You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes that we talk about in this podcast by heading to the links in the show notes or on our website at sarahavin.com. Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson and Sarah Raven.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about Dahlia's and Rubarb.

Two of our completely favourite plants, basically, aren't they, Arthur?

I mean, I practically feel I met you over Dalyas.

Yeah.

And I think we're so passionate about them.

I think we should talk about rhubarb first,

because otherwise it would get drowned out by our enthusiasm for Dalyas.

So tell me what you think about rhubarb and how you use it.

Well, I love seeing it.

It's one of those, I call it like a Beatrix Potter plant, really.

It's very much a Peter Rabbit kitchen vegetable garden staple, isn't it?

And I love seeing them chats with when I visit there.

There's always a lovely

avenue of the rhubarb forces that Glenn tenderly looks after. I mean, I dread to think how much

they're worth. They're the most gorgeous, you know, honey beehive-like shapes and those lovely

terracotta and they've all got their little lids on. And then, of course, you know, inside there's

going to be that gorgeous cordial pink and then that yellow stem when they're being forced. And

they're just a little, I mean, certainly if I had a big garden, I would have a rhubarb bed. And I know at

Perchal, you've got your rhubarb bed near to the chickens. Yeah. So it's lovely to see. And I think you used to interplant the rhubarb with gladioli.

Yeah.

Because the thing I worry about is I love to see a big bed of rhubarb, but often I think,

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