print email comment close Asparagus URL: http://urbanext.illinois.edu/veggies/asparagus1.html Description: Growing instructions for asparagus, "one of the first vegetables ready to harvest in the spring." Covers planting, care, harvesting, problems (asparagus beetle and asparagus rust), selection and storage, preparation and serving, and preservation. From the University of Illinois Extension. Publisher: University of Illinois Extension Library of Congress Subject Headings: Asparagus Vegetable gardening LII Database Information: Record 21318 created by Jennifer English on 04/24/2006 Last modification on 09/14/2009 Published: 04/27/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21318