Cultivars
Asparagus plants are dioecious; that is, they have
separate male and female plants. The female plants are
somewhat less productive and shorter-lived than males.
The seeds from female plants can cause a volunteer “weed”
problem in established asparagus fields.
The new super male hybrids have resistance to many as-
paragus diseases and yield three to four times as much as the
standard varieties. They have no volunteer problem. During a
harvest season, usually three to four spear emergence flushes
occur.