{"id":37,"date":"2015-01-25T20:23:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T20:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maplegroveorchard.com\/wordpress\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=37"},"modified":"2025-12-20T04:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:39:49","slug":"asparagus","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"http:\/\/18.216.204.118\/wordpress\/?portfolio=asparagus","title":{"rendered":"Asparagus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Asparagus is easily grown in any soil from sandy to heavy clay as long as it is well drained. Space the crowns 12&#8243; apart in rows 8&#8243; deep and 30&#8243; &#8211; 36&#8243; apart, and the second spring after planting, you can begin a light harvest.\u00a0 Read our planting guide for detailed planting instructions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong> Jersey Giant &#8211;<\/strong> has been a standard in asparagus production for many years. Giant produces large spears of superb quality, and has very high productivity, since plants are predominantly male.\u00a0 This variety has better disease resistance than most varieties, and comes into production sooner than most other asparagus. This strong grower can often be picked lightly the spring after planting.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Sold in bundles of 25 huge roots for $28.00, or 100 roots for $105.00<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asparagus is easily grown in any soil from sandy to heavy clay as long as it is well drained. Space the crowns 12&#8243; apart in rows 8&#8243; deep and 30&#8243; &#8211; 36&#8243; apart, and the second spring after planting, you can begin a light harvest.\u00a0 Read our planting guide for detailed planting instructions.\u00a0 Jersey Giant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"portfolio-type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/18.216.204.118\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/18.216.204.118\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/18.216.204.118\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/18.216.204.118\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/18.216.204.118\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/18.216.204.118\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/18.216.204.118\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio-type&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}