Enjoy delicious, homegrown vegetables with this comprehensive guide to planting, cultivating, and cooking asparagus. From being a tasty dish to enhancing your garden with its plants, asparagus provides an abundance of uses. Learn about where it came from before discovering how to: Choose a site Prepare the soil Care for and plant the roots Deal with insects and diseases Harvest the spears Plus, get easy-to-read instructions for 10 recipes that incorporate your freshly grown asparagus!