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First Pickings 2015
Dovefromabove
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This morning I've picked this year's first rhubarb (Timperly Early) - beautiful thick pink sweet stems - crumble tonight anyone?
£6.40 a kilo in the farm shop - the price of a bucket full of manure and a sprinkling of FB&B here, and I'll go on picking until mid-summer 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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wow. They look delish.
I bought two plants last year and have them in pots. I must find a permanent home for them this year.
My mouth's watering already! They look sooooooo tasty and fresh. So excited to get my veg plot going next year - spending this year just working the ground (currently an overgrown border). This has inspired me to get out and do some more digging.
Custard, Ice-cream or Cream with that crumble? Decisions, decisions
OH has requested custard
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wow definitely look tempting Dove
Thought I had lost my crowns
they were an inheritance from Aunty Snow so really precious. Your pic made me go and investigate and
they are pushing their heads through the rather deep mulch duvet I gave the bed last autumn so I 'll cover them again but perhaps a bucket this time.
Enjoy your crumble and custard
*jealous face*
mine isn't far behind but far behind enough
when I checked a week ago the stalks were about four-five inches so not long now 
Nice ones there Dove, had a bit at weekend. very tasty.
Not fair! That's a perennial crop!
Looks great though!
Anyone managed to harvest anything sown this year yet?
My mustard isn't even big enough yet, and I seem to have sown it a bit thinly (not done since I was a kid), some you get right, others you don't
Up here in the NE it has been dull and overcast for months so the early carrots I usually get from the polytunnel just aren't growing. Seems to have been a long winter but spring can't be fer away.
Foggy and wet here in Norfolk this morning Barbara, but when Spring reappears I'll try to nudge a little of it in your direction
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.