posted 5 years ago
Hugels will settle the most within the first two years of building them, that's because the soil and other components are filling in spaces.
Once that initial settling is past, plant away, just remember that you will most likely get to add soil ontop of your asparagus crowns as this secondary settling occurs.
Asparagus is not nearly as fragile as many people think, I've seen it growing wild, in the wild and I assure you, "weeds" were around those plants as was grass.
I did some research with people that lived in the area and they said they didn't know where the asparagus would have come from and they had all lived there for over 50 years.
One gentleman said that the field I found it in had been pasture since he was a young boy (he was over 80), he didn't ever remember the asparagus not being there. (it turned out he was the only one who picked spears from that large patch)
Redhawk