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"A notoriously fickle vegetable to harvest" What? How? Its one of the easiest things to harvest ?!
by benj111 8y ago
"A notoriously fickle vegetable to harvest"
What? How? Its one of the easiest things to harvest ?!
- sevensor 8y agoI thought that was funny too. Once it's established, it keeps coming back, and you just need to take the stalks before it bolts.
- benj111 8y agoEven if it bolts you just need to snap of the flowering stem, you can still continue picking, and it doesn't even bolt that easily. The only plant I know to reliably bolt is in a local allotment and is 6ft across, and 3 ft tall (that's the root mass, not the leaves).
- sevensor 8y agoI think it tends to bolt more reliably once it's well established. My father and grandmother both had big plantings of rhubarb, and they would bolt by midsummer. I don't know why we never harvested it after that, maybe because it wasn't as sweet? Not that it was ever particularly sweet in the first place, but for all that, so delicious.
- jccalhoun 8y agoI'm assuming they meant it was hard to harvest it when grown in this manner because it used to grow outside my grandma's barn without anyone doing anything for it.