Anyone else?
2 crowns are well through and black-binned 8)
Don't force them all, will you?
No Tim, the 2 crowns that are through....? :)
The first rhubarb of the year is always delicious, may the force be with you.
@ okra ;D...many thanks!
Did you see them harvesting the other day on BBC News? Lovely sight!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mostof_forcedrhubarb.shtml#the_'wakefield_triangle'
Nice link Tim. I remember seeing it growing on a TV programme some years ago. Fascinating - if a little scary!
btw.....what's everyone's fave rhubarb please?
My bub isn't growing yet. Should I cover a crown now or wait until actual growth is under way?
Looked this up the other day & fairly sure it said to cover when you could see the first growth.
aha, thanks caroline. I will take a bucket up when I go just in case.
Personally, I think it's cruel ... ;)
apparently im now in the ranks of "rhubarb forcers".was on the plot today and was suprised to see the wifes grandad...............(who was supposed to be holding my fence posts straight)..........chucking a tin bucket over my sprouting crowns........
when he`d explained what he was doing and why i reconsidered my opinion that he`d lost it.and was trying to kill my plants!
;D ;D ;D @ MM
Quote from: Trixiebelle on January 28, 2007, 13:56:14
Personally, I think it's cruel ... ;)
like thinning ... ::)