I miss rhubarb. Setting up a new veg patch as I am, I’m following common advice and not picking my first-year crowns until they are into their second Spring. Rhubarb is one of my favourite harvests, and everywhere I turn, the lack of rhubarb is paining me. Little reminders that everyone else is revelling in …
I remember when I used to fish, and subscribe to a sea angling mag. I’d sit in bed reading up, and my lovely wife would sit there and say ‘COD! BASS! COD! BASS!’. Every year was the same, she’d venture. Early in the season, the front cover would say ‘Catch Spring Bass!’, followed by ‘Catch …
‘Do you want any rhubarb?’ I was dropping Lewis off at nursery last week, and inside the door lay a big basket of surplus rhubarb, fresh from one of the nursery staff’s plot. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never seen so much rhubarb up for grabs before, and people are offering rhubarb out …
