Easy Companion-Planted Asparagus and Strawberries (Spring of Season 4)

Just a quick spring update about our asparagus and strawberries that we companion-planted in a single Ruth Stout style (hay only) garden bed. We originally planted the asparagus and strawberry crowns in 2019, but replaced the strawberries with transplants in 2020.

Previous videos:

Companion Planting Asparagus and Strawberries (No-till, Ruth Stout)

"No-till" Asparagus and Strawberry Update (end of second season)

[VastCNC]

You now have hair long enough for a bun. Your permaculture journey has leveled up.

[selinamularz]

I ended up with mostly female asparagus plants from the crowns I bought last year, and I decided to just leave them since I'm not hurting for space. I let them go natural last fall and the seeds ended up all over. I now have dozens of tiny asparagus seedlings coming up all over the entire area lol.

[homestead]

This combination is actually my favorite vegetable bed in my garden. My strawberries are doing amazingly well, at least a handful a day, and the asparagus are doing great. I leave the ferns alone until they dry out. Mine are expanding but maybe it’s because I let it go to seed

[calabogierusticfarmmarket]

Hi guys Mike here from Calabogie Rustic Farm ( Calabogie Ont.) We have started a small permaculture market garden here and today is the day we will be receiving some more of our seedling plants. Just so happens that it's both asparagus and strawberries. I know where i want to put the asparagus but I've been labouring over where to plant the strawberries. I now have the solution thanks. I'll update you on the progress.

[TheEydaos]

I grow in raised beds. The asparagus and strawberry companion planting worked for us, but in a raised bed with multiple rows of both plants, the strawberries were always damp in the center. We had a lot of rotten berries. I dug and thinned the strawberries this year. I think we’ll find a new home for those and work on a new plant for the asparagus…

[ericdee]

i dont have any real facts to back this up, but I like to leave 1 asparagus shoot to grow and fern while harvesting the rest. I feel like it will keep the root system healthy.

[rebeccajoensson]

I have been waiting for this update. I planted strawberries and asparagus together last year after seeing your video!

[claudiaw]

Asparagus and strawberries -- two of my favourites! Thanks for the update. It's great that you can feast on the wild asparagus while you patiently wait for your domestic crops get to the point where you can harvest them :-)

[dogslobbergardens]

Asparagus is one of those things I've been putting off forever, for no good reason. If I'd planted some four years ago I'd have been enjoying it for a while now.
TBF we've moved since then so I'd have had to start all over anyway, ho ho!

[gathercreatelivewithleslie]

I grew up for a time at a house that had a huge strawberry and asparagus garden, that was over forty years ago. I loved going out and getting them and this actually was probably why I love to garden in my fifties. They were is a semi shaded area that was at least 300 square feet. I have planted and been able to harvest for the first time this year my own asparagus and will be planting in my strawberries this year, I did a raised bed because we're in the mountains and the beds warm up faster. I will be covering them with alfalfa soon and a small hoop and netting because of wild animals. I initially started with wood chips and will be using hay, it's been a challenge to get ahold of some this year. I started my onions late but will be using the majority for scallions.

[KOKO-uuyd]

I'm just starting to try and grow in earnest. Again. 😅 I keep having fabulous success with transplants and "volunteers" that are local - so wild strawberries, multiple volunteer mulberry trees (For 13 years or so I let a section of my property "go wild" and have been loving much of the results). I also have a crab apple tree that first produced last year. Not many, but looking good for baking etc maybe. Raspberries, and I'm currently working with blackberries (hope they take well). However, anything I've cultivated from seed .... 😵


I'm gonna backtrack and watch some of your vids. I hope I'll learn much from you 👍
I'm r we're ally interested in "companion planting" and other ways to reduce monoculture rows (probably wrong term, but hopefully you get the point😂) I also want to understand enough that resources that are common but problematic, like peat, I can begin to understand how to try for those RESULTS, but with locally sourced resources and tools.

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

[danc]

My patch is always 2-4 weeks early. Vs the wild asparagus in my area. Grown from seed I harvested from wild type.

[ebybeehoney]

I watched your companion planting video and did something similar in my backyard. The asparagus grew like mad (6 foot ferns) the first 2 years - I think it liked my wet yard. But I made the mistake of planting that tall ferny weedy-looking plant too close to my back patio. I didn't mind the strawberries there because they don't grow so tall.

So early this spring I moved some of them - and that was a beast of a job. But even the transplants are shooting up and are growing well. I'm harvesting from plants I didn't move, just incase I had to start over. But I think it will work fine. Lesson learned - asparagus like wet. At least in my yard. And strawberries will fill in the holes well enough! Can't go wrong with more berries.

[PeachyBeanInc]

This made my laugh as I've been checking my (first time) transplants daily. Today was the first day I saw a little spear poking through the soil as well and I was so excited to see it :)

[harveyhaines]

We planted our asparagus and strawberries last year, it was really hard not to eat any of the big stalks that came up all through the summer! We are really looking forward to seeing how it comes along this season. You folks have been a huge help in teaching us to be better in our garden and to our planet!

[thyxy]

Hey awsome video, and for the asparagus i don't know if it's a fact or a myth but as of my knowledge asparagus tend to shoot spears right after a couple days of rain. So maybe because you water your garden the asparagus speared up earlyer

[justintr]

Rocking the "garden guru" look with the long hair, I see!

[jeshurunfarm]

Nice change of the video type.
Respect from Africa.

[cleonawallace]

I haven't started growing any cultivated asparagus yet, partly due to the effort it seems to take to start, so it's great to see that you can do it without all the amendments and digging! We are based in Italy and we have TONS of wild asparagus in our woods. Sadly we have so much work to do on our land we rarely have time to go wandering, and up to this year foragers seem to get all the wild spears from our land when we're not there. But my understanding is that the new spears can pop up even around 50cm to a meter from the mother plants, so it's worth looking in the whole area for new ones.

[LifeIsMessyImLearningAsIGrow]

Thank you for sharing g this video. I’m a YouTube gardener too trying to learn as much as I can about companion planting. That’s how I found your channel. Im so happy I did because your channel has so much to offer. I hope we can learn from each other as we grow our gardens and our channels! Happy Planting!