In an earlier post I commented that most of my asparagus germinated at the three week mark, as might be expected. I looked at my calendar again and realize it was only two weeks. The problem I am having is I didn't get a good enough light, nor get it low enough, and I am ending up with leggy asparagus. This picture shows where I have piled up some dirt around the stem to help support it. It really doesn't look too bad in this picture, it was really drooping prior to my efforts.
I decided my best course of action was to transplant. As you see in the picture above, I used a pretty deep container for my seed starting. Turns out, the root as all the way to the bottom. I didn't think asparagus had a deep root system, but I could be wrong. This shot of McDonald's cups is the result of my transplanting. I put the root pretty near the bottom of the cup to allow room to bury a decent amount of the leggy stem. I even buried some of the ferns. I am hopeful that this will help strengthen the plants and that the larger container will give it more room to properly root.
My concern is that this seems a lot like the corn I started last year that didn't end up doing well at all. Their wasn't a real root ball on most of these plants when I transplanted them, so I am afraid of shock too.
Fingers crossed, as this is a project I really want to turn out well.
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