Posts from ‘March, 2009’

 Vegalicious March 2009:
  Rhubarb Salsa
 
 
Rhubarb is such an amazing vegetable, used as a fruit. It’s so fun to go out in the garden on an early spring morning, still chilly with fog, and see the little red nubs of the rhubarb plant beginning to come above the ground. Rhubarb is one of the earliest plants [...]

 New Routes: March 2009
 by Jill Coleman
 
 
It has been so nice to see the sun at last and actually to feel warm when we are at work. Only a couple of weeks ago we could only make out the first stirrings of early growth on the New Routes site. Now the gardens are splashed with bright [...]

Hellebores are perfect plants for dull positions. Their beautiful paper blossoms are a league above many other plants grown for their winter colour such as hideous primula. They prefer part-shade and rich soil.

Photo courtesy of Steve Thoroughgood
Coming across a mulberry tree is always a lovely surprise. These beautiful trees awake a childlike enthusiasm in quite serious adults, as harvesting their fruit involves clambering through their gnarled branches and stuffing the sweet, plump berries into your mouth, as the juice spills over your fingers.

:shallots:, by Helen Lehdorf
Hoorah for March turning up on our doorstep, fresh faced and full of beans. Now’s the time to sow your shallots indoors. Space about 5cm apart or grow in toilet roll tubes. Plant out in April after hardening off, and you’ll have clumps of the lovely, miniature onions ready by June or [...]