There are Rhubarb Seeds?

As a child I grew up loving rhubarb. It grew in my grandmother’s garden and during the summer we’d pick it and dip the raw rhubarb in a bag of sugar, and nibble on it. As an adult with a garden of my own, I wondered where you bought rhubarb plants, and was surprised to learn, contrary to my belief that it grew wild, that you could actually buy rhubarb seeds!

I came upon this revelation quite by chance! I was going through a gardening magazine when a direct mailing seed magazine fell out. Glancing through it I found pictures of beautifully grown rhubarb. I was thrilled! Rhubarb would come to my garden after all! I sent off for a packet of seeds immediately!

The seed packets arrived, together with a full seed catalogue and an offer for a gardening magazine which made the process of planting a garden with vegetables look easy enough even for me to manage – according to its advertising anyway. I knew I could use some gardening tips from the experts! Whilst waiting for the first issue of the magazine I planted my seeds and watched for the first signs of rhubarb to show.

The Seeds of Success Sprout!

A few nail-biting weeks went by and the area seeded with my precious rhubarb remained silent. Then it happened. The morning I’d been waiting for arrived. There, just barely visible above the ground were the first shoots of rhubarb. The seeds had worked. The magazine hadn’t lied about how easy it was to grow rhubarb after all!

Today there’s enough rhubarb in the garden to feed the entire street. I no longer need to plant seeds as rhubarb replenishes itself each year. Occasionally I manage to get two crops of rhubarb a year!

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