I'm to make a rhubarb crumble tomorrow or the next day (depending on the outcome of my visit to the dentist tomorrow morning)
Ooh, hope all goes well Dove. I was wondering if you'd picked yours today when I spied the forcing cloche.
Hi Stacey, I was just reading about Victoria as one of the three best varieties. I never took Rhubarb very seriously. When I was a kid we had a plant in the garden and I just took it for granted. Cut it and ate it whenever I fancied some. It never occurred to me that there could be good ones and even better ones.
Where did you get the others from? They seem expensive on line, that's without the shipping.
I'm just so pleased after years of failing with Rhubarb that the Timperly Early has appeared again for the second year running. I'm wondering if it's the soil here in the Fens, a friend who is a very experienced fruit and veg gardener has just about given up with rhubarb. I tend to make rhubarb fool, but with Greek yoghurt not cream.
On a different fruit theme, am sitting here drinking homemade pear wine (I think they are Concord Pears) from 2011: delicious
Artjak - the pear wine sounds like lovely. I didn't even realise you could make Pear wine. That's what I love about this forum I learn't something new!
Heyyyyy, I decided I'd scrape around where I thought my Glaskins Perpetual was and I found it, I'd accidentally covered it over with mulch and thankfully it hadn't rotted. While looking for the Rhubarb I inadvertently scraped up a bit of wild garlic and when I was searching for somewhere to plant it again as I dragged back the soil up came one of the labels for the unidentified rhubarb.
Talk about Serendipity! I told you I'd not heard of Victoria.
Timperley Early 99p in a sale, two roots in a bag. Our house already has two other rhubarbs but I don't know which ones they are. I love rhubarb and need to get a mid season and a late one.
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Ooh, hope all goes well Dove. I was wondering if you'd picked yours today when I spied the forcing cloche.
Hi Stacey, I was just reading about Victoria as one of the three best varieties. I never took Rhubarb very seriously. When I was a kid we had a plant in the garden and I just took it for granted. Cut it and ate it whenever I fancied some. It never occurred to me that there could be good ones and even better ones.
Where did you get the others from? They seem expensive on line, that's without the shipping.
I'm just so pleased after years of failing with Rhubarb that the Timperly Early has appeared again for the second year running. I'm wondering if it's the soil here in the Fens, a friend who is a very experienced fruit and veg gardener has just about given up with rhubarb. I tend to make rhubarb fool, but with Greek yoghurt not cream.
On a different fruit theme, am sitting here drinking homemade pear wine (I think they are Concord Pears) from 2011: delicious
I've just had a look at which Rhubarb i've got and its Early Red. Has anyone got this or know how it tastes?
Artjak - the pear wine sounds like lovely. I didn't even realise you could make Pear wine. That's what I love about this forum I learn't something new!
I love Concorde pears - we planted one here when we moved in - it's taking it's time to get going - and I love home made wine
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Allium2, you can make wine from virtually anything, possibly even alliums
http://www.wine-making-guides.com/onion_wine.html
Not sure that I'll try it tho'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
So, are we talking bout pears now?
Heyyyyy, I decided I'd scrape around where I thought my Glaskins Perpetual was and I found it, I'd accidentally covered it over with mulch and thankfully it hadn't rotted. While looking for the Rhubarb I inadvertently scraped up a bit of wild garlic and when I was searching for somewhere to plant it again as I dragged back the soil up came one of the labels for the unidentified rhubarb.
Talk about Serendipity! I told you I'd not heard of Victoria.
Timperley Early 99p in a sale, two roots in a bag. Our house already has two other rhubarbs but I don't know which ones they are. I love rhubarb and need to get a mid season and a late one.
Any recommendations on what I should choose?