Tag: rhubarb

A feast for the eyes and stomach.

One can grow a lot in a 20’ x 20’ space. Around the perimeter, clockwise from upper left.

Tomatoes – 3 varieties, and tomatillos, with basil underneath

Zucchini

Thyme

Some flowers (forget the variety)

Cucumbers (1 so far, 4 on the way)

Sunflowers

More sunflowers

Another tomato

Small evergreen tree

Another zuke 

Squash

Nasturtiums and marigolds

Sage

Inside the perimeter, again clockwise from upper left

Haskap

Sunflowers and oregano

Tomatoes and hot peppers

Some dill

Still more tomatoes

The bare patch: just dug up the 48 garlic plants

Asparagus allowed to grow (we harvested about 10 lbs this spring)

Rhubarb

A 20 foot by 20 foot plt growing flowers and vgetables including tomatoes, asparagus, squash, peppers, sunflowers and herbs

We have rhubarb!

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Dinner on the deck

Dinner on the deck

This was last Saturday’s dinner. Salad, smoked chicken wings, creamy potato salad made with smoked potatoes, grilled asparagus – the first of the season! – and a beer. Dessert – courtesy of my girlfriend, who also happens to be my wife – rhubarb custard pie featuring home made crust and our own rhubarb.

Rhubarb

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Our rhubarb plant, now pretty much done producing for the year. We enjoyed rhubarb pie, rhubarb-strawberry pie, rhubarb muffins, a rhubarb custard thing, rhubarb nectar. I had never had rhubarb before moving to Canada. It’s been an acquired taste, first time I had it was in my mother-in-law’s rhubarb pie. It was . . . different. Having acquired the taste I do like it!