applestar wrote:I missed harvesting a really thick spear of Purple Passion asparagus so I let it grow. It grew into a huge stalk and is now full of green berries.
I'll probably let them fully ripen and see what happens....
While I am more fond of the countless volunteers of Mary Washington, than purple cultivars, please let me encourage you to let seed ripen collect it and plant it to either cold frame (to cold stratify) or dry seed and plant in spring. either way it'll grow.
Call me John Chapman if you must, but asparagus makes a very large crown that only a tiny fraction of which is ever collected from nursery grown crowns.
IMO selling crowns is a good business for the nurseryman, and rather less so for the home gardener.
I have loved asparagus since the fifties, and grown nursery grown crowns and from seed enough times, to be more comfortable with my seed money in my pocket, than in the nurserymans pocket...