Joe Bloggs wrote onMon, 07 Apr 2003 13:41:37 +0100 :

I ate my first lot of rhubarb yesterday. Is this early ?
It was smashing.

Sorry Joe: we beat you by five days (April 2nd was when we picked ours.)
To be honest, we inherited it, together with instruction s to put the
big black plastic polant pots over the rhubarb as soon as we saw real
signs of growth. Worked perfectly.