Stalking the wild asparagus
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#2Vern what state are you in?
I used to find it this time of year when we lived in VA.
I used to find it this time of year when we lived in VA.
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#3I'm in Southern Illinois. Used to find it in Western Kentucky and Missouri. Love the stuff.
Vern
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#4I've had a tougher time finding it in New England. Maybe have to go out late summer/early fall and look for the fronds around old homesteads.
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#5Another few weeks to go here and then I will begin to hunt. Wild Asparagus served with elk loin and topped with a sauce Bercy made with morel puree instead of demi-glace. I am HUNGRY!
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#7Vern, what sort of habitat does Asparagus grow in there? I have only encountered it here in moist, sandy soil on the edge of a hot, semi-desert river bed.
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#8I found this bunch along an old fence row thru a pasture. It was on a hillside in a clayish soil. I have found it in creek bottoms to hillsides. Usually close to a fence or old road close to an old homestead. But always in grassy areas.
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#9I remember that book, Stalking the Wild Asparagus, by Euell Gibbons. I used to hunt for it this time of year when I was in college, but I never found any.
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#10Used to when I lived in Western NY, but don't believe that we have any in Utah. BUT, we do have burdock shoots :-)
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#11I literally lived on wild asparagus one spring, camped out upstream 25 miles from Moab. 1975. Tons of it. Old hippie days, living in my VW van. Would catch catfish, gather asparagus, soak and cook beans, roll my own tortillas, and occassionaly gather up my nickels and quarters for a $2.00 pitcher of 3.2 Coors, in town, that tasted like champagne at the time. I was REALLY broke.NewUtahCaneAngler wrote:Used to when I lived in Western NY, but don't believe that we have any in Utah. BUT, we do have burdock shoots :-)
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There's asparagus in Utah.
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#12SE Va. Salt marsh country. I drove down there a couple years ago and could not get through on an old neighbor’s road because the now normal tide had the roads flooded out. As a kid in the 50s I would walk the several miles to a friend’s house. In the spring the firebugs were busy and along the roadside ditches one could always find asparagus which was the first thing to grow amongst the blackened burned grasses. With the contrast easy to find, even for a hunter/gather klutz like me,
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#13I'm starved after reading that.snorider wrote:Another few weeks to go here and then I will begin to hunt. Wild Asparagus served with elk loin and topped with a sauce Bercy made with morel puree instead of demi-glace. I am HUNGRY!
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#14I know of one patch but so does everyone else in the area. Gotta be first!
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#15When I was a kid in Ohio, every year around Mother's Day, we would walk along the railroad tracks and the trails in the woods picking wild asparagus and morels. Mom would french fry the asparagus. Wish I had that recipe now.
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#16Up here, southwestern Quebec near the NYS border, fiddlehead ferns (wild asparagus are in season now.
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#17We have a patch of asparagus (16ft x 6ft) that is over 100 years old. We eat, freeze some and after a while we get so many cuttings eventually my wife gives a bunch a way at work. When it gets warm in early May with decent rainfall you can almost sit out there and watch the stalks grow. When our kids were young they enjoyed it too, but got to a point each season saying: "Mom, we are not having asparagus again!"
Eventually each year we let it let in grow and go to seed for the next Spring. Each Spring I cut the old stalks and repeat.
My wife and I both love asparagus, but not store bought.
John
Eventually each year we let it let in grow and go to seed for the next Spring. Each Spring I cut the old stalks and repeat.
My wife and I both love asparagus, but not store bought.
John