Ready your spears
Feb 05, 2020
3 minutes
Mark Diacono
ENTIRELY appropriately, I start looking for the first asparagus to push through the soil on April Fools’ Day. I’m usually a good fortnight early, but still, what have we if not hope? At some point, when spring crosses a happy threshold, the spears drive skyward, often appearing overnight. I’ve seen a half-brick lifted by this push into the light.
It is, of course, all driven by sex: the stems are topped with flower
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