Asparagus plants

[Romanus]

Having only come back from a long holiday a couple of weeks ago, I was faced with diamonds, stars and goulds ready to go nesting again but very little nesting material to choose from. My neighbour offered me a stack of dried out asparagus plants so as a desperate measure I decided to try it out in the avaries. Result: can't get it in there quickly enough, no sooner do I put it in than it starts to go. In fact 2 pairs of diamonds are throwing out other bits of grass etc to make way for this stuff. Wonder if the cold weather has affected them?

It's working a treat and the nest boxes are overflowing with the tops. However, it has changed my opinion of adding asparagus to the dinner menu.

[Myzomela]

Is that your dinner menu or the birds'?

[goldelf]

Is that the asparagus edible plant or the asparagus fern-whcih you see a lot of growing wild ?

[finchbreeder]

I use the tips of asparugus fern, (which is proving very popular with the cubans in particular) but are very careful not to get the thorns as I don't want any fatalities.
LML

[Romanus]

Just using the tops off your normal asparagus plants, completely dried out. I was amazed at how quickly they took it