Growin Asparagus - square foot gardening

[Dr Pips]

Hi all,

I’ve been doing square foot gardening for a few years now and I’ve had some great successes. I’ve decided I want to give over 1 of my beds to asparagus, mainly because we love it, it’s expensive and I’ve heard you can’t just grow a couple of asparagus plants so we may as well give over a whole bed (4’ x 2’).

Does anyone have any experience growing asparagus using sfg? Is it just one plant per square foot?

Would really appreciate your comments,
Dom

[veggiechicken]

Since asparagus is a perennial and will be in place for years to come, wouldn't you space them as advised and disregard SFG?

[Dr Pips]

Good point

[Snadger]

I've planted three plants in my herbaceous border. I only left 1 foot between plants in a triangular formation.

[SarrissUK]

I've planted mine a foot apart, but in two rows, with the rows being two foot apart.

[Mark_Riga]

You could have 2 rows about 10" to 12" apart with 4 in 1 row and 3 in the other so the 7 plants are about 1' apart. I assume there is a path round the bed that would act as part of the space they were taking up.
Edit: a bit like Snadger's.

[Nicos]

Out of interest, look at the root development picture in the article!
https://soilandhealth.org/wp-content...010137ch6.html