I don't have anything fruity in my garden, although every year I go blackberry picking on the common across the road with a couple of friends. Where I grew up near Wakefield is perfect conditions for rhubarb and it used to grow in my parents back garden (this is partly why I have my lj name).
Rhubarb grows very well where my parents live too (in Surrey, just on the edge of the North Downs). When we moved in 25 (!) years ago my Dad decided to get off to a good start in the garden and planted lots of rhubarb. Later that year it came up, right on schedule... along with the vast crop of rhubarb planted in another part of the garden by the previous residents. For several years we operated a sort of reverse taxation system on everyone who visited us in the summer. You could visit us for free, but you had to take a large carrier bag of rhubarb with you when you left. Once the rhubarb ran out each year, we applied the same system to our windfall apple mountain.
Courgettes are the new rhubarbrhubarbfoolAugust 17 2004, 02:49:38 UTC
Meredith recently had a similar experience when going to a friends party where everyone was required to take at least two courgettes with them when they left. Rhubarb is apparently very trendy at the moment as a couple of TV chefs have used it, which is good for my home area which is still a major producer but odd when I see it in Sainsbury's at 50p a stalk for something which I still think of as a tasty weed.
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When we moved in 25 (!) years ago my Dad decided to get off to a good start in the garden and planted lots of rhubarb. Later that year it came up, right on schedule... along with the vast crop of rhubarb planted in another part of the garden by the previous residents.
For several years we operated a sort of reverse taxation system on everyone who visited us in the summer. You could visit us for free, but you had to take a large carrier bag of rhubarb with you when you left.
Once the rhubarb ran out each year, we applied the same system to our windfall apple mountain.
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Rhubarb is apparently very trendy at the moment as a couple of TV chefs have used it, which is good for my home area which is still a major producer but odd when I see it in Sainsbury's at 50p a stalk for something which I still think of as a tasty weed.
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