Propagate asparagus »This is how it works

Where to get seeds from

There are several ways to get asparagus seeds:

• Buy seeds from specialist dealers
• Harvest asparagus seeds from your own plants
• Swap with neighbors or hobby gardeners

Seeds from large asparagus fields are mostly unusable

Around a few poles in the house garden Planting asparagus, it is usually not worth buying large bags of seeds. That is why hobby gardeners like to collect a few grains from the large asparagus fields from commercial cultivation. However, mostly only male plants are kept there.

However, male plants do not produce a germinable seed. If you don't know if the plants are male or female, ask or ask other hobby gardeners for a few grains.

Buy seeds for the desired asparagus varieties from specialist dealers yourself, make sure that you choose female or hermaphrodite plant seeds and not male plants. Then from the second year of asparagus cultivation you can obtain seeds for propagation yourself.

Obtain seeds from your own plants

After Asparagus season the asparagus is no longer pricked or cut.

The asparagus plants then form long green stems with feathery leaves. In summer the Asparagus flower a.

When the foliage of the asparagus plants is dark yellow, the seeds are also ripe and can be collected. They are removed from the pulp and laid out to dry.

Why collecting the semen is necessary

Even if you don't have any seeds for that Cultivation in the garden you should carefully collect the grains. If you leave them on the foliage, they will fall to the ground when ripe. In the next year your garden will be covered with small asparagus plants.

Many hobby gardeners are happy to be given asparagus seeds, especially if they are rare sorts acts. Simply swap your seeds for other plants.

Tips & Tricks

Experienced hobby gardeners immediately plant the freshly harvested asparagus seeds in small pots and grow the asparagus plants indoors over the winter. You can then put quite large plants outdoors in May.