 In this video I'm going to show you how I set up my asparagus bed. Quick background, we used to have an allotment here in the United Kingdom, but we decided that we were going to focus on growing our vegetables in the home instead and we had to leave our established asparagus bed and set up a new one at home. So we ordered these from crockerstock.co.uk and this is a variety called conover's colossal and you get them as a bare root just like that and they're very simple to set up and once you set them up you can't really harvest them for the first two years or so but then after that you've got a permanent bed that's set up for probably a good 20 to 25 years of harvesting loads of asparagus so you can see these ones are pretty much ready to go and they do have some of the plant already beginning to sprout from the roots. The plants come in packs of three so I ordered two packs which is a total of six and that is my square raised bed on which I'm going to be planting them so I've already been making sure that weeds were not growing on it and this is sort of late winter that I was planting these also I covered the ground over with a weed suppressant membrane which allows moisture through but it denies weeds the light that they need in order to thrive and so this was just ready for the asparagus when it came through and the idea is that you then just plant it up and you leave it be and asparagus is a very low maintenance plant once you get it established but it's important that when you set up the place that you're going to plant it that you put in loads of composting so on mine I had dug up about a foot down and then I laid about half a foot of compost before then backfilling it back with the soil and I'm just grabbing water from the water bud which I'll then take to just water the spots where I'm actually going to be planting the asparagus it's a good idea to soak your bare roots in water because that just makes them a bit more pliable they do get quite stiff especially if you don't plant them out straight away from when you receive them so if you soak them it just loosens up the roots so that it makes it easier for you to spread them and then you're just going to dig up just a little bit of soil I'd say probably something like three to four inches and you have to create a little mound where you sort of spread the roots over before you cover them give them a bit of a water and pops your uncle they'll be ready to go probably in another two years or so but as most gardeners know gardening is a triumph of hope over anything else hope springs eternal when you're a gardener so yeah I'm looking forward to eating these in 2022