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The Rhubarb Triangle is a nine square mile triangle in West Yorkshire located between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell. The Rhubarb Triangle is frequently referred to as being located between Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield but this 70 square mile triangle is eight times bigger than, and doesn't even geographically cover, the real Rhubarb Triangle.
Only a few decades ago, more than 90% of the world's forced rhubarb crop was grown in this small area. Here rhubarb grows in forcing sheds while it is still winter, preceding the crop grown out-of-doors. There is even a rhubarb festival each February.
Rhubarb flourished in this part of the United Kingdom because it seems to have had the ideal combination of conditions necessary to cultivate rhubarb on a large scale. These included:
- suitable soil,
- sufficient rainfall,
- supplies of soot and ash to condition the soil,
- cheap fuel to heat the sheds,
- large numbers of small market gardeners.
Forced rhubarb grown in these sheds is deemed to be much more tender than that grown outdoors in
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