I always like to share this for my friends/ readers who grow or hunt for asparagus because if you are not paying attention asparagus can get too big and go to seed before you know it. Yesterday I noticed that our asparagus is just beginning to poke up through the ground. We will be enjoying fresh asparagus soon. 🙂
Not nearly as inconspicuous as asparagus, rhubarb is up and making it’s presence known.
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I miss having asparagus since we sold the cottage but I do have rhubarb growing here!
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Our asparagus seemed to be stunted by the cold rainy spell that we had. After posting that it just seemed to stop growing. I haven’t harvested any yet though I suspect it will be soon now that things have warmed up. Will you be making rhubarb pie?
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Rhubarb crisp usually, although it’s still pretty tiny right now because of the cold weather.
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I Love rhubarb crisp!
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My grandma always had rhubarb in her garden. She always baked strawberry and rhubarb pie! Soo yummy!
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I just baked a strawberry-rhubarb pie last week to use up the rhubarb I had in my freezer from last year. We like strawberry rhubarb crisp too and rhubarb sauce is good and my Aunt makes strawberry rhubarb cheese cake…. I’m getting hungry. LOL!
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Omg! That sounds amazing!! I do have a weakness for cheesecake! Yum!!
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Ooo I’ve never thought about growing asparagus. I do plant strawberries, and my dad does tomatoes. xx
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Fresh strawberries are absolutely a spring time favorite and you can’t beat home grown tomatoes. 🙂
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I actually had no idea how asparagus grew! This is soo cool to see a picture of it like this. Learn something new every day 🙂 Thanks for sharing, Ruth!
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You’re welcome Mackenzie. I honestly almost posted that without a picture but decided to wait until I got one to add. So glad it was helpful.
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My parents were always watching for the asparagus to be ready. Unfortunately, I didn’t really like it until I was grown and had left home. I ate it dutifully then, and how I wish I had it now!
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Funny how our tastes change over time. I even see it with my kids when they come home. I’m like you never ate sauerkraut or mushrooms or whatever when you were growing up and they say oh I really like whatever it is.
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I used to think my parents and my children were picky, but now I think they just had different tastes from mine.
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Absolutely love asparagus! I laughed about your rhubarb. I have to put corn tunnels over mine so the chickens don’t totally destroy it.
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I laughed and my husband cringed when reading your comment Faye. Our rhubarb at the farm is in a fenced in area so the chickens can’t get to it. Before we bought our farm my sister and brother-in-law let us do our gardening at their place. We also decided to go in with them on some chickens that they would raise at their place. They set up a coop near their barn and fenced in an area around the coop. My sister had rhubarb growing inside the fenced area and said she would have to move it before putting the chickens in there. My husband assured her that her rhubarb would be safe. “Chickens don’t like rhubarb,” he said. When he was young they had raised chickens and they never bothered the rhubarb. Of course with lots of room to roam and lots of the things to peck and scratch the chickens of his youth had no need to bother the rhubarb. The chickens at my sisters on the other had made quick work of the rhubarb and every other green thing growing within the fenced area.
All was forgiven years ago but I don’t think he will ever live it down.
The moral of the story – “Never trust chickens!”
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I will have to tell you the story sometime about why we reseeded our back yard 3 times! Yep…never trust a chicken.
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I LOVE asparagus!! I have been watching carefully for ours to come up too.. so far, none. But the rhubarb is up!!
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Once the rhubarb is up asparagus won’t be far behind. 🙂 I am going to try fermenting asparagus this year.
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Fermenting asparagus? Never thought of such a thing.
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I will post about it.
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Ooooo… that actually sounds really YUMMY!! I might try that too. Post your recipe if you do try it.
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I will be sure to post it. 🙂
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