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I am shortly going to receive a bunch of asparagus roots and have prepared the trenches to plant them in. We get A LOT of rain here on the E. side of Hawaii...sometimes (2 weeks ago) 3feet in one week, sometimes .20" every night...and it generally is humid. Most everything is planted in a mix of broken up lava rock, like very coarse sand with varying degrees of compost/dirt.
The trenches I have dug are in a good mix of Chicken manure (aged), compost and cinders...with dolomite. I plan to sprinkle more chicken manure in the bottom of the trench, put cinders/compost on top of that and then the asparagus...and then cover them with a very well draining mix...the roots will be down about 4-5 inches. We don't need them deeper because it doesn't freeze, ever,...
Does this sound right? Should I plant them deeper and why? Should I make the bed MOSTly cinders with less compost? Right now it is about half/half.
I plan on covering the whole area with weed mat, and cut out a slit over the trenches for the plants to grow thru. I know alot of about 'gardening' but not a lot about growing asparagus!!!
Thanks in advance...
Carol
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