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Depending on how deep you planted and how much you covered them it and well they are kept watered and how much nutrients are available will be anywhere from 3-6 weeks although it can take longer. See the discussion about this further down the page title newly planted asparagus for more info and details.
Dave
I put some crowns in 10 days ago and out of 45 more than 30 have come up. I ,initially, made the mistake of putting them in upside down but went in and righted crowns. The article I followed for planting asparagus said they should begin to pop up in about 1 week. Paul
Here is a link that might be useful: Grow Asparagus
This post was edited by victory_tea2085 on Sun, May 12, 13 at 9:24
My ornamentals did that too before I moved them to their permanent outdoor containers that I am still bringing in at night because of too low overnight temps. I now have one tiny little pepper growing and a ton more blooms. I think they will be just fine if planted out soon.
My Serrano peppers are making peppers too. One is almost 2" long already. I plant to thin the load when they go outside. At this point in their growth cycle, you want them to put their energy into growing big and healthy.
As a side note - I bought a lemon tree one year - it was about 6" high, made flowers, actually produced a lemon, and then promptly died (probably of exhaustion)
IMO, burlap is not an effective weed control cover.
Another thing , probably won't decompose for a long time.
use mulch(whenever I can), that will eventally become a soil improver. I like free stuff like tree leavrs, pine needles, wheat straw. if you have small garden(,Under 100 sqr.ft), you can just enjoy weedind a few minutes a day and cultivate the soill. Weeding is essential in the first half of the season when your plant are small and weeds compete with them for nutrients. After that small weeds should not be a problem. actually some of it can be benefitial.
Still looking for thought on germinating under burlap...Thanks for the idea of cutting crosses and pinning flaps back. And the other thoughts.Im committed to the burlap coffee bags this year...i find find a layer of two is excellent and any weeds are weak.
Not worried about too much burlap. Do others have thought on my main question? o others?
I overwinter peppers routinely. Here in central Texas, it's just a matter of covering them outside. Don't have to bring them inside. (Well, except for a very rare very hard freeze.) But peppers are, for real, perennials. As noted, you have a big head start. I get my first fruit of the spring season in April, and actually get a few stragglers before that.
Just leave it as it is until you plant it outside and then prune any dead limbs on it. I have a birdseye pepper plant that I have been growing for about 10 years and I never do anything to it other than trim it back everyonce in awhile when it gets too big. It will freeze back to the ground some years but it comes back and grows fine. Right now the plant is taller than I am.
Uncover them. You start asparagus by digging a trench, experts have tested different planting depths lately and have found that 5-6 inches deep is ideal. They will do fine if planted deeper.
But you start with a trench, loosen the soil of the trench, and spread the crowns on top of the losened soil in the bottom, then you fill in the thrench with just 2 inches of soil. The crowns you have don't yet have the energy needed to push spears through 8 inches of soil, so you fill it in slowly as the spears grow.
I'd remove some dirt from the top of them, but be careful not to damage what's growing... You should see emergence with what you've got, it will just take new crowns a while to sprout.
Make sure you fertilize them lightly but constantly this year, don't let the brand new plants want for anything.
The idea behind filling in the trench is not to stress the plants, to make them spend every ounce of energy they have in getting ferns up after a fresh transplant.
Are they growing at an angle because I laid the crowns on their side,or because I put too much dirt on them?
Yes. plant with the crown straight up and the roots spread out in a circle around it. Then cover with just enough soil to cover until the sprout and then fill in the trench.
Dave
Here is a link that might be useful: How to pics
I can't tell what is wrong by the photos. The bottom leaves turn yellow when they need fertilizer. With all of that rain they might need to be refertilized.
Judging from the color of the new growth, the plants are taking up plenty of nitrogen and are poised to make vigorous growth when they get warm sun.
The older leaves are stressed and probably incubating early blight, so I would go ahead and clip them off. A leaf with more than 30 percent of its photosynthetic capacity offline is not worth keeping. I would also mulch with something to help keep the leaves dry -- plastic or cloth if it keeps raining, grass clippings or rotting wood chips when the rain stops. The mulch will also encourage more shallow roots to grow, which will serve the plants well in the long run.