UK - Rural life - Commercial growing of Rhubarb in the Rhubarb Triangle

David Brook filling forcing sheds with 2 year old rhubarb roots from the fields, E. Oldroyd and sons Ltd, Carlton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK. February is high season for the forced rhubarb of the so-called 'Rhubarb Triangle' formed by Wakefield, Rothwell and Morley. These intensely flavoured plants with pink stems and yellow leaves - grown by candlelight and tended by hand in huge, heated forcing sheds - are one of the first culinary delights of the British winter.

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David Brook filling forcing sheds with 2 year old rhubarb roots from the fields, E. Oldroyd and sons Ltd, Carlton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK. February is high season for the forced rhubarb of the so-called 'Rhubarb Triangle' formed by Wakefield, Rothwell and Morley. These intensely flavoured plants with pink stems and yellow leaves - grown by candlelight and tended by hand in huge, heated forcing sheds - are one of the first culinary delights of the British winter.