A study was conducted during the year 20019-2020 at Annamalai University, Annamalainagar to find out a suitable media and appropriate nutritionto increase the growth, yield and quality of Asparagusdensiflorus'sprengeri' L. as cut foliage. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with 8 treatments and 3 replications.Among the different treatments, the treatment T9 (2 parts of garden soil + 1 part of farmyard manure, decomposed coirpith and pressmud + 19:19:19 NPK complex fertilizer

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... @ 1.5 % spray) was found to be the best in respect of all growth, yield and quality attributes such as foliage stalk length (58.6cm), primary branches per foliage stalk (48.8), length of primary branches in foliage stalk (11.2cm cladophylls per foliage stalk (1212.2), plant spread – East -West (79.4cm2), plant spread – North - South (58.4cm2),chlorophyll content (0.326 mg g-1),freshweight of foliage stalk per plant (159.3g), dry weight of foliage stalk per plant (20.0g),fresh weight of roots and tubers per plant(278.6g), dry weight of roots and tubers per plant (57.3g), dry matter production (109.5g), tubers per plant (68.0), foliage stalks per plant (36.5),visual scoring (9.3), vase life of foliage stalk without pulsing (9.0 days) and with pulsing (13.2 days),followed by T7 (2 parts of garden soil + 1 part of farmyard manure and pressmud+ 19:19:19 NPK complex fertilizer @ 1.5 % spray). Control recorded the minimumgrowth, yield and quality attributes of asparagus.