rhubarb – The Garden Smallholder

How to Force Rhubarb

If you’d like to get an earlier crop of rhubarb now is a good time to force it. Choose an

The weather has been settled and sunny for many days now, a pleasant respite from the rain allowing many hours of

As I froze my socks off in the garden today I thought about tucking into warm rhubarb crumble. This is how the Timperley

In January I forced my crown of Timperley Early rhubarb, using my rather stylish forcing jar. Stems are ready to

Last year I treated myself to a terracotta rhubarb forcer for my birthday, using the money I’d been given as a gift.

My Timperley Early rhubarb is ready for pulling, yay! As its name suggests it is one of the earliest to crop and known

I bought a year old crown of ‘Timperley early rhubarb last year. Once planted I pretty much ignored it, allowing it to

Brrr baby its cold outside! A hard frost descended upon the garden smallholding last night and turned it into a magical twinkling wonderland. I