Jolly Asparagus

The Jolly family have been growing asparagus at Roudham Farm in Norfolk for 30 years. There light sandy soils provide the ideal environment for producing the best tasting and highest quality asparagus on the British Isles.

Asparagus begins its life cycle on Roudham farm when they plant crowns into light sandy soils in April. Spears are produced from the crowns in the same year as planting, however these are not harvested, they leave the spears to continue growing into fern during the summer. During the fern stage of growth, the plant is producing energy which transferred down to the crown, so it has enough energy to produce spears again the following Spring. Jolly Asparagus then allow the plant two years of building up energy before taking the first harvest of spears in the third year after planting. Each crown will continue to grow in the same cycle producing delicious asparagus for 10-12 years.