Rhubarb is quick to plant, simple to grow, and looks great in a perennial bed. It grows enormous leaves on long, thick stalks and provides bountiful harvests every spring for years. High-quality ...
Rhubarb grown from seed will take a year longer to produce stalks, and even then, the plants aren't guaranteed to be true to type. We recommend buying one-year-old plants, known as 'crowns', that ...
Most packs of rhubarb weigh about 400g/14oz so that is the quantity in the recipe, but if you’re growing your own, feel free to add one or two more stalks plus a teaspoon of caster sugar per stalk.
Thanks, Linda Davis. I met a Scandinavian chef years later who told me that when he was young his mum would give him tender young rhubarb stalks and a glass of sugar to snack on — which I found ...