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Aspara Buddies – your social media resource for great tasting, healthy asparagus!
For all things asparagus – from the different varieties of asparagus to the best time to plant and cultivate, and of course, how to make delicious recipes with your asparagus spears - Aspara Buddies is your social media resource for this tasty, healthy food.
We’re Aspara Buddies, a specialist team of asparagus growers and gardeners, and we’re passionate about growing, cultivating, preparing, cooking and eating asparagus.
Asparagus Man (aka Jamie Petchell) is an asparagus fanatic and he wants you to share your ideas with us so that we can enjoy cultivating tips, recipe ideas and suggestions - to help everyone make the very best of asparagus, a healthy, immune-boosting food.
There’s nothing quite like cooking freshly cut asparagus straight from the ground. This page is going to feature all kinds of advice and information about asparagus – everything from gardening and growing tips to recipes and what to do with your surplus crops.
Asparagus doesn’t just taste great – it’s versatile, healthy and nutritious.
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What are we doing?!
It might wonder you what AsparaBuddies do once the asparagus season has started. Of course, we ought to be picking spears on our trial field while ... [ more ]
04/05/2012
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The Asparagus Times will come!!
Please do not get angry with AsparaBuddies. I know it is supposed to be British asparagus season but still, you’re stuck to Peruvian asparagus. ... [ more ]
08/05/2012
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Our Address is:c/o Hargreaves Plants
Cowpers Gate
Spalding
PE12 9BS
Cowpers Gate
Spalding
PE12 9BS
Deliciously healthy recipe ideas with asparagus
Did you know that different varieties of asparagus have different flavours? 
We know all about the goodness of asparagus and how delicious it tastes, but we want to know what you do
with it.
What healthy meal solutions do you prepare? Do your children enjoy eating it? Do you grow your own and do your children enjoy planting and cultivating their own asparagus spears. How can we get our children involved in growing these fantastic crops?
Do you have some great recipe and healthy meal ideas that you’d like to share with us? Please send them in and Aspara Buddies will make sure they’re featured here, along with hints and tips about growing and cultivating these fantastic crops.
We’re going to have some great resources about nutrition, soil types, the latest developments in growing these crops and the best varieties to eat.
Did you know … that the compound in asparagus that causes the odour in urine after you’ve eaten it is called methylmercaptan, a sulphur-containing derivative of the amino acid, methionine?
Who is Asparagusman?
“My ambition is to cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats!”
“I am Asparagusman, aka Jamie Petchell. I love everything to do with 
asparagus – from breeding, planting, cultivating, harvesting – and ultimately eating!
asparagus – from breeding, planting, cultivating, harvesting – and ultimately eating!I graduated in horticulture and went on to implement what has been said is the world’s largest asparagus variety trials, where I looked at almost 300 individual varieties and selections from 17 countries and 9 asparagus breeders.”
Asparagusman and the Aspara Buddies want to create a rich resource of information about growing, planting and cooking asparagus. Ask your questions here and give us your hints, tips and facts for growing - and cooking - asparagus.
Want to grow your own asparagus? Let Aspara Buddies help.
Agronomy is the science of producing and using plants for food. It encompasses
ways of plant breeding that helps us to increase crop yields and improve the nutritional value of crops.
ways of plant breeding that helps us to increase crop yields and improve the nutritional value of crops. We are experienced growers and gardeners of asparagus - and we’re here to give you hints, tips and lots of advice about how to grow your own crops.
• When should you start growing and how?
• What kind of soil gives the best yield?
• Do you know the best time to feed and the right time to cut?
• What varieties are there and what is the difference in flavour?
• How can we get our kids more involved in growing this delicious food?
• What can you do with your surplus crops?
• Would information about growing cycles or disease control be useful?
Contact us here or on Facebook and Tweet us with your questions. We’d love you to share your ideas with us!
Aspara Buddies
07920 208955
