Would you expect them to grow on a vine like beans or something?

Bunched together or with leaves around them was my assumption, not individually like someone just bought some and stuck them in the ground.

Didn't know we harvested them as baby plants.

Wait... How do we know that someone didn't just buy some and stuck them in the ground to make us think that this is how they grow?

I raise you brussels sprouts:

Wtf no way this is real

EDIT: whoa

Yea I wasn't sure how I thought they grew, but I never would have guessed that. I saw them at the supermarket on the stem and I was like wtf

I can't believe you just spent an hour hotgluing brussel sprouts to a small tree just to trick people on the internet

Oh no that’s not even them as babies. That’s like two years in.

This is baby asparagus. It takes forever to develop to actual asperagus stage.

never really thought about it

I’m a breastparagus man myself

4 years isn't it? I looked into it back in the 90s, decided hell no. LOL, it was suggested to dig a 4' deep trench to plant them.

That’s probably right. I think they become recognizable as asperagus around 2 years in. We had some, about two years in when were in a mobile home park. Swapped owners so they hired new lawn keepers… who fucking killed them right when they were almost harvestable god I was so mad.

And here I always thought they grew like tiny cabbages

I even traveled all the way to brussels to get them just for this prank.

So someone bought asparagus from the market, stuck it in the ground, took a picture, and it's indistinguishable from the real thing?

Otherwise it's surely not a shitpost

Wait until you hear how closely related they are to cabbages

You could have given me a million guesses and I wouldn't have arrived at that!

Dad that's gross, geez!

I'll see your Brussels Sprouts, and raise you Cashews:

It's extremely low maintenance once it establishes though which is nice.