Have you ever wondered how to grow rhubarb? Delicious in a cake, compote, or crumble with custard, the elegant pink and green ...
Rhubarb is a perennial vegetable that is primarily used as a fruit in cooking. It grows best in full sun and fertile, well-drained soil. Rhubarb should not be harvested the first year it is planted to ...
Let’s set the record straight: Rhubarb is a vegetable, though it’s often put to the same culinary uses as fruit. Think jellies, sauces and pies. The confusion on rhubarb’s standing in the food world ...
Rhubarb, legally a fruit but botanically a vegetable, thrives in sunny locations with fertile, well-drained soil. Planting rhubarb crowns is recommended over seeds, and fertilizing established plants ...
Many gardeners make the mistake of ignoring rhubarb in winter and cause it to rot, but there is a easy 10 minute task that ...
The tart stalks of rhubarb are used in pies, tarts, sauces, jams, jellies, puddings and punch. Rhubarb also is easy to grow and long-lived. Good cultivars for the Midwest, all with attractive red ...
Jun. 25—This story was originally published in 2018. When it comes to starting rhubarb and keeping it going, it's worth looking at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension's bulletin on growing ...
Q: My daughter and her husband have two very large vines growing in the yard of the new home they purchased. The vines seem overgrown, and we’re wondering how much to cut back. We even wonder if they ...
The secret to the world’s sweetest rhubarb? Sealed sheds, total darkness and a little old-fashioned flair Corey Buhay Farmer Robert Tomlinson harvests forced rhubarb by candlelight on his farm in ...
Rhubarb is an ideal edible plant for many home gardeners, and another example of the few vegetable plants which are perennial, meaning that they regrow year after year after initial planting. While ...