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Description
- Perfect green and purple asparagus hybrid
- For juicy and crunchy purple spears
- Tender spears that you can enjoy raw
- Versatile variety to steam or sauté in the kitchen
- Less fibrous lignin for less stringy spears
- 5 crowns delivered to you in spring, ready for planting
Enjoy asparagus Burgundine, a new, purple variety for home-growing, bred to produce super tender spears. Every spear contains less lignin than other asparagus varieties, for spears that are less stringy.
The spears of asparagus Burgundine are tender, sweet, and palatable on harvest; you can even eat them raw. Alternatively, prepare versatile Asparagus Burgundine in the kitchen. Why not steam or sautée the spears with a little butter and serve with poached eggs.
We recommend you do not harvest spears in the first year, and instead, you let them establish. They will put down a good set of roots to support healthy spears for harvesting in big numbers from the second and subsequent years.
Also available as 10 crowns - click here to view.
Crown Age and Bed Establishment
These crowns are 1 year old and will be in their 2nd year as you plant them this spring. Usually, an asparagus bed takes 3 years to start to be productive if planted with crowns. Best not to harvest any spears in year 1 and maybe 2. If in year 2 there are a lot of spears then the bed is productive, if only a handful, do not cut them and leave them in the ground. The reason for doing this is the energy of the plant needs to be focussed on increasing root volume and getting established, rather than energy into spear production. If you keep cutting the spears the plant will naturally want to produce more, rather than producing roots. This will in the long term produce a stronger plant and will produce heavier crops in subsequent seasons.
Growing Calendar
Delivery
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*Orders to Northern Ireland have an automatic additional £3.00 delivery surcharge applied at checkout.
| Order Type | Delivery Charge | Delivery Charge |
| Seed only order | £2.99 | If you purchase any other items you'll be charged the standard delivery rate of £5.99 |
| Plants, bulbs & gardening accessories | £4.95 | If we need to split your order into separate deliveries we'll only charge one delivery fee |
| Extra large or long plants & heavy items | £9.99 | These are clearly displayed at check-out |
| Compost (and any other large or heavy items) | £4.95 | These items are subject to a delivery multiplier where orders containing 3 or 4 items will be subject to an additional £4.95 for every further 2 items added. This is automatically applied at check-out:
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