The highlights
- Delicate and sweet flavour profile
- Suitable for forcing
- Makes a wonderful rhubarb-infused gin
- Harvest from April to June
Description
- A tried and trusted old rhubarb variety that’s reliable and easy to grow, with sweet and delicious slender stems
- A good choice for forcing to produce pink-tinged stalks – or grow unforced for a deeper red colour
- Early variety – harvest from the second year onwards, between April and June
- Fully hardy and long lived, you’ll be picking rhubarb from these plants for around ten years
- Perfect for a sunny border, vegetable bed, allotment or even a large container
- Delicious in pies, crumbles and jams
- Only eat the stalks – rhubarb leaves are poisonous to humans and pets
