Relocating Rhubarb, Giant Jerusalem Artichoke

The least productive rhubarb in southern England is approaching three years of age. Dire warnings of massive gluts have been received rather wistfully over the past three seasons. Hopes of testing The Rhubarb Compendium’s weirdest recipes were dashed. I’ve been lucky to scrape together one minuscule rhubarb crumble per season. After neighbouring plotholders extolled the [...]

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Spring Changes

Busy times. Suddenly there’s a month of work and photos to show, with ample proof of the arrival of spring. The last post ended with Jerusalem artichokes going into the ground. One has made its first appearance out of it, photo taken on 18 April: The rhubarb on 29 March, in a bed infested with [...]

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Spring Progress

Still no proper internet access from home, but spring goes on and so does work at the plot. (I am fortunate enough to be able to use another computer occasionally.) As a result of not having chance to play around with the new WordPress photo uploader, some of these pics could be better placed: I will edit [...]

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More Spuds

I dug up yet more King Edwards on Sunday and wonder how many are still in there, since the bed will soon be needed for something else. Their tendency to disintegrate when boiled seems lessened by our unintentional ‘overwintering’. I traded some with a friend for a piece of Scottish smoked haddock and heard later [...]

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