Just had my first picking of rhubarb (unforced),
delicious!

Looking back at my records for the last 14 years, end
of April is the most frequent peiod for starting
picking rhubarb. I use a 10 day span, for Early, Mid &
Late, and out of the 14 years,7 were Late-April, 2
were early-May, 3 were mid-April and 1 each for
early-April and mid-May.

Everything is beinging to shoot like mad, having been
away for almost a week it is an amazing difference.
Grass needs cutting again, for the 3rd time this year.


--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

Roger Tonkin wrote in
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Just had my first picking of rhubarb (unforced),
delicious!

Looking back at my records for the last 14 years, end
of April is the most frequent peiod for starting
picking rhubarb. I use a 10 day span, for Early, Mid &
Late, and out of the 14 years,7 were Late-April, 2
were early-May, 3 were mid-April and 1 each for
early-April and mid-May.

Everything is beinging to shoot like mad, having been
away for almost a week it is an amazing difference.
Grass needs cutting again, for the 3rd time this year.



Yes. The starting pistol. Wonderful how everything is bursting into life
after a bad start.
Our rhubarb is probably 2 weeks away from picking.
Grass has been cut 3 times too, ready for the fourth.

Baz

On 28/04/2013 19:18, Baz wrote:
Roger Tonkin wrote in
:

Just had my first picking of rhubarb (unforced),
delicious!

Looking back at my records for the last 14 years, end
of April is the most frequent peiod for starting
picking rhubarb. I use a 10 day span, for Early, Mid &
Late, and out of the 14 years,7 were Late-April, 2
were early-May, 3 were mid-April and 1 each for
early-April and mid-May.

Everything is beinging to shoot like mad, having been
away for almost a week it is an amazing difference.
Grass needs cutting again, for the 3rd time this year.



Yes. The starting pistol. Wonderful how everything is bursting into life
after a bad start.
Our rhubarb is probably 2 weeks away from picking.
Grass has been cut 3 times too, ready for the fourth.

Baz

I just wish the weather would be Spring like here.
David @ the dull and cold end of Swansea Bay

On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:52:55 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:23:44 +0100, Roger Tonkin
wrote:
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The common primroses in my garden are better than I have ever seen them.
Great hummocks of pale yellow, and the perfume they give off when the
sun shines is wonderful.

Yes, my friend and I were just commenting on it today, when she stopped
by to pick up a spare hibiscus: a wonderful year for primroses, and
they've colonised some new areas of the garden for which I'm grateful.

But goodness, it's cold again, we shall have more frost tonight I don't
doubt.

--
Gardening in Lower Normandy