25 'Millennium' Asparagus Plants - Bare Root Asparagus Crowns - Cold Hardy and Grows Well in Heavy Soils - 2yr-Crowns from Hand Picked Nursery

Arrived in good condition. Not the best time of year to plant in Kansas, but already more than half have sprouted up about 4 inches. I’m sure the others will. They haven’t been planted that long ago!

Planted 'em the same day I got 'em. Didn't plant 'em "exactly" as instructed, but good enough. They have a good root structure so they should do good.

Order came timely. When I opened package it looks fresh. I counted 14 large and 13 small crowns- small meaning they have less roots to them. The order comes with 25 crowns. I am not going to complain about it because they gave me a few extra so that kind of makes up for the size. They’re in fresh condition and a note inside tells you to log on to their website for planting details. There is also instruction that you must call them if you want to return. Will plant them this weekend and update my progress later.

When I opened the bag with the roots, they appeared to be a bit moldy, but got them in the ground quickly. 6 days later, I have 19 of 25 that have spears coming up so far. Yay!

Out of the 22 asparagus crowns that came. They all had healthy root systems. All 22 have sprouted. Some has had thick spears. I let them all fern out so next year, I will be able to harvest for a longer period since it will be 3 year old crowns by then. Very happy. I planted some in my flower beds that I use as a garden bed and some in the back yard. You do need supports to keep the ferns upright otherwise they fall to the ground as they get taller - can get 5 ft talk. I got a mixture of female and male plants. The females have flowers and the males don’t. As you can see from my video. Hand picked nursery has always had very good stock be it asparagus or strawberries. I bought strawberries in the last few years from them.

16/25 crowns actually broke the surface. Not a bad growth ratio, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to see more. I planted just as directed, but I think the spring was against me as we got a lot of natural rain showers that may have caused the lack of growth. It was a very wet spring in KY. I’ll wait to see how many breach the surface in the spring and I’ll fill in the gaps with another variety of asparagus.

we ordered some two year crowns a couple of years ago from another supplier. They were about three to four inches long. They came up ok, but the deer feasted on them and killed them. We received a hundred crowns from this supplier, and they are huge. About eight to ten inches. Cannot wait to eat some next spring. We put up some deer deterrents.

Planted a bed of these a couple weeks ago, we already have skinny asparagus poking through the mulch. Unexpected....... We planted in a fertile sandy soil, soaking the crowns overnight in water, then planting the crowns as instructed. Same result for both the millennium and purple varieties (planted in separate raised beds/areas)