How is asparagus grown?
Posted by Mark Busse on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007Tags for this Article: asparagus, Vegetables
The other evening we were enjoying some delicious asparagus with dinner and realized that we had no idea how asparagus was grown? Does it hang on a bush? Grow in the ground like a potato? Nope. So we looked it up online and, not surprisingly, asparagus has its own website!
Apparently it is a member of the Lily family, with spears growing from as crown planted a foot deep in sandy soil during spring and early summer, and the spears can grow 10″ in a 24-hour period! And oddly, after harvesting is done the spears grow into ferns, which produce red berries and the food and nutrients necessary for a healthy and productive crop the next season.
The site even offers some opinions about why your urine smells so funky after eating asparagus. [photo by Maria]
Posted on May 30th, 2007
Andrea Busse says:
It has been proposed that only some people produce stinky pee after eating asparagus, but a study in the 80s proved that we all produce stinky pee. The difference is that some people are not able to smell the stinky pee.
I wonder who volunteered to be a part of the experiment to smell other peoples’ pee…
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1715705