asparagus shoot

But they eat everything, my new asparagus shoots were totally ruined by them last year.

The asparagus shoots are coming up in Bill McVeigh's garden.

Only young asparagus shoots are commonly eaten: once the buds start to open ("ferning out"), the shoots quickly turn woody.

Now Mr. Verrill spends his days driving around in a van between what were once grain fields, stopping to poke cabbage heads, asparagus shoots and habanero peppers, searching for freeze damage or hungry bugs.

Now sitting at his brother's board, eating roast saddle of lamb and the first crisp white asparagus shoots of the season flown in from the Continent, Peter was at last covering forbidden ground, examining loyalties which until then had been unquestioned.