>This is how much of the asparagus is grown around here.

(That’d be “Spargel”, the blanched stuff that you have to peel, as opposed to the green stuff that you don’t).

They cover the mounds with plastic sheeting that’s black on one side (to absorb the sun’s energy and warm the soil) and white on the other (to reflect the sun’s rays and regulate the growth) and they switch them around as needed.

Too much messing around with Nature for my liking.

We’ll stick with Lydia Bugner, thanks all the same..

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