{"id":2536,"date":"2019-02-11T15:57:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2019-02-11T15:57:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:57:36","slug":"forcing-rhubarb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/forcing-rhubarb\/","title":{"rendered":"Forcing Rhubarb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/forcing-pots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2540\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/forcing-pots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/asparagus-lead-image-1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forcing Rhubarb is the process of covering the crown of your plant to exclude all light and speed up growth.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can start forcing Rhubarb from December -January, cover the crowns of your plant with straw then place a bucket or rhubarb pot on top, the clay pots look nice and traditional but can be expensive to buy a bucket works just as well.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When we exclude the light the plants natural reaction is to grow longer to find the light. You may have seen this before when seedlings grow \u2018leggy\u2019 searching for light.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The rhubarb when forced will grow long smooth stems quicker than the unforced,by keeping the rhubarb covered for approximately 8 weeks this will give you a much earlier crop, and more tender stems.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It&#8217;s important that you don&#8217;t try to force the same crown again the following year as the plant will need to recover.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forcing Rhubarb is the process of covering the crown of your plant to exclude all light and speed up growth. You can start forcing Rhubarb from December -January, cover the crowns of your plant&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}