Rhubarb - What Else To Use It For?

[ducks4you]

Thanks, Rosalind!! I was starting to salivate over making some Rubarb Squares!! ....and, now, I can!

 

[hangin'witthepeeps]

Ok, I'm a complete gardening idiot. I can only follow directions and somehow I have a garden. I have never seen Rhubarb, but I have heard of it. So where do I buy it and how does is come (seed or root?)? I did a Google and it looks very pretty.

 

[patandchickens]

You can get rhubarb seeds, although not much choice of variety (not that there's THAT much difference among rhubarb varieties, IMO). It will be at least 3 yrs before you get a harvesting-size plant from seed.

Most people either buy bareroot or potted plants, or get divisions from friends/relatives/neighbors who are dividing their own rhubarb. Division is usually done in spring just as the first leaves are starting to show; potted plants can be put in anytime during the growing season.

It grows very well in cold-winter areas, not so well in the South where there is no winter to speak of.

Pat

 

[BetterHensandGardens]

Wow, lots of yummy sounding things to do with rhubarb - thanks guys!
I'm off to start harvesting Well, ok, I guess I have to wait until tomorrow..............

 

[Grow 4 Food]

Ducks - Grandpa always says that if there is a bit of a frost all you need to do is wait 4-5 days and the poison that backed out of the leaves into the stems will go back where it came from.

 

[ducks4you]

Thanks!! It's always good to refer to the experts. MY grandfather learned to garden from necessity during the Great Depression. He had a job, but no income from it. He took the clay soil around Cleveland, amended it, and even when I was a kid in the 1960's-70's he still had the most beautiful lawn and vegetables that could win awards.

 

[PotterWatch]

You can always send rhubarb to me! I love the stuff, but it doesn't grow well here .

 

[lesa]

The rhubarb squares came out great! Served with a little vanilla ice cream... yum, yum!

 

[beavis]

Raw rhubarb with a bit of salt.

YUM!!!!!!!!!

 

[hoodat]

I finally have rhubarb again that's old enough to start harvesting (see http://www.betterhensandgardens.com/2010/04/18/growing-rhubarb/) and we use it for pies, but what else does everyone use it for? Looking for new ideas - it's the first thing I can actually harvest here!

Reminds me of an old joke, (Come to think of it I AM an old joke)

The new bride proudly set something unidentifiable in front of the hubby.
"What's that?"
"It's a pie"
"Why is it long and thin?"
"It's a rhubarb pie silly".