We went in a garden centre on Sunday for a perusal of the price of perennials plants and I even invested in a rhubarb plant. Like you do. I paid 6 Euros for it.
Yesterday I got out my trusty old bread knife and divided it into four new plants. Tight wad plant making is the way to do it.
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Here's my new plants all potted up and none the worse for wear after their operation.
Rhubarb originates in Siberia, China and thrives in the wet and cold county of Yorkshire.
In the 1930s there was a nine square mile area of deepest Yorkshire where avid rhubarb growers forced rhubarb. This was called: The Yorkshire Triangle.
I suppose there must of been a big demand for rhubarb and custard back in the day?
Remember Birds custard powder and tinned custard? How do you like your custard? I like it runny.
Interestingly rhubarb is not a fruit, it's a vegetable. You can eat it with your meat and vegetables.
Don't eat the leaves though or feed it to livestock. It's poisonous. You can make it into a natural insecticide and spray it on the "flickers" on your fruit and vegetables.
Here's a song for JayCee because she's on her jollies in Bermuda. Let's substitute Bermuda for Yorkshire and YP can join in:
"Yorkshire Triangle.."
"We like our rhubarb and Tetleys beer. Yorkshire Triangle..."
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And the rhubarb sheds lit by candles....
ReplyDeleteExactly GZ. I have read that when they were installing electricity poles and lines to rural Irish properties in the 1950s. A lot of people said they did not want it because they had never had a bill before.
ReplyDeleteI love rhubarb with thick custard.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the song Dave. I now have an earworm to accompany me to dinner tonight.
Thick custard? Do you remember tinned custard JayCee? Imagine if Barry had been born in Yorkshir,. He could have been a Manchester United fan like Sir Geoffrey and me? Are you flying back on Yorkshire Airlines? Enjoy your Karaoke tonight singing with P.
ReplyDeleteDon't tell me how it thrives in Yks. We chop ours with a spade and throw half away every year. It's a monster.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are on a winner and own a good variety Tasker. Leviathan like vegetables are excellent.
ReplyDeleteI have rhubarb to plant this year (if it ever stops snowing). I have never eaten rhubarb with my meat and tatties. Off to look up recipes!
ReplyDeleteRhubarb is very resilient and it grows through the frost, rain and snow Debby. It is in fact a vegetable but we mainly eat it like it is a fruit. Also it's a perennial so it keeps on giving.
DeleteIn the house where I used to live and where my daughter still lives, there was a huge stand of rhubarb in the front garden. About a year after I moved here I decided to cut a section of it to bring to my new home. I planted it, it didn't thrive, and eventually died. But so did the parent plant and now neither of us has rhubarb. I just buy some at the supermarket when I want to make a pie or crumble.
ReplyDeleteHi River. Rhubarb needs lots of fym and water especially in hot weather.
ReplyDeleteI invested in a variety called Stockbridge Arrow - enormous rhubarb stalks! We can never have too much rhubarb.
ReplyDeleteI just Googled it Tigger's Mum. It' was bred in Yorkshire. I will have to look for it over here. Brexit made things very difficult to buy from England like plants and seeds and Newcastle Brown Ale. I have to go to Tralee for my supply.
ReplyDeleteI wish we could grow rhubarb here. I'm sure the winters are cold enough. The Greeks wouldn't know what to do with it. But I would. Stewed rhubarb and thick custard for me.
ReplyDeleteHi Linda. I don't like thick custard. Rhubarb likes the cold and rain. It originates in China and Russia. I must Google rhubarb recipes.
DeleteThe Yorkshire Triangle still exists! And there are a couple of rhubarb farms where you can visit the rhubarb sheds. It is big business these days.... You wrote this: "wet and cold county of Yorkshire" which has made my blood boil. Sheffield gets an average of 34 inches of rain per year but Bantry gets 51 inches! Please change "wet and cold" to "pleasant and friendly"!
ReplyDeleteCan I send my Yorkshire Riviera resident to the rhubarb visits on a rhubarb shed reconnaissance mission perhaps for a future blog post? I have had a few wet and cold holidays in Scarborough. I think wet and cold got lost in translation. Like the time I was in a Sheffield and asked the young lady for a chip muffin and she told me they old had flour cakes. They were the same thing. Kerry incidentally is the wettest county in Ireland followed by county Cork where we reside on the Irish Riviera where the gorse bushes and soft rushes grow.
ReplyDeleteI met a colleen by the road to Cork
ReplyDeleteWe shared a kiss but didn't talk
Then we danced away that summer long
To this sweet traditional Irish song:
I wish I was in Carrickfergus
only for nights in Ballygran
I would swim over the deepest ocean
the deepest ocean
for my love to find
but the sea is wide and I cannot cross over
nor do I have any wings to fly
if I could find me a handsome boatman
to ferry me over to my love and die
What a lovely ditty YP. Interestingly enough. My blog post later today or tomorrow features another Clancy Brothers song. Carrickfergus is a beautiful song. Have a listen to the Clancy Brothers and Charlotte Church's sublime versions on You Tube. They are very moving.
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be my post for today. I can't say that I was very impressed with Van Morrison's version. He should get a van and drive to Morrisons for some hair restorer. He'll need a gallon or two.
DeleteVan does karaoke. What a terrible version. Son: "Dad there's a man at the door with a bald head". Dad: "Tell him to go away. I have already got one!" How did some people make it? "Have I Told You Lately?" "That I can't sing?"
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