Rhubarb Sanvitos Summer
- A versatile rhubarb variety, ‘Sanvitos Summer’ will provide you with plenty of juicy stems from spring and through the summer.
- The eye catching vivid red stems are tender and stringless with a delicious, sweet and tangy flavour with well balanced acidity.
- Wonderful for cooking, making delicious rhubarb preserves and pies. Pick sparingly in the first year to allow your plants to establish, and from then on you’ll have an abundance of delicious rhubarb to pick year after year.
- Known as a ‘day-neutral’, ‘Sanvitos Summer’ crops heavily from spring until autumn with no summer dormancy.
- Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready to plant out for cropping next season.
Product Description
‘Sanvitos Summer’ is a versatile rhubarb that will produce delicious, juicy sticks in spring, and as a day-neutral variety, there is no summer dormancy. The vivid bright red stems are stringless and wonderfully tender with a delicious, sweet flavour and well balanced acidity, making it ideal for making tangy pies and preserves. Rhubarb is very easy and incredibly rewarding to grow. We suggest picking sparingly in the first year to allow your plants to establish, and you’ll be rewarded with armfuls of delicious rhubarb to harvest each year for many, many years to come! Perfect for planting in the vegetable garden but also ideal for a large container.
Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot ready to plant out for cropping next season.
What Is Supplied
Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot ready to plant out for cropping next season.
Plant Information
Top Tips
- To force stems for an earlier crop, cover the crown with a traditional forcing jar, bucket or upturned pot in late winter, ensuring that all light is blocked out.
- When the stems reach the top of the container, they are ready for harvesting. Forced stems are lighter-coloured, more tender and sweeter.
Care Guide
Planting your rhubarb
- Before planting, dig over the ground and remove all perennial weeds.
- Add compost or well-rotted manure into the soil. Don't add any additional fertiliser.
- Plant crowns in early spring in well-drained, fertile soil in full sun as soon as the ground is workable, when the roots are still dormant and before growth begins or plants are just beginning to leaf out.
- Potted plants can be planted out at any time.
- Dig large holes around twice the size of the root spread. Space rhubarb plants about 3 feet apart and plant the roots 2-5cm (1-2in) below the surface of the soil.
- After planting, mulch generously with a heavy layer of straw to retain moisture and discourage weeds.
Aftercare Advice for Rhubarb
- Water your plant well.
- Remove flower stalks as soon as they appear.
- When the top growth dies back in autumn, remove the dead leaves to expose the crown to frost - this will help break dormancy and ensure a good crop of stalks the following year.
- Divide rhubarb roots every 3 to 4 years when plants are dormant in early spring or autumn.
Harvesting Advice for Rhubarb
- For best results allow to establish for a season and pick sparingly in year two. Expect heavy crops thereafter.
- To pick, hold the stalk at the base and pull it out of the ground, aiming to avoid snapping it off.
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