Oh believe me, we talk about it regularly. We would have to create the right spot since asparagus likes it a bit boggy and mostly shady...and here on the granite ridge, it is hard to create.
I worked a flood control job in San Diego, right in the bottom of the Tijuana River which crosses the border. My little redi mix concrete plant was set up in the middle of a huge asparagus farm. All sand, only about 3 miles from the Pacific. I don't ever recall seeing them irrigate. Watch the harvest crews make their very predictable path through the fields :rolleyes: The day before they get to our area go out and fill a couple shopping bags full :rolleyes:. Not cut off underground like you get at the market. Just break it off with your hand and leave all that woody stuff in the ground :D Sooooo good. The stuff just grows like grass. Repopulates on it's own, but it's 2 or 3 years before it gets productive. We took the skip loader and cleared a pad for the plant in the middle of the field 3 acres worth just pushed up in a pile.