Let’s talk rhubarb

There are few crops that you can grow which take such little effort to succeed as rhubarb. A good clump can keep you in tasty sticks for years. That said, if you are a connoisseur of rhubarb and dream of long, thin pink-red forced stems of sublime sweetness then that takes a bit more work. Rhubarb is classed as a fruit when it comes to eating it but biologically it is, of course, a vegetable.

HOW TO GROW

This is a plant that originated from Asia and so it prefers a cold, damp climate but does not