Rhubarb Forcer
Rhubarb is fantastic to grow in the garden. It is one of the easiest fruit that you can grow in the garden and allotment. You can grow so much that you have to store your rhubarb by freezing it and give your friends bundles to make crumbles and pies with. Here we will be giving you the benefits of using a rhubarb forcer to grow your it with.
A Rhubarb forcer is usually a bell shaped pot which has a lid on top of it. The forcer is usually a terracotta pot but some people improvise using a bucket or an old metal bin.
The job of a rhubarb forcer is to limit photosynthesis when it just starts growing at the beginning of the year. It will encourage it to start growing early at the start of the year.
As well as helping the rhubarb grow in the garden a it looks attractive and extreamly artistic in the garden and allotment.
A forcer can also be used on chicory and asparagus to help you get great crops in the garden and allotment.
These are extremely popular with gardeners and they will last you many years in the garden. Helping you to get a great harvest of rhubarb to pick
Allotment and Kitchen Garden Book
Are you starting an allotment or planning on growing your own fruit, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in a kitchen garden? If so we highly recommend the book Allotment Month By Month. This does exactly what it does on the cover to help you with what you should be doing in the allotment and kitchen garden each month. Below you can see the link for Amazon where you can purchase the book directly. This book is extremely popular with all allotment holders as you will read in the reviews:-
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How to use a rhubarb forcer
To use a forcer you need to cover the 3 year old plant at the start of the year when the plant is not growing so that no light can get to the plant – make sure the lid is left on the terracotta pot. When you start to see the shoots coming on the plant you can take the lid off the terracotta rhubarb forcer. This will then encourage the rhubarb to grow towards the light causing it to grow upwards. The rhubarb will be ready in just around 8 weeks.
Rhubarb Forcer For Sale
Here you can purchase one for the garden to help get the great harvests and early crops in the garden.
Overview:-
- Get a great crop and a head start in picking crops in the garden.
- Speeds up rhubarb harvests
- Plastic terracotta rhubarb forcer – will last years
- Replica of the old Victorian style – light to move and will not damage as easy
- Helps you rhubarb become more juicy, tender and sweeter.
- Comes with a lid and a handle
Purchase a rhubarb forcer
Here you can purchase the it directly from Amazon. To purchase you are looking at around £70 but it is well worth the money for great harvests. Click the amazon link and picture below to purchase or find out more information.
You can find out more hints and tips for growing fruit and vegetables here on our website.
We hope you have found these tips useful. You can find out where to purchase rhubarb crowns here if you need any. Find out how to grow rhubarb in pots here. If you want to know about how to force rhubarb you can find out our tips here.
