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The veg patch greets the new year with rhubarb. Quite possibly the first thing the garden gives us after Christmas to stick into a pudding, things like hellebores and snowdrops – even daffodils – being a touch on the toxic side and consequently not something you’d want to eat. Not to say that an excess of rhubarb would do you much good – rather too much oxalic acid to be entirely conducive to health and wellbeing, although not quite so much gram for gram in the foliage as chard or spinach. Cooking is our friend here, although levels of oxalates are lower in baby spinach leaves which are okay in moderation for salads and sarnies. But of course it’s the rhubarb stems we’re after and, though we’re a good month or three off harvesting, this particuarly crown is so ferociously eager to get off to an early start it’s barely worth faffing about with forcing. Still, plenty of time for me to disentangle it from the encroaching couch grass while we hungrily wait.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
