Asparagus can be easily grown in a Square Foot Garden. Because it is a perennial and takes several years to even get started before the first harvest and since people like a lot of asparagus and it only produces one crop a year, we suggest you plant an entire 4'x4' in only asparagus. Have you ever grown it before? The plants get very bushy throughout the summer and need quite a bit of room to spread out so leave good aisle space around it. (After you have harvested the asparagus, consider using the feathery leaves as filler in flower arrangements.)
Traditionally, you plant one per square foot, but Mel has found that if you can afford enough of the roots, four per square foot will produce a much bigger crop earlier. The conventional way of planting asparagus roots is to put about half or 3 inches of your Mel's Mix down, mark the spacing either the one or four per square foot, make little mounds at the plant location and then drape the roots, which you buy in the nursery or through mail order, over each one of those little mounds and then pour in the rest of the 3 inches of Mel's Mix. That would cover the roots an inch or two and that is about all you have to do.
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