Asparagus is a perennial herb that provides edible, above ground stalks during spring. While asparagus grows wild, those plants did not end up along roadsides and field edges by someone planting one-year-old asparagus crowns, but by seeds being carried and dropped by birds.

A Dodgeville woman was surprised to see a three-foot asparagus stalk in her perennial flower bed recently.

She couldn't imagine her garden asparagus spreading a hundred feet from her garden and then growing so quickly.

But like many plants, asparagus has two ways it can spread and reproduce and one of those ways is wit...