It’s probably way too early to get excited about this – what with the bulk of the winter still to go – but it turns out that if you want to murder rhubarb, dismembering it with a mattock and burying it alive in horseshit is not particularly effective.
We won’t be able to harvest it until next year, but as I suspect 2019 will be one of those ‘take your good news where you can find it’ years (see also, 2016, 2017, 2018) I’m posting this now before it has a chance to go pearshaped.
Asparagus next …
Town Mouse 
It’s always good to see rhubarb appearing. If it grows well I’d be temped to pick a few stems. xx
@Flighty – yes, maybe! I may have planted too many crowns too – I wasn’t expecting them all to survive
My rhubarb is up as well. However yesterday I saw my first daffodil which is the earliest I can recall. Now sit down and brace yourself – my asparagus started to sprout in mid December. Mind you it is now looking very cold!
I planted two year old crowns last spring so in theory this is year three, I might even get a meal….