Forcing rhubarb is a great way to encourage your crops to be ready for harvest earlier in the year. By extending your rhubarb season, you can enjoy it for much longer. Plus, forced rhubarb is much sweeter, so it is lovely to use in desserts. They can be forced from December to February, and [...]

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January is usually a quiet month in the garden but there are still things that can be done now to help with the growing year ahead. And one of those relates to rhubarb. Rhubarb is actually classified as a perennial vegetable but treated as a fruit.  It normally starts to produce long [...]

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At this time of year, the fall in temperatures and creeping approach of dark winter nights always gets me looking forward to Christmas and the new year. Forcing bulbs for Christmas is a great way to plan ahead for the festive season. Get planting now and you’ll have a house full of brilliant to keep [...]

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