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Rhubarb and Ginger Jam
It's no secret that I love rhubarb so when my friendly neighbour told me she didn't like rhubarb and offered me some from her plot I jumped at the chance. It's getting to that time now when you need to stop picking your rhubarb to allow the crowns to gather st...
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Rhubarb Gin and Rhubarb Cordial
It's no secret that I love Rhubarb, a love that has been passed down from my Dad and his parents too. However, we haven't had much luck growing any rhubarb this year due to my Dad moving his 5 crowns and mine are still too young to be picking from yet. Therefo...
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Pick Your Own Farm Family Fun
The first time we ventured into Pickwell Farm in Southampton was back in October, the entire family came down to pick some pumpkins because we had failed to grow any on the allotment last year and we had the most enjoyable time. Since then it's safe to say tha...
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Free Rhubarb? Yes Please!
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 spli...
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Find of the Day!
A wander around a local independent garden centre here in Wales proved to be quite successful when I chanced upon these 3 beautifully weather beaten rhubarb forcers by the fruit trees. They didn't have a price on them and one had a lid missing but after enquir...
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Welsh Rhubarb
It looks like the rhubarb season is still underway and there is plenty growing here in Wales down on the farm. I've been telling Charles about the Rhubarb crumble cake for ages now so it only seemed right to make him one. So off I headed to the rhubarb patch j...
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The Rhubarb Harvest
We love rhubarb in this family so it only seemed fit to have a special raised bed over on my Dads plot with 5 crowns planted inside it. Not forgetting my two rhubarb crowns which were divided from my Dad's last year, they are still rather small so I won't be p...
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Rhubarb Crumble Cake
The rhubarb over on plot 2B has been thriving this past Spring, the crowns were split and planted into a raised bed last Winter which seems to have done the job brilliantly. There has been such a great harvest that I've been looking at some new recipes to try ...
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One Spoilt Allotment
I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas time, it sure went fast didn't it? I for one was thoroughly spoilt, or should I say my allotment was! I decided to head up to the plot on Monday to move some of my gifts up there and I had a few things to tick off my list...
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