Shops have "new season UK asparagus" from Wye valley. How is this
possible?
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Mike... . . . .

In message , Mike.....
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Shops have "new season UK asparagus" from Wye valley. How is this
possible?

Good Lord! Fooled it into thinking it is May?
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June Hughes

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Janet writes
In article ,
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Shops have "new season UK asparagus" from Wye valley. How is this
possible?

I notice the grower is carefully not mentioning the full details beyond,
it's about years of research/investment into growing methods and
different varieties from around the world.

The secrecy is hardly surprising given the goldmine it promises to be
for him and M and S who bought his whole crop.


Janet.

It isn't the same though, is it, as looking forward to the short
asparagus season and then filling your boots with it? Every day for a
month is enough for me. I wonder if it will taste as good as 'normal'
asparagus? the stuff that is imported from Peru certainly doesn't taste
as good.
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June Hughes

On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:59:23 +0100, June Hughes
wrote:

They were talking to the grower this morning on Radio 4, he said about
leaving the fronds then cutting back, I thought he said in August, I
suspect if you used a later variety it would be later than an early
one, No asparagus so I can't experiment

Thanks Dave. I appreciate that. I didn't hear it on Today, so assume it
must have been the farming programme and we only listen to that when our
son has to be out before the crack of dawn.


Was on BBC breakfast at 8.20
They showed a pic of the place before that though.
Didn't watch it.
Do they have it on iplayer?
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In message , mogga
writes
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:59:23 +0100, June Hughes
wrote:

They were talking to the grower this morning on Radio 4, he said about
leaving the fronds then cutting back, I thought he said in August, I
suspect if you used a later variety it would be later than an early
one, No asparagus so I can't experiment

Thanks Dave. I appreciate that. I didn't hear it on Today, so assume it
must have been the farming programme and we only listen to that when our
son has to be out before the crack of dawn.


Was on BBC breakfast at 8.20
They showed a pic of the place before that though.
Didn't watch it.
Do they have it on iplayer?

Possibly. I shall have a look this evening. Thanks.
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June Hughes

my mother and sister grow it, the season is all summer long if you treat it
properly, it is very labor intensive according to them, my mother/sister
have three rows, it takes a while for it to produce, so its on a rotating
system so there is always one row producing well, there are several
varieties, and according to them, male and femal stalks... i am only
repeating what they have told me, as i hav a black thumb and grow nothing,
Lee
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Shops have "new season UK asparagus" from Wye valley. How is this
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This is a bizarre world! I'm not sure who to believe about climate change what with all the vested interests but this week in Norfolk has been more like mid July than the beginning of october!

On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 14:18:10 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2011-10-03 12:48:29 +0100, Dave Hill said:

On Oct 3, 12:23*pm, June Hughes wrote:
snip

Possibly but it says 'harvest in August' and this is October, although
of course a very unusual one.
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June Hughes

They were talking to the grower this morning on Radio 4, he said about
leaving the fronds then cutting back, I thought he said in August, I
suspect if you used a later variety it would be later than an early
one, No asparagus so I can't experiment

http://plana.marksandspencer.com/we-...s/chinn-family


It says he grows rhubarb for them too.

There is rhubarb in Morrisons at the moment - is it normally available
now?
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Is it home produced or imported? We could have early spring rhubarb from the southern hemisphere already.

It is normally not advised to eat late season home-grwon rhubarb because the oxalic acid increases later in the season. Also you want the energy to go back down into the roots at this time. But professional rhubarb growers grow it indoors, so maybe they can hold it dormant in some way and then get it to grow freshly out of season. There are techniques for making plants grow out of season. Apparently many strawberry plants are deliberately overwintered in Argentina over the local winter, so that they can be shipped out and put into production for out-of-season strawberries in southern Spain. Or maybe it can be shipped in from odd parts of the world - I had freshly picked local strawberries in the highlands of SE Asia in January once (not in a country where they would be flying in deliberately chilled plants from Arg either), and they were very good, tasted very like English strawberries.

"mogga" wrote in message ...

On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 14:18:10 +0100, Sacha wrote:

http://plana.marksandspencer.com/we-...s/chinn-family


It says he grows rhubarb for them too.

There is rhubarb in Morrisons at the moment - is it normally available
now?

It may depend on the rhubarb variety. I picked 4kg of v. Victoria on 24th
Sept. The wasps were showing an interest, so pretty much the 'last
knockings.' OT but it's now bubbling away in 2 demijohns courtesy of that
River Cottage chappie:-
http://preview.tinyurl.com/4529cwm