Rhubarb seeds

A._Badger

I'd recommend Timperely Early if you are a newcomer to rhubarb. There may be other varieties with special qualities but in my experience it's really reliable.

Buy a pot-grown specimen from a good garden centre (being pot grown you can plant it at any time) and you'll fund it hard to go wrong.

Hope that helps.

Farway

B & Q and others are having a clear out, no doubt getting the Christmas stock in already, so could be worth while just checking if you are near a DIY shed, never know could be some offers

culpepper

Ive got two rhubarb patches,one from seed the other crowns.
All the crowns took but of the seeds, about a quarter have died.
I believe seeds will fluctuate in type and it seems so with mine as some are big and thick rhubarb stalks this year while others are thinner and lighter coloured.
Either way,you are advised to leave off harvesting at all in the first year of putting in the ground to let them build up strength.
I sowed my seed in pots and planted out when they looked like proper little rhubarb plants.