We planted asparagus this weekend (4/11/10). It comes in "crowns" (a pile of crowns, shown left), which are a root mass with a little nub of new growth at the top. They are a funny, rubbery texture, like a ball of fishing worms.
Pat started preparing the bed last weekend by disking up a piece of ground and turning the soil over. This weekend he loosened it up, dug a trench and turned in some compost and added some lime to make the soil more basic. Then we laid out the crowns 18" apart in the trench.
Kinda reminds me of the machine monsters in the Matrix! They needed a space where they can just grow and do their own thing for a couple of years, so we gave them a special bed separate from the rest of the garden. We probably won't get any produce out of them for at least 2 or 3 years.
We also worked on our orchard last weekend. We added more cherries, peaches, pears, apples and grapes and a few canes of raspberries too. These are some of the trees from last year--we only lost one pear during the winter and one got gnawed on by a vole but didn't die. There were a bunch of soldier bugs on the trees, which we thought were a bad sign but they are actually beneficial. After Pat planted the trees, he painted on a mixture of joint compound and ceiling paint to deter insects from crawling up the trunks.
Kinda reminds me of the machine monsters in the Matrix! They needed a space where they can just grow and do their own thing for a couple of years, so we gave them a special bed separate from the rest of the garden. We probably won't get any produce out of them for at least 2 or 3 years. 
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