Asparagus Crowns - Continuity Collection An early, medium and late variety, this collection has something for everyone! Why pay expensive prices for this luxury item when you can grow your own in the same area as a small shed! Full growing instructions provided. The collection contains 30 crowns (10 of each variety): Backlim - RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. This asparagus is a delicious flavour, good yields, and disease resistance. A late variety. Harvest April-June. Height 100-150cm (39-59); spread 50-60cm (20-24). Guelph Millennium - This is a late-season variety, bred in Canada. This asparagus plant is at its best in the UK during the month of June. Now considered to be the best late-season cultivar, its an All-Male hybrid, boasting excellent spear and head quality, combined with fantastic yield. Gijnlim - A consistent top performer in recent trials, out-yielding others by up to 25%. Its early too, giving the first succulent tasty spears in mid to late April and continuing to crop heavily until mid-June. It is an all-male hybrid, forming no seeds which means all its energies go into spear production. Height 100-150cm (39-59).
Asparagus Crowns - Twin Pack Two luxury delicious asparagus varieties! Mouth-watering asparagus tips are still considered something of a luxury vegetable, and the supermarkets certainly price them as such! So why not grow your own? Our Twin pack contains 20 crowns (10 of each variety): ‘Erasmus’ - Is an early-variety, with thick spears intense purple in colour. Great quality crops with superb flavour, the first 100% male asparagus. This asparagus crown is a one-year-old healthy, vigorous variety. English grown crowns, which are quick to establish, enabling you to pick 12 months from planting. 10 crowns plants a row 3.75m (12½) long. Harvesting April - May. ‘Guelph Millennium’- Is a late-season variety, bred in Canada. This asparagus plant is at its best in the UK during the month of June. Now considered to be the best late-season cultivar, its an All-Male hybrid, boasting excellent spear and head quality, combined with fantastic yield.