Busy hours in the garden. Harvested twenty five approx stalks of Rhubarb (Rheum x cultorum) (Rheum?!) One third of the plant is recommended harvested in third or fourth year of its existence- Peter's looks well established - at least four years with thick roots)
....first lot....
....some more.....
...the remaining.....
The first giant batch is stewed now. I found many gorgeous herbs under the overgrown Fennell and hidden in the weeds. Yanked weeds, tilled a few square feet of dark moist soil and popped the remaining tray of lettuce down. I like the feel of everything, the tug of the long grass, the mass of roots of dandelion with its tidy corona and ropey stalks that go wandering about in their long reach, peaking through the prehistoric leaves of Rhubarb and among the spiny Rosemary plant.... definitely shrub-size, a very big shrub. It laughs at slugs. A hollow, megalithic laugh.
About 8 litres of Rhubarb stew.....
