This month, your humble fruit correspondent will, technically speaking, be treading on the toes of some of the many other experts that write for and talk about a vegetable for a change. Don't worry, I wouldn't dare tell you how to grow the perfect parsnip or give you my tips for a mammoth pumpkin – instead we're in the blurred no man's land between fruit and vegetables, where you can find tomatoes (a fruit, but treated as a vegetable) and today's topic, rhubarb (a vegetable that is treated as a fruit). First, we'll go over the essentials for growing, focusing on flavour. Then we'll look in depth at forcing techniques
