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Covering rhubarb crowns with a pot over the colder months is at the heart of 'forcing' rhubarb. Forcing rhubarb produces earlier stems that are tender and sweeter to eat.

Sometimes known as 'pie fruit', rhubarb can actually be used in both sweet and savory dishes.

Cold sweet dishes Rhubarb Shape and Rhubarb Jelly, recipes from 1930, can use up generous quantities of forced rhubarb from late spring and into early summer.

Rhubarb is an extremely hardy vegetable, that is very easy to grow. Even the novice gardener can manage to produce healthy, tasty stems of rhubarb.

Pectin is the nature 'glue' in plants that is what makes fruit jam set. Avoid disappointment when making fruit preserves by knowing the basic pectin content of fruits.