"John Savage" wrote in message
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On the local Sydney radio gardening program, a caller rang in to ask
about the colour of her rhubarb, it not being as red as it usually is.
The gardening expert said that temperatures above 25C cause rhubarb to
not develop its full colour, and that the 3 or 4 days earlier in the month
when our temperatures (it's Summer here) were well above 25C would be the
cause.

I've never heard of this. My parents have had rhubarb growing for over
40 years, and even in mid-Summer when their daytime temperatures are
rarely under 25C for weeks on end their plants always had plenty of red
stems.

SNIP

25C? I should be so lucky! It's more like 25F here in UK this morning.
Scraped ice off the windscreen at 0630, what fun. Oh, and my rhubarb hasn't
all put it's head above the parapet yet.

Steve