Raymond Blanc’s team share practical advice on growing, forcing and harvesting rhubarb for dependable crops every year.
Let’s set the record straight: Rhubarb is a vegetable, though it’s often put to the same culinary uses as fruit. Think jellies, sauces and pies. The confusion on rhubarb’s standing in the food world ...
Rhubarb, legally a fruit but botanically a vegetable, thrives in sunny locations with fertile, well-drained soil. Planting rhubarb crowns is recommended over seeds, and fertilizing established plants ...
The cool weather this spring has been good for rhubarb plants. After emerging in early May, the thick, tangy stalks are ready for harvesting to be turned into pie, sauce, jam and rhubarb bread. Early ...
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 ...