Male / female asparagus info
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Comments (4)First to Cougiecat; Hold on there! Assume nothing yet, especially that these recommendations for all-male varieties are lies. It ain't so! All the male Jersey varieties produce tiny bell-shaped flowers. This doesn't mean they're female and will produce the dreaded berries. This season, just observe. I'll bet you'll see no females, or very few. BTW, honey bees love those little flowers. :-) To thomis and josie, I have to ask...where did you buy your "Jersey all-male" crowns? From Jersey Asparagus Farms directly, or from a retailer who claimed they were an all male Jersey crown? I suspect the latter. I have no absolutely no relationship with JAF's, but I happen to know they have very strict controls in place and the emergence of female plants in the ratios you claim would never happen with crowns supplied directly from them. If you speak with them, they'll readily admit that an errant bee will cause them an average of 2% error, but never, ever, in the ratios you have experienced. Now, to bobboberan: I loved your post! Keep up keeping up with the 'gus bed! You'll be enjoying yours before long. I picked enough to share with 2 families yesterday, again to share with my daughter's family today, and lots for my sweetie and me to have for the next day or two. And, BTW, these are all-male Jersey Knights...not a female among them!! :-) Regards and best luck to all, Hal...See MoreMale Asparagus with berries
Comments (3)The Jersey Hybrids are supposed to be all-male without any culling necessary. So you could plant a whole row of asparagus and have all male plants. I'm not sure, but I think "all male" means like 90%. So 1 or 2 out of 10 would be about right, that is, if my 90% statement is correct. For once, it's the male plant that produces more food. The female plants spend alot of energy making seeds. The male plants just make little pollen bags. This leaves the males with alot more energy to produce lovely, fat, tender asparagus spears for you. Additionally, the female plants drop seeds which can become established and overcrowd the asparagus patch. I have read at least two authors claim that this is the typical demise of commercial asparagus patches forcing replanting....See Moreonline photos of Male/Female holly blooms
Comments (2)holly info Here is a link that might be useful: holly info...See MoreMale and Female Cats- Attraction Question?
Comments (10)Let me think... We are all volunteers, and it seems like there are quite a few of us in Tampa Let me search for some info I volunteer once a month at the event called SpayDay. The whole event is run by volunteers: vets, vets techs, etc. People rent out traps, trap cats in their yards, etc - price is between 25 and 10, depending on grants available. If no grants are available, it is 25. http://www.spayday.actampa.org/ Here is some info on FCP at HSTB http://dogood.tampabay.com/nonprofits/humane-society-of-tampa-b-ay/programs/feral-cat-program Even more good info on HSTB program http://www.humanesocietytampa.org/spay-neuter/feral-free-roaming-cats/ It all boils down to people, however, willing to take their time, spend a bit of money and get cats they feed fixed. I routinely get emails/calls from people asking for help to do TNR - especially now, as in Florida, kitten season is coming up. My friend and I often help trap. We recover the cats for one or two days and release them back. My friend maintains 4 colonies - she feeds and waters every day, about 50-60 cats. All fixed, and a new cat that shows up get S/N At 10 per cat, as it is right now, it is not too hard to do TNR financially. People donate, and whenever we are tight on money (my friend and I), HSTB helps out - they allocate donations for feral cats to help out trappers who do a lot of trapping (we did 12 last weekend!) The most knowledgeable person is Frank Hamilton - he is a retired economics professor, who now runs ACT clinic with his wife. Wealth of info - he goes to different feral cat conferences, knows all the literature there is to read about it...If anyone needs more info, I can get you his email address OR, you can contact ACT clinic, ATTN: Frank Hamilton http://www.actampa.org/...See MoreFrozeBudd_z3/4
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