Titanarum

Rhubarb. I love it. Been given stalks by allotment neighbours. Beautiful stuff. Am stewing it with some sugar and having it with vanilla suffused custard or rice pudding. The next bunch will go into a crumble. I do have my own rhubarb plant but it’s a late one. Right now all I can see is a cluster of vibrant red knobs ready to burst into leaf. Give it a few more weeks and I should be able to start picking. Also doing well is the sprouting broccoli. Have only had a few stems so far as the fat pigeons beat me until recently. Now that the plants have adequate protection (chicken wire) the little stems are sprouting from every node. I should have half a kilo of the stuff by the weekend. Will definitely grow them again. And lastly. Praise the powers that be for flat leaf parsley. It has survived all winter and its fragrance and flavour do me proud. And the chives… I cut the first cluster of the year down to a number one and mixed the finely cut bits into a smoked mackerel and thick yoghurt mousse. Divine. I have about half a dozen clusters, enough to keep me in going and then some.