I’m harvesting the same rhubarb planted by my great grandfather, Robert Fraser. It's possibly Glenurquhart in provenance. This pic shows it in 1909 but it could be older. Six generations of rhubarb eaters can’t be wrong. Now available at Root Down, Portobello.
@JAFMacDonald I think there's someone else on here with a "Rhubarb of provenance". Is it you @oldscotbooks ?
@cocteautriplets @oldscotbooks <braces for rhubarb rivalry>
@cocteautriplets @oldscotbooks I see what you did there
@JAFMacDonald @oldscotbooks I'd join in, but mine came from B&Q 4 years ago...
@cocteautriplets @JAFMacDonald @oldscotbooks One of my favourite rhubarb related anecdotes is that in 1745 when the Lord President Duncan Forbes hurried out of Edinburgh in advance of the Jacobites, he was raging that he didn't take enough rhubarb to the extent that he sent his servant back to the occupied city to get more