This year, the late spring has held back the rhubarb crop by a fortnight so I only got to pick my first stalks today. The first stems are grown in forcers and because they never receive any daylight they are bright pink. The forcers bring the harvest forward by about a fortnight but they weaken the plant. Fortunately our rhubarb patch is so large and so abundant that half a dozen weakened plants will make little difference to the overall crop.
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