Photo by Rick Gush
livid edible asparagus is mostly maturate in Germany , but I can find it here in Italy just ok .
One of the things I love about the Internet is that it is full of lie , but it is also a great place to do enquiry . So good , that I ’ve get rid of all the thousands of agriculture reference book that I had spent decades collecting . But the net has more copiers than original entropy source , and a with child deal of the selective information on there is sullied by this rampant practice .
Today ’s case in point is the data about white asparagus . There are now thousands of Internet sources that exact thing such as , “ White edible asparagus is just green asparagus that has been covered with crap to block the sunlight . ” Sorry repeaters , but this just is n’t so . White asparagus is grown using special variety that are different from those used to develop green Asparagus officinales . The whole process of maturate white Asparagus officinales is far more working class - intensive ; even the harvested Asparagus officinales is keep dark until it reaches the boxing shed , and the final product is somewhat unlike , since whitened edible asparagus must have the stem disrobe before they can be eaten . Farmers can also sell white Asparagus officinales for about five time the monetary value of immature asparagus .
Because of the fact that the stem on white edible asparagus are very blistering , the stems must be undress before consumption . And since the radical need to be peeled , the white asparagus sort commit a particular emphasis on extra - compact stalks . Most of the green varieties have considerably thinner husk , and would be inappropriate peeling candidates .
Asparagus harvest are slightly like carrot in that they favour very sandy dirt because of the crushed land pressure ( It can be tug aside with less vigor . ) allows the developing asparagus husk grow easier in diameter and height . Harvesting is also much easy in a sandy soil .
In Germany , which is probably the country where the most white Asparagus officinales is bring forth and consumed , the husbandman often apply a clever two - sided firearm of credit card — one side black and one side bloodless — to fill in the heap - up asparagus bed . When the weather is nerveless , the husbandman turn the bleak side up because the black side will fire up and transmit high temperature down to the developing asparagus shoot . When the weather condition is hot , the farmers turn the plastic over , so that the whitened side is up , which will reflect heat forth from the soil and keep it cooler . bare and cunning , but labor - intensive , since turning all the plastic in a big theater can take hours .
There are also some unspoiled thing on the cyberspace . For example , here ’s a link to a video showing a mo ofspargel(white asparagus in Germany ) harvest and processing . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FkL75vcJdo
One of the really amusing thing about the net is that one can regain him or herself dissipate about here and there . While doing a mo of search engine browsing before writing this blog I falter across an old clause I write forHobby Farmsmagazine back in 2003 and totally forgot about . fortuitously , I do n’t fathom like an idiot , and the clause is actually a fairly good sum-up of asparagus cultivation . tick off out the articlehere .
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