It's always gone dormant for us here in Central California when it gets hot enough, but it always stars up again when things cool off. (We were also told to stop harvesting in summer.) It didn't seem to affect the following year's harvest. This year I got four plants of a new variety that's supposed to be "everbearing". We'll see in a couple of years what it does. Rheum rhabarbarum 'Glaskins Perpetual' is the variety. Has anyone tried it? I imagine four plants will be way too many! Lin On 2020-01-12 20:08, Garak wrote: > Hi all, > > My Rhubarb also started to go dormant in recent extreme summers in Germany, which I do hink weakens the plants a lot. That set aside I'm surprised to see rhubarb harvested after June - in Germany we're advised not to do so because of the rising content in oxalic acid with warmer weather. > > Martin > > Am 13.01.2020 um 01:01 schrieb David Pilling: Hi, > > On 12/01/2020 23:07, Brian Whyer via pbs wrote: I would have said the same normally for the UK. > Mine (UK) always goes dowmant, seems to do it no harm. > > Quote from UK plant company website > > "Rhubarb Livingstone -Plants 2ltr pot > £12.99 each > > Good in pots and containers Will flower well in full sun > Livingstone is the very latest in British Rhubarb breeding and is the only variety to have eliminated summer dormancy - which causes rhubarb to stop cropping by the middle of summer. This means it crops when others run out of steam! It produces delicious deep red stringless stems up to November. > " _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…