Raymond Blanc’s team share practical advice on growing, forcing and harvesting rhubarb for dependable crops every year.
Rhubarb is a perennial vegetable that is primarily used as a fruit in cooking. It grows best in full sun and fertile, well-drained soil. Rhubarb should not be harvested the first year it is planted to ...
You walk out one chilly spring morning, coffee in hand, and there they are.Those knobbly pink rhubarb noses, punching up ...
As the days get longer and the weather warmer, there's subtle anticipation for the next season’s crops among farmers and customers alike. These days, we're starting to see lots of new green growth in ...
Gardener Nadya Pearson, from Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, shares her top ...
One of the first things to sprout in the garden each spring is rhubarb. Nothing is more reliable than this plant. The people who live in southern states probably haven’t even heard of rhubarb because ...
Years ago, when my now-grown daughter Justine was a toddler, we visited a U-pick farm where she plucked plump, ripe strawberries from a field of sprawling plants. Some made it into the basket on that ...
Dear Master Gardener: Can you tell me if mowing off my rhubarb will kill or hurt it. My lawn boys mowed off my rhubarb. What should I do? Answer: As long as you still have some root in the ground it ...