Well hello there. Where have you been? I was out watering the dark corner behind the chicken coop where I’m trying to grow some rhubarb, and look what’s popped up: another shoot.

Not just another shoot, though, but a whole new plant. When I put them in the ground way back in February I planted two distinct roots. They looked the same. They came from the same place. They were dug down to the same depth and had the same fertiliser… yet only one came up.

I’d pretty much given up on the second one, and in fact dug it up to take a look at it a few weeks back. It didn’t look good. I’m sure something had been eating it.

Perhaps that digging did the trick, though. Today there was that little leaf up above finally marking out the spot where I hope a good strong plant will grow over the next few months.

We won’t get anything to eat from it this year, but together the two of them should be enough to provide us with a few crumbles next summer. With rhubarb being as expensive as it is in this country, I can barely wait.

Let’s hope it catches up with its older brother, which as you can see from the picture below is considerably further ahead.

Rhubarb

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