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Height
- tall (> 100 cm)
- Shape
- upright
- Roots
- deep
- Sun
- full sun
- Season
- perennial
- Grows in
- summer or winter beds
- Feeds
- heavy feeder
Jobs in the bed
A plain neighbour: no special job.
Rotation
Do not return Asparagaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years.
✓ Good neighbours
None listed.
✗ Keep apart
- ✗ Potatodigging up potatoes damages its crowns
✿ Helpful flowers & herbs
- ✿ ParsleyFlowers attract hoverflies & parasitic wasps Shares the carrot fly with carrots