We’ve been eating some asparagus. Not a huge amount but a good steady harvest of spears.
Problems though. Asparagus beetle has shown up. We’re trying to control it by picking off the beetles and spraying water on the fronds that have larvae and eggs. We had these pests before, a few years ago. They seemed to be eliminated by cleaning up the beds after the fronds died completely during the winter. Maybe they’re a cyclical pest? Or maybe they’re living in the wood chips?
Also, the raised beds are deteriorating and the productive roots seem to be migrating toward the edges of the bed, sometimes even outside the bed. We’ll probably have to rejuvenate the plantings at some time in the future. Hard to do, as we’ve just come to rely on it.