This is a brick planter I used for a fall garden last year. Since we’re changing our square foot garden to a raised bed square foot garden, I had to dig up my 4 foot x 4 foot square of asparagus plants.
Was THAT a job! I think the roots go all the way to the other side of the planet. I dug up plantable (I hope) asparagus parts, including long, long roots. We finally wheeled them across the yard to the other side of our house, to this brick planter. It’s deeper than the regular square foot garden, giving the asparagus roots lots of room to spread out.
I tried to have two transplants in each square. I took down the wooden stakes and netting that I had to have to keep critters coming and eating the lettuce and spinach. I don’t think I’ll need it for the asparagus, since it shouldn’t show much growth until the spring.
I’m hoping they’ll be happy here for many years to come, giving us a nice harvest of asparagus spears next year. This was the third year for the plants, but I think they were cramped and unhappy in the regular square foot garden. The PVC pipe running along the right side of this planter is the irrigation system. There are small holes in the pipe and the system is on a timer. This will be a fun experiment. We’ll see the results next spring!
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