Grub wrote:
Thanks David.

I finally have a fresh, still alive, root but now need a little advice
about growing it. I've heard soo many different conflicting
instructions I'm totally confused! I'm pretty sure now that I
shouldn't touch it for a year but I've read all about this forcing
business and in the Mirror today they have written that it only grows
pink if it IS forced.

Need a rhubarb expert to clarify for me! :s

I don't know anything about forcing or what that may have to do with
rhubarb. Grow it like other vegetables, full sun if possible, plenty of
manure and/or compost, water when dry etc. Plant it now. You can cut at
any time of year just make sure you leave the roots alone and leave a few
stems and leaves so that it can keep growing, cut the older stems and leave
the younger ones to grow bigger, it is fairly tough. When the clump is
large you can divide it and grow more clumps.

David