Rhubarb!

I've been quite restrained when harvesting my rhubarb this year, as I wanted to ensure a good crop next year.  With the combination of warm weather and the occasional torrential downpour, it's grown like a triffid, and has a good 30 stalks (again).

So, is it really too late to do a last harvest?  And if not, am I better taking the thinner stalks as opposed to the wider, more fibrous ones?

Mags 

Oh no - are you meant to stop picking it?? Did just that today.  Seems to be growing back OK. I shall stop now then.

Apart from a very early few stalks, my plants, old and new, have been rested this year. I didn't mean to, as I had designated my best huge plant for rhubarb wine, but I never got around to it. Wine making in particular needs to heed when we pick the rhubarb, in other words, not too late, and now is too late in my understanding of the  acid thing. Next year the big huge bush really will be plundered for wine and then dug up ... my other plants are coming along nicely and will do the desert thing. That's the plan.

The Spanish here do not know what rhubarb is.  I sowed some seed in February and I now have about 5 plantlets growing on nicely.