Hi all, My Rhubarb also started to go dormant in recent extreme summers in Germany, which I do hink weakens the plants a lot. That set aside I'm surprised to see rhubarb harvested after June - in Germany we're advised not to do so because of the rising content in oxalic acid with warmer weather. Martin Am 13.01.2020 um 01:01 schrieb David Pilling: > Hi, > > On 12/01/2020 23:07, Brian Whyer via pbs wrote: >> I would have said the same normally for the UK. > > Mine (UK) always goes dowmant, seems to do it no harm. > > > Quote from UK plant company website > > "Rhubarb Livingstone -Plants 2ltr pot > £12.99 each > > Good in pots and containers Will flower well in full sun > Livingstone is the very latest in British Rhubarb breeding and is the > only variety to have eliminated summer dormancy – which causes rhubarb > to stop cropping by the middle of summer. This means it crops when > others run out of steam! It produces delicious deep red stringless > stems up to November. > " > -- Martin ---------------------------------------------- Southern Germany Likely zone 7a _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…