Using Peruvian Seabird Guano to optimize the growth and quality of Asparagus plants
Peruvian Seabird Guano is a great natural fertilizer to use when growing asparagus plants. The high Nitrogen content of this natural organic fertilizer is perfect for encouraging strong, healthy growth and enhanced flavor in this perennial plant. It is best used by distributing 1 to 2 cups of the seabird guano around the area where the shoots are emerging in early spring. As it rains the pellets will gradually release their nutrients into the soil and encourage vigorous growth. Applying Seabird Guano along with an organic mulch such as compost or leaves and will ensure that your asparagus patch will increase in quality each year. Asparagus is a very heavy user of nitrogen so the readily available nitrogen along with the beneficial soil organisms Seabird Guano provides helps the plant reach its full potential. A healthy asparagus patch can produce it’s healthy shoots for over 20 years if properly harvested and maintained. The key’s to keeping it producing at it’s best are a healthy organic soil, a heavy application of organic mulch, proper fertilization and a harvesting period that does not last much longer then early to mid June. Not overly extending the harvesting period helps the plant to produce and store the nutrients in the plants roots which will produce the crop for the following year.
