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Free Rhubarb? Yes Please!

Free Rhubarb? Yes Please!

  • katieelizabeth28@hotmail.co.uk' by Katie
  • February 25, 2017
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I love it when a plan comes together and when that plan involves free plants! A plot on our site has the best (and longest) row of rhubarb which always produces hundreds of delicious stalks, it just so happens that the owner recently lifted the crowns and split them all up leaving a pile of them near the gate for people to help themselves too… it was my lucky day! I’ve been planning my allotment all Winter and gave a designated space to grow rhubarb, 3 to be exact, so that’s how many crowns I helped myself too (I didn’t want to be greedy after all!)

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Both me, my partner and my Dad love rhubarb and even though my Dad has 5 crowns growing already this simply wasn’t enough (okay maybe I am greedy!) The fact is I would love to make more things with rhubarb except from rhubarb crumble and rhubarb cake. I plan on making wine, jam and cordials too which of course calls for lots of rhubarb… Did I mention that I love rhubarb?!

I safely buried the three crowns into a spare patch of soil until I get the new rhubarb area ready, which I’m hoping to do tomorrow if the weather is kind to me. Then the plan is to let them settle in for a year before harvesting from them and then I will be using a rhubarb forcer on one crown, changing it to another for the next year and so on. Fingers crossed for lots of rhubarb in the near future!

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8 thoughts on “Free Rhubarb? Yes Please!”

  1. allotmentman@outlook.com'Vincent Neale on February 25, 2017 at 3:33 pm said:

    I have two rhubarb on my allotment one is Victoria the other I don’t know the name but its a Champaign type I also have one in my garden at home which is again Victoria which I grew from seed sown 18 years ago and that one has been split twice. I make crumbles tarts and ginger & Rhubarb wine I compost all the leaves which helps to cut down the alkaline to give a soil of about 6.5

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    • katieelizabeth28@hotmail.co.uk'Katie on February 28, 2017 at 8:16 pm said:

      Sounds like you have a really nice set up there and lot’s of yummy rhubarb! I can’t wait to make rhubarb wine, I have some pea pod wine sitting ontop of the fridge 🙂

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  2. barbara@dandbsteward.co.uk'Barbara Ann Steward on February 25, 2017 at 7:57 pm said:

    Love Rhubarb with ginger and orange juice cooked with brown sugar. Because it leaves the pan all shiny I imagine after a winter’s eating of puddings etc, the new rhubarb will clean and sweep away all the debris in my system and veins, probably wishful thinking!
    Love the crumble.

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    • katieelizabeth28@hotmail.co.uk'Katie on February 28, 2017 at 8:17 pm said:

      Oh wouldn’t that be nice! 🙂 I love crumble too, I really want a bramley apple tree just so I can make lots of apple crumbles!

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  3. Christaylor040@gmail.com'Chris on February 26, 2017 at 5:19 pm said:

    I have four crowns of rhubarb on my allotment and use it in make pies and crumbles. Last year I had loads of stalks and so also made wine. I can attest it was very good, though do try to have select the reddest stalks if making wine as it then produces a lovely rosé.

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    • katieelizabeth28@hotmail.co.uk'Katie on February 28, 2017 at 8:17 pm said:

      Thanks for the tip Chris, I really can’t wait!

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  4. geastcalais@aol.com'DOUGLAS GUY on February 27, 2017 at 12:48 am said:

    Hi
    I like a pie that uses some fine chopper sweet cicely leaves, the hint of anise they add lets me use less sugar. It is a beautiful herb with fine ferney leaves but it sets seed at a terrific rate and can take over. It did so under a couple of my apple trees and when I mow under them you can smell the anise scent out at the road.

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    • katieelizabeth28@hotmail.co.uk'Katie on February 28, 2017 at 8:20 pm said:

      Hello and that sounds so lovely! I remember sitting in the tractor with my boyfriend once when we was mowing a field with wild mint in the corner, the smell was so beautiful!

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