Dog Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 First three spears of the year today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 Dog, if they're the white ones, I don't really like them. Only like the green ones.BTW, do you know whether you can plant long-stemmed broccoli in France? Excuse me, but I do mean the ones that Tesco sells in bunches?[:$] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 Down here, the famous centre of asparagus (it's about the only thing we are famous for!), they reckon that this year's crop is about 3 wks late. Certainly, nothing in the shops yet.Getting impatient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted March 23, 2010 Author Share Posted March 23, 2010 Yes they are green asparagus and yes regular brocolli grows well. Our peach tree has just flowered but the mango hasn't yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 There was some green asparagus in our greengrocer's yesterday, labelled France. But the local asparagus will be at least 2 weeks late I was told. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Spotted the first greenish/purple phallus yesterday, just an inch or so peeping through the soil. Have not seen any in the shops yet.John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Just got back from the market. There was one stall with a small box of very local thin green asparagus, and a couple of bundles of white from the next village along, from a very sunny slope. I didn't buy any as we're out for lunch and supper, but I'm planning on doing so at the weekend or next week; they're very local growers, and to be trusted; there are a few of the stalls there at weekends that I wouldn't be as sure about.Off topic to eggs; the egg man was there. He'd had problems with the hens in the unexpected snow a couple of weeks ago; I can look around anytime I'm passing, as I'm so interested in them being organic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 There is some white French asparagus (which I don't care for) in my shops now and Spanish Green stuff. I tried it but unfortunately it was rather tasteles.I do love the proper asparagus in the proper season, I like it raw or with a little olive oil and tossed on the BBQ for a miute or two. Steaming is OK but I think it takes something away.It's a good job the season is short as I don't have the asparagus gene which means my wee smells something awful [+o(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Pierre, can't you find something else to sniff than your own wee?[8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Believe me, it's more a question of holding your breath than taking a sniff [+o(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonrouge Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 We have two huge beds of the green stuff here in the Vendee and from garden to pot it is seconds. However and on my travels I lived once near Evesham and indeed went to many charity auctions at the Fleece at Bretforton. There is nothing bar nothing to compare with Evesham asparagus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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