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Growing Guides How to grow rhubarb

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Date Published:
07/02/2008

Varieties to try

There are lots of rhubarb varieties that are easy to grow and some of the best include:

Champagne

An early variety with sweet-tasting pink-tinged stems.

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Fultons Strawberry Surprise

A vigorous grower with vivid red colouring.

Stockbridge Arrow

An early, largely trouble-free variety that has a long cropping season and produces tender red-pink stems.

Timperley Early

A flavoursome pink-stemmed type which is perfect for forcing or normal cropping.


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  1. Having moved to Bulgaria in March 2009 , we brought with us two rubarb plants that took really well over here . We have had some really good pickings off it up to now . Please can anyone advise on the best way to protect the plants with the oncoming winter . Also do i cut back remaining leaves or just leave them to die down on there own .Thanking you .
    Posted by ANN MOSS on 12/10/2009 10:44:14
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  2. some useful tips but not sure if you should just leave the rhubarb to die back or cut down in the autum
    Posted by k. collinson on 30/07/2009 12:25:36
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  3. How much rhubarb will each plant produce?
    Posted by L.Mahoney on 14/06/2009 17:43:09
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