Rhubarb Festival!
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Coriander and Malarkey went out to the January garden to look for our rhubarb plant which is supposed to somewhere around here…
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Good King Henry
…the Good King Henry is coming up, and there are leeks off at the other end of the vegetable bed…
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Chard
…but look in the chard patch!
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Basket full
Malarkey and Coriander picked some and carried it home…
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…but Jane had to break the news that it was rainbow chard – and not rhubarb (but isn’t it perfect Hitty-sized rhubarb!?).
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Rhubarb and Strawberry Jam
The Rhubarb festival will have to be celebrated in the Quimper Hitty cupboard with bread and butter and rhubarb and strawberry Jam…
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Wakefield U.K.
This is how the Rhubarb Festival was celebrated in Yorkshire on the last weekend of February!
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The girls love the outfits but think we should have a leek, or Good King Henry, or chard festival since there is no fresh rhubarb around here!
Quimper Hittys 
Oh yum! But how was I not aware of Yorkshire’s Rhubarb Festival! My rhubarb is still sound asleep in the ground… but soon it will be poking up those crinkly leaves! I don’t get a huge quantity from my plant, but I do get enough to make a bit of rhubarb syrup… which makes the most delightful spring-time addition to a cocktail!
Rhubarb syrup sounds delightful! We love our jam, but I do have a cordial recipe to try (whenever the rhubarb decides to grace us with it’s presence).
It’s always good to have a Plan B. How lovely to celebrate this occasion with the jam!
We make many things with rhubarb – but our favourite is actually the jam. I do like the look of some of the recipes from the Wakefield Rhubarb festival though!
I noticed today that one of my Rhubarb crowns is beginning to emerge and I just hope we don’t have another sharp frost. Chard is coming up in the greenhouses too and they do look very similar so no wonder Malarky an Coriander got them confused.
A rhubarb crown! The Hittys want me to make them rhubarb crowns! I have been checking the spot where I thought the rhubarb should be but it appears to be sulking.
‘Crown’ is an odd word to use for a plant!
the chard is looking magnificent! I loved the celebration with jam and bread!
We like bread and jam, and Rhubarb and Strawberry jam is one of our favourite kinds!
How fun!
We like the idea of a Rhubarb festival but it should probably be in May in our Garden!