Anyone ever move 10 year old asparagus

[Shadow]

Heres the problem we put the vegetable garden in raised beds made with concrete blocks and cap blocks. We have five beds of asparagus each 20 feet long that need to be moved and put in the new beds. Has anyone moved 10 year old asparagus. We will wait untill fall. The root system is about 18 inches across will it work or we just killing the asparagus.

[lmrose]

My DH is asleep [ where I should be at 1:00am ] but in the morning I will ask him how he moved our assparagus. I know he has atleast twice but I just can't remember how!Check back here tomorrow.

[lmrose]

Well, I asked Bill how to move assparagus? He said digging up new roots is easiest. The old ones could be dug up and moved but you will probably lose many of the plants.Roots will get broken and the shock of disturbing them may also cause some to die. Digging up new assparagus roots that have been reseeded from the old growth will probably be more successful. He just gave some new growth roots to a neighbor to plant yesterday. Sometimes there is no choice but to start over.

It isn't much different than moving trees to replant. Bill dug up 60 young Spuce trees that were from 6 inches to two feet tall.More than half survived replanting. The majority that survived were the smallest ones.We had a dry Spring which didn't help. He watered all well before planting but only the strongest survived.

[7thswan]

I moved mine and it's all doing fine. Moved it in the fall. Of course they were not 10 years old.