Wicked Organics Asparagus Fertilizer

Feed the Bed, Not Just the Season — Strong Spears Now, Productive Crowns for Years

Old Cobblers Farm Wicked Organics Asparagus Fertilizer is a blended organic plant food formulated for one of the garden's great long-term investments: the perennial asparagus bed. A well-kept asparagus patch produces for 15–20 years, but only if you feed the crowns, not just the spears. This 4-6-4 is built for that. Its nitrogen is split — of the 4% total, 2.5% is water-insoluble and released slowly by soil microbes, with 1.5% water-soluble for early green-up — so it feeds through the season without burning asparagus's shallow feeder roots. The 6% phosphate supports the root systems and crown structure that store next year's energy, and the 4% potash supports stress tolerance and the carbohydrate storage that drives future spear production.

Asparagus has a rhythm, and this feed follows it. The first feeding goes down in early spring, just before the spears push up, so nutrients are ready the moment growth starts. The second — the one gardeners most often skip and shouldn't — goes down after the final harvest, as the ferns take over: those ferns photosynthesize all summer to refill the crowns with the carbohydrates that become next spring's spears. Feed the fern, and you feed next year's harvest.

One ingredient note: this blend contains animal protein meals and bone char, so it is not a vegan product, and like other bone- and protein-based feeds it can attract pets; incorporate it and store it securely.

Key Benefits

Strong spring spears — Balanced nutrition timed to early spring fuels vigorous, uniform spear emergence.

Healthy crowns and roots — 6% phosphate supports the root systems and crown structure that store the energy behind every future harvest.

 Builds next year's harvest — 4% potash supports fern growth and the carbohydrate reserves crowns build for next season — feed the fern, feed next year.

Slow-release, non-burning — The 2.5% water-insoluble nitrogen releases slowly through microbial breakdown — steady feeding with no burn on shallow asparagus roots.

For a long-lived bed — Asparagus beds last 15–20 years; this feeds the long game, building soil biology in permanent beds.

Resilience over the years — Better stress tolerance through heat and drought, and steadier harvests over many seasons.

Where to use it: established and new perennial asparagus beds — and it suits other perennial vegetable plantings on the same near-neutral, well-drained soil asparagus prefers.