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Lay two plants next to each other — uses, risks, and whether either has a grow guide.
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Asparagus
Asparagus officinalis
A patient perennial — you wait two years, then eat the spears for a month each spring for twenty more.
Flavor
Green, a little sulfur, grassy-sweet. White spears are the same plant, blanched under a mound.
Symptoms
fatigue, constipation
In favor
A twenty-year bed
Against
Two years of waiting
Days to harvest
Two years to a first real cutting; then every spring
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