The highlights
- Excellent levels of sweetness
- Award of Garden Merit winner
- Whip up a rhubarb syllabub
- Harvest from February
Description
- One of the earliest rhubarb varieties, Timperley Early produces plenty of strong, red-pink stems with a delicious flavour which can be harvested as early as February
- The best choice for forcing
- Early variety – harvest from the second year onwards, between March (or even February) 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
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
