Thanks! Totally forgot about rhubarb - we have 4 good plants. Will go and pull some tomorrow!!
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Our rhubarb just doesn’t grow well here.
Try giving it a couple of hand fulls of blood fish and bone, and a couple of inches of compost or well rotted manure, keeping both 8 inches from the crown.
Never harvest / pull more than a 3th at a time.
And in dry weather conditions keep well watered.
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Congratulations 
. It should be much easier from now on.
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Is that an anti cat 
mechanism I see in the photo ?. We use regularly spaced sharp kebab skewers, pointing up !
I have a roll of that stuff in the shed, so may give it a try as a more humane method 
Great minds ! Ours will be pulled tomorrow and we have the apples waiting.
Yes it is
We always force some of our rhubarb and I make a rhubarb and cinnamon tart.
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Finally managed to stake out all the tomatoes and peppers, just before what looks like some very stormy weather arriving - very satisfying 
And the first tomatoes now coming through 
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Delicious ! You have reminded me that I have some rhubarb waiting to be made into a crumble… next job.
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We also have an occasional such visitor, One-Eye, (because she is missing one) but she doesn’t come through the house anymore, I think she senses Jules’ desire for blood. It wasn’t always the case so she must have a 6th sense because she first walked right through the house in full view of Tosca, the Setter and Boss, the Rottweiler. Tosca watched her carefully but did nothing till One-eye tried to kiss her at which point she got a warning snap which wasn’t intended to make contact. With Boss they warily approached each other until there was a very light nose touch before they both went their separate ways. 
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First rain of any substance during the night accompanied by horrendous thunder and lightning, it just lit everything up like day. Living on a building site is no fun when it rains like that, the car was bogged down and left a huge rut when I managed to get it out. Forecast is for another week at least of hot weather and no rain but I did notice some farmers had left apricots on their trees so might get some yet.
I miss having cats so much but not practical here now and there are three who use me as their friend anyway. I had five at once a few years ago but sadly they left me one by one, thats the bit I don’t want to go through again plus DIL has developed an allergy to cats as well.
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Took me all afternoon and just finished installing a new starter motor in my car. Normally a straightforward job but oh my this was damn fiddly as mid engine car. On more than one occasion the air was somewhat blue on top of the tax return, this was the other job I was dreading:partying_face: now complete relaxation
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that’s great news!! …
for us, tomorrow’s excitement will be bleeding the hydraulics… hopefully this will resolve the “sticking clutch” …
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Here’s part of the 1.5kg of strawberries the OH picked this afternoon.
After removing a portion for both of us, with cream, the rest are going with 1.2kg I already have in the freezer to make strawberry champagne, which may be the first wine in my upcoming wine thread. I’ve been ill for nearly 3 weeks now though, and so it may be a little while before this gets going. Never made a sparkling wine before, so it should be interesting
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yummy… nothing quite like strawberries straight from the garden… in fact most things taste incredible when they’re so fresh…
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With a little mint they are lovely. I made strawberry wine one year but it was very very sweet. Unfortunately here they don’t seem the same unless you pay for the very expensive ones but I did see a local panel advertising pick your own - from a greenhouse, not the same as straw-lined english fields.
