Well, hello everyone. Welcome back to the show. I hope you're doing amazing and I hope

the garden fever is starting to infect you because I know it is for me and I know that's

easy for me to say in a warm climate. And speaking of, we are taking a question today

from an unknown caller who has a question about asparagus. If you live in a warm climate

and you grow asparagus and it's so warm that it never freezes so the plants never die

back. When is the best time to cut it back so that it grows back up in spears? It's a fantastic

question and actually I'm putting in an asparagus bed for the first time in my life this season.

The garden hermit over here at Epic Gardening, he put in one last year and so I've been able to

see how his is developed in a warm climate and for those of you that don't know exactly how asparagus

grows, what's a hearty perennial? It's a cool season vegetable and it can live for 12 to 15 years,

maybe even longer depending on the conditions and how it's taken care of. Now what you need to do

when you're growing asparagus is no exactly where you're going to plant it because it's going to be

there for the next chapter of your entire life. So what you want to do is be patient. You want to

give it several years to mature. You don't want to harvest the spears after the first season.

You just want to let it go and it will pay you off many many many times over if you let it be.

But that brings us to the question when you're letting it be what if you're growing in a warm

climate and that foliage that it throws up that sort of fern like wispy foliage doesn't actually

die back. What do you do? Do you just leave it or do you cut it off and if you do when do you cut it off?

Well normally the frost would kill it off but we won't have it. So what you should do is you should

take a look at the foliage and look at when it starts to look sickly. So the foliage might yellow.

It might start to droop a little bit. That will be a good time to cut it off and if you're in a

warm zone that's probably going to be right about now in midwinter maybe in late winter you can cut

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