Rare Red Stalk Tops Rhubarb (but is Rhubarb!)

🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.Learn more and register for Lemon Camp- - - Forced rhubarb is a winter specialty that's quite different from rhubarb grown outdoors: It's milder, more tender, and brightly coloured. Brian French and his wife Jeannette run Lennox Farm in Dufferin County, in Ontario. Along with field-grown rhubarb, they force rhubarb indoors during the winter. Brian French explains how to force rhubarb:The difference between forced and field-grown rhubarbConditions needed to force rhubarb over the winterVarieties of rhubarb for forcingGrowing rhubarb roots for forcingDigging rhubarb roots for forcingTips for growing rhubarb at home(Spoiler alert: Brian tells us whether it's really necessary to harvest by candlelight, as it's traditionally done!)To see photos of the rhubarb-forcing operation at Lennox Farm, see the blog post for this episode at Foodgardenlife.com.