Supporting asparagus ferns

[kathyd]

Hi. My sparry grass has all fallen over. I've done very creative things with garden string but it just looks like a badly made cat's cradle full of falling over sparry grass. Can anyone describe at idiot level how I should be doing things please?

Thx

[Uber-Uncool]

I haven't bothered supporting them this year, but last year i positioned a cane nearby and then bought all the closest ferns up toward it and tied with string, somewhat loosely as they can be fragile.

[kathyd]

Mmmm, I did have a few canes around but probably not enough or in the right places.. I thought I'd read that you only need to tie a big loop around the outside of the bed and they'd support each other, so I started with that but then kept adding bits of string when it didn't work. Now it's just a pigsty and still doesn't work! So maybe a cane each, if I get desperate...

[dominic10]

I only have a few asparagus at the moment but have just planted up a new bed. I have been using canes for my current lot but with the weather this year even two canes wasn't enough. I intend using stakes and wire for my new bed. This seems to be very effective on other allotment plots.

[Rhona]

Our ferns are over 6 ft high at the moment. I use a fairly basic cane and string approach, but we also have a rambling rose behind the asparagus bed, and the ferns snag on the roses a bit, which helps support them!

[Paulottie]

depends on your arrangements a bit.

My beds are traditional triple rows... 1.5 metres by about 4.5 metres A metre high post at each corner and another pair half way up. Take some tough string or washing line stretch round the outside and across the middle and u tack it to the top of the posts....if you have spare do the diagonals as well....voila.

bit like a broad bean patch really.