Forcing Rhubarb

I have to say I think it's you Chief, seems perfectly normal to me ?


Fritz Von Are Catalina's pretty aeroplanes or Wot ?

A thread about forcing rhubarb? Links to a rhubarb information site? Perfectly normal eh?

Woody

Forced Rhubarb is a big industry in Yorkshire.

I paid nearly £10.00 ( well my host did)for some in a restaurant a few years ago but my taste buds were dulled by a bit too much wine, so I cannot accurately remember the taste.

Food is a sensory pleasure just like music.

Regards

Mick

Mick,

I'm certainly not disagreeing with you re: sensory pleasure to be derived from food - maybe I'm just not a rhubarb conoisseur!

If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

Now tell me what you know.

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If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

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Howard

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Originally posted by Adam Meredith:

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Originally posted by Mick Parry:
Chaps
If I went out and bought a Rhubarb forcer, could I ask one of you to shove Fritz inside the thing.
Regards
Mick

£150 seems a trifle profligate when the alternative is a £5 dustbin.

Mick is wondering if Illy makes rhubarb forcers...

I must say I'd never heard of rhubarb-forcing until I came across this thread, but if there was ever a time when a rhubarb-forcing thread was more welcome than now I am not aware of it.

Wot's Illy ? Deano me old thing

Mick,

I don't know the variety of the Rhubarb I grow. I only know that like all other edible fruit/veg, choosing the right variety makes a huge difference. I suppose you could do a google search.

There's nothing to match the Professional Haws range of cans. I use the No4 coarse rose, which doesn't clog with fertlizer granules and waters faster. The only other can I use is a Japanese stainless steel for my Bonsai. This is even longer reaching, with an ultra fine rose (which clogs).

2 pages on Rhubarb.. perhaps it's a "youf" thing but I'm staggered.

For those of you out there that aren't aware of that great saying "I reckon he was talking a right load of old rhubarb" or similar, means just about what you imagine it to mean, and is a well coined phrase, especially popular in the South Western parts of England, where it is most often needed, innit.


Fritz Von Not needing to force the issue as it comes naturally in here, or so it seems to me `?

Count'd

I also use the Number 4 rose unless I am watering seedling in which case I use the number2/3 which, as you say, often clogs.

I suspect I will go for this forcer. Very plain but superb quality.

http://www.whichfordpottery.com/PotDetailS.asp

Regards

Mick

Call me an old pedant Sir Michael. (call me anything you like) But does one start growing the small rhubarb plant inside the forcer? Or do you have to place that thing over a mature plant? If the latter we are talking "manpower"!

Perhaps you should add the cost of the crane hire to the cost of the pot(s)? That, or start working out regularly at the gym.

Now I've seen your quarry I'd be looking at a nice victorian chimney pot, or two, from an architectural salvage firm. Walcot Reclamation in Bath will do you a splendid original chimney pot for much less than this lot and it will look so much more "lived-in". Or there may be local builders who can put a couple of nice old chimney pots your way for a brace of tenners.

Regards
Nime

Don’t know how you like your rhubarb, but I think a crumble is a perfect way to enjoy it. To make it a bit special place a few strawberries (thinly sliced) on top of the rhubarb before covering with the crumble, excellent, and always with custard,
John.

That sounds excellent Dave

As an old Goon fan I was terribly interested in this topic.

You're not Prince Charles in disguise are you Sir?

What are you forcing the rhubarb to do?

Misbehave!

Can we now talk about roo on the barbie??