RHUBARB: GROWING FOR FLAVOR
During the dark winter months, it is almost inevitable that the mind starts to wander towards the coming spring with the promise of slightly warmer weather, lengthening days and the first new shoots full of hope and expectation for the year ahead. This month we are going to look at one of the earliest crops for the fruit grower – rhubarb. Before you start sending in letters, yes I know that technically it’s a vegetable, but it is generally considered a fruit and used as such, so we’ll treat it as part of the fruit garden for the purposes of this article.
Eagle-eyed readers may remember that I covered rhubarb early last year. Then we looked at
