moving old asparagus plants
 

my parents are moving to a retirement apt. and we have a large almost 60 year patch of 'gus. It still produces and was started from seed before being moved to town. Would it be worthwhile to transplant - putting sentiment aside. Select the biggest plants and leave the rest? I will also be moving rhubarb. Both have been organic for all these years. Now if I could just figure out how to move the grape vines, I'd be happy..they are fantastic. Any thoughts welcome - piegirl

Grapes
 

piegirl;
You can take some cuttings from those grapes and root them. Take a 'stick' of about four nodes from dormant one year growth and stick two of them in the ground; make sure that you know the growing direction. That is, the two that are in the ground should be the base of what you cut from the vine. Do about twice or three times as many as you want because they don't always root. Using Rootone or some other synthethic rooting harmone would probably help.

DrR

After reading that asparagus does not like to be moved, we tried it anyway. Nothing ventured, etc. The plants all survived the ten foot trip. Now to see if any sprouts come up in the spring. What we had were about ten plants that had been where they were for 50 years or more and were in the wrong spot.

Its been a year now, did they send up spears in spring? I`m curious to find out as i have young plants that i planted in the wrong spot and have been slowly replacing with seed grown ones!
Richard

Sadly, I was unable to move any of the asparagus - just too early in the season without digging up 40 ft. Did move rhubarb and parts survived. Right after digging all the plants etc I wanted, we had serious, zero degree week in late March/early April 07. Took down everything - no iris, no lillies, fruit trees, strawberries, etc. Piegirl

Grape airlayers well. Why dig old asparagus crowns when they set seed just fine?