Choosing the right stalks of rhubarb to cut?

The variety of rhubarb plant does not matter - you harvest all of them the same way, from the outside in. Do not cut the stalks, but try to pull them from the core of the plant right at soil level. Take the browning leafed ones first before they die, but the choice of longest thinnest or thickest is yours - the taste is the same. Trim the ends of the stalks outdoors, but never put the leaves in a compost bin - for some reason that stops the action of the compost. Rhubarb leaves are poisonous!

Left alone but regularly harvested, rhubarb will spread and multiply. Leaving only one or two seed pods to mature and go to seed speeds this, but cut off the center seed pod from all other rhubarb plants - it makes the stalks more bitter ...

Rhubarb is actually a perennial vegetable, so adding compost in the early spring helps it thrive. Some Europeans serve it as a vegetable dish, but most North Americans use it as a fruit dessert in many ways ...

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You should stop harvesting rhubarb at the end of July and allow it to put goodness back into the plant for next year. The stalks that have leaves going brown may not be any good and will need to be put on the compost heap or else you will get slugs and snails. Pull the long and the thick stalks to allow light into the centre of the plant. Just pull them as they are ready. One sure test if the stalks are ok to eat is to snap them in two - if there is a crisp snapping sound then they are right to eat, I just pull all those that are ready from March onwards.rhubarb will freeze very easily too. I am surprised if you are only just pulling rhubarb now.

If flowers stalks should appear cut them off at once or you will have no rhubarb to eat. In the autumn you can dig up the root and leave it lying on the surface which is good for it. You can also divide the crown if it's getting too big. You can also force the rhubarb by putting a chimney, forcer, or old bucket over the top in Januaryfor early succulent stems.