Awesome. It only takes 2 a 3 years to establish a crop. Hope they don’t get too hungry until then.
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Yeah, asparagus doesn’t make as much sense as a much faster-producing food crop such as corn or beans. On Earth, we call them annuals, vs perennials for plants, such as asparagus, that continue to live and produce season after season after being established. (Not sure how plants on Mars would adapt to whatever growing seasons that planet offers.)
Didn’t Matt Damon’s character in “The Martian” grow potatoes to survive?
Radishes, turnips, and peas. There is a 19 day radish and 45 day turnips. Peas take a bit longer.
There was a man in Scotland who weighed 860 pounds. He fasted under a doctors carefor something like 260 days and survived. Lost something like 320 pounds. On Mars fasting would give the radishes a chance to grow!