Growing Asparagus from Seed

My family and I really enjoy our asparagus, so we are working on establishing another raised bed to expand them into. We've done some crown splitting, but it's a lot of hassle and there is always a chance that you might damage the existing crowns or reduce the next year's harvest, so this year we are planting seeds that our original bed produced. The planting footage I took for this video is from the beginning of December last year before the ground froze, and the germination footage is from the middle of March this year.

[garrettpeters]

I’m impressed to see how well these came up planting directly in the bed. I definitely want to try this! 👍🏼👍🏼🌱

[jjorangeswirl]

My boys say that is really cool! And thanks for posting yummy videos about food. 😂

[ImmaTwoPops]

Good video, can I plant asparagus seeds in the spring?

[barsboozebullets]

Thanks for the video. I've seen people very meticulously collect the "berries" then dry them, split them, collect seeds, plant in starter trays, germinate, transplant to larger pots, then transplant to the garden... a big process. Am I seeing right that you got the berries from existing asparagus and just tossed those in the trench?

[skdietschXOXO]

From what I can tell you just harvested the berries that had the seeds right into the ground without taking them out of their casing or doing any drying. Is that correct? I'd hate to waste time going through all that if it's not necessary. And you did this in the fall/winter?