One of the rhubarb crowns in our rhubarb bed has decided to start to grow now. It has been covered with a 25 litre barrel and the darkness will produce long pink stalks of very tender, sweet, forced rhubarb.A few stalks will be pulled and then the crown will be left alone for the rest of the season to recover. If you keep harvesting the stalks will keep coming but it will ruin the crown, leaving it fit only for the compost bin. A little bit of forcing and then a good rest will cause no lasting harm. I force a different crown each year to ensure no one crown is worn out.
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