Update on asparagus
Plump white asparagus from the Augsburg market.
In an earlier post, I wrote that the German asparagus season ends on 17 June. Now I know why.
My dear friend Malou, who lives in Ghent Belgium and whose father raised asparagus, has explained that growers always stop cutting new spears at that time so the plants have a chance to recover/regenerate for the next season.
Her father tended 3000 plants, so he knew his stuff. Her brother grows it now. Malou also said that Belgium’s cutoff date is a little later than Germany’s—23 June. So I enjoyed some white asparagus yesterday. Am not expecting to indulge in it again until 2012.
Where to next? 
How curious! As I still struggle to put a created world onto the page, it’s easy to forget the nuances of creation such as this: the little details that are so important in one life have an unseen impact on others.
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Thanks for reminding me about this post and the importance of little details.
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