stackyFACTSWhile most vegetables prefer a slow, tedious life, asparagus is in a desperate rush. Under ideal warm conditions, an asparagus stalk can shoot up an astonishing inch per hour. Farmers literally have to harvest it daily or it bolts into an inedible, fern-like monstrosity before they even realize it.
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