Today's gardening achievements

My motivation for getting out into the cold winds today was two new rhubarb crowns that I bought yesterday.

They're now safely potted and watered, so fingers crossed they grow well.

This brings my current total number of rhubarb plants to eight. I have two plants each of:

• Victoria
• Red Dragon
• Ever Red

I also have just one plant each of:

• Wandin Red (crown from a dividing of my nanna's Wandin Red rhubarb)
• Giant Victorious

Call me crazy, but I still have a couple more rhubarb varieties that I'd like to get. Annoyingly, they're proving difficult to find this year. 

I remember last year there were a dozen rhubarb types on offer between the various nurseries that I like visiting. One nursery manager explained that it varies from year to year depending on what they're able to order in from their suppliers. this year, it has obviously been difficult to get last year's wide variety in.

I also did a lot of weeding in preparation for when I plan to put pine bark mulch down in the non-garden bed areas so that I can walk on the pine bark instead of clay mud. Unfortunately I forgot to take 'before' photos, so you'll just have to take my word that despite appearances, there were a lot more weeds in this section before I started! (I pulled the biggest ones out first)