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Description
- Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit
- Early harvests, ready in winter
- The perfect comfort food for making winter desserts
- Forcing variety for tender, sweeter young stems
The variety for the earliest outdoor crops and also suitable for gently forcing. Timperley Early is a popular variety for home-growers on account of its readiness for eating as early as February.
February is a great month for harvesting rhubarb as it's cold outside and hot stewed rhubarb is comfort food, great for preparing in the kitchen.
Grow in rich, moist compost: the roots of your rhubarb crowns will appreciate the nutrients in abundance and promote thick healthy stems, pink, tart and full of flavour.
If harvesting stalks in the first year, pick sparingly so that the remaining stalks give your crowns enough power to generate stronger on-going plants in subsequent years that give you many more stalks.
How you will receive your plants:
Selected by our team of experts and sent from our nursery, you will receive your rhubarb crown carefully packaged in paper bags.
Can’t plant straight away?
If you can’t plant your rhubarb crowns straight away, store them in a cool place and keep the roots moist. We recommend you plant your crowns as soon as possible, within a couple of days of receiving them.
Planting tips and hints:
Planting in containers: We recommend you grow your rhubarb crowns on in a pot for around a month before planting out. Plant in a large pot of compost with the growing point level with the top of the compost. Water regularly but avoid waterlogging.
Planting in the ground: Plant the crown so that the top is just visible above the surface of the soil, with the roots spread out. Space crowns around 75-90cm apart. Water well after planting.
Aftercare: Water well during dry periods and feed in summer with a general purpose fertiliser. Don’t harvest any stems in the first year, and only a few stems in the second year. After the second year, harvest as needed, stopping in July to allow the plant to build up reserves for the following year.
Click here to view our full rhubarb growing guide.
Growing Calendar
Delivery
We know how important your garden is to you. We've listened to our customers and introduced a new improved speedy delivery service, meaning Express delivery comes as standard.
*Orders to Northern Ireland have an automatic additional £3.00 delivery surcharge applied at checkout.
| Order Type | Delivery Charge | Delivery Charge |
| Seed only order | £2.99 | If you purchase any other items you'll be charged the standard delivery rate of £4.95 |
| Plants, bulbs & gardening accessories | £4.95 | If we need to split your order into separate deliveries we'll only charge one delivery fee |
| Extra large or long plants & heavy items | £9.99 | These are clearly displayed at check-out |
| Compost (and any other large or heavy items) | £4.95 | These items are subject to a delivery multiplier where orders containing 3 or 4 items will be subject to an additional £4.95 for every further 2 items added. This is automatically applied at check-out:
If you'd like more than 10 bags of compost please call our Customer Service team who can arrange for a bespoke competitive quote on 01480 774555 (standard network charges apply) |
For more detail on specific delivery queries and compost delivery please click here
Delivery to outside of Great Britain
We regret we are unable to deliver any items outside of some Great Britain delivery addresses. This includes Europe, Channel Islands, Republic of Ireland, USA and Rest of World. We will update our website if this changes.
We now deliver to Northern Ireland, additional delivery surcharges automatically apply at checkout.
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