Actually, this is not strictly true as I have been picking young broad beans for a while now and slicing them into my salads...but these were the first broad beans I intended to shell and cook....and they were delicious...
The following day a friend dropped in just to see how I was getting on with the new garden and as we walked around I showed him some young new rhubarb plants. These plants had been given to me by a friend in Wales back in October of last year and she had grown them from seed. I had never come across rhubarb grown from seed before so I took them with interest. I'm hoping to get a little rhubarb this year but probably won't really get a harvest until next 
And then today, Wednesday, the first strawberries were ready to pick...So I was able to enjoy strawberries and cream with my afternoon tea. When I started the garden last year, strawberries were one of the first plants I bought. I bought 12 each of 2 varieties and carefully alternated them as I planted....Now I do not have a clue which plant is which...but both are delicious
Suddenly the garden is flourishing and I'm really enjoying all this fresh produce, knowing that just over a year ago I made my first tentative steps into the world of vegetable gardening.... Is rhubarb a vegetable??
A big thank you goes out to everyone out there who has helped me along the way.
2 comments:
Hey Ian, I didn't know about the strawberries; how wonderfully delicious they look.
I think rhubarb IS a vegetable. At least the part you eat, because it's not the fruit of the plant, it's the stalk.
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