Yay!!! Happy to help!

I moved last summer and was delighted to discover it had a huge rhubarb patch next to the front door! It's getting torn up by my dog's tie out though so I'm hoping to transplant the whole patch this fall to a better location! But I can't wait to make some delicious stuff from it this year! Need a good crumble soon.

Thanks!

Yes! People have told me they used to do that when they were kids! Having cooked with it now I can see how that would be tasty! I don't remember eating them at all. Neither of my parents like rhubarb so they haven't touched it in forever. Wouldn't even try my crumble!

@@WickedAwesomeGardening Oh man I'm gonna go try some!

Do it!!!

I hear you can also make a delicious rhubarb gin and ginger drink

@@WickedAwesomeGardening Yummy!

I'm definitely going to divide it and bring some to my new place when I can finally buy!

Takes up space with those huge leaves but I'm thinking totally worth it!

Totally worth it. The strawberry rhubarb crumble I made was aaaammmaaazzziiiinnngggf

Right? When I've I'm dividing this thing and taking it with me!

😃 thank you!

And it grows back so fast! It's already just about ready to harvest again!

@@WickedAwesomeGardening fabulous! Do you have tips for getting the plant to grow more thick & juicy stalks?

@@TheSuburbanGardenista Not yet. I'm still learning :) I just know that you never cut it because then the rest of the stalk will just die and not trigger new shoots to grow. If you pull it straight from the base that signals to the plant that it's lost a stalk and needs to grow more. :)

@@WickedAwesomeGardening such a fabulous tip! Definitely changing our method from this point on!

Another interesting tidbit: While it's most commonly used in desserts and jams, it's not a fruit! It's a vegetable!

Give this a shot! It's super easy and soooo good! Only thing I would have changed would be maybe reducing the sugar a little bit. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kLplp7Zzzri1aIk.html

It's like a jumbled up piece of pie 😁

It's soo good!

Yup! I do that with any veggies/fruits I freeze

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It was so great! Ready to harvest more now!

Literally no one has paid this plant any attention in decades. It's been 100% ignored. Give it a try! :)

It should? It's fairly heat tolerant so with the shade it could work!

I'm posting a video on the strawberry rhubarb crumble later this week. It was heaven!

🤣 I'll give you the recipe I used for the strawbery rhubarb crumble! Mmmmm so good! One thing I might change though is a bit less sugar. Delicious but wow so sweet. Needs more tang.

Strawberry rhubarb crumble video coming on Thursday!

So you can actually eat the flower buds believe it or not! Just the buds, not any part of the flower stalks. Too much oxalic acid like the basal leaves! But for me, I cut the flower stalks as soon as I see it coming up and chuck in in the compost bin. That will force the plant into growing more stalks and send energy down into the root system, making for bigger better rhubarb!

Not poisonous exactly. You would have to eat quite a bit to make yourself sick. But they are totally safe for compost! The oxalic acid breaks down and dissipates very quickly!

100% you can compost them. The compound in rhubarb that is toxic to humans and most animals is oxalic acid. While you definitely don't want to inject it, it degrades very quickly in the compost pile, leaving lots of nitrogen behind. Even better, take the discarded leaves and boil them. This extracts most of the OA and you can pour that into a spray bottle as a natural pesticide. (Take that aphids!) Then toss the wilted leaves on the pile. You don't have to do that, you can toss them in fresh. But it's a great way to stretch it's usefulness!