That's terrible labeling. You need to come over to my booth.But! Now I'm not so sure I want them from her....
The thing is, when you grow from seed, you get spoiled. You make detailed study of the variety -- size, color, days to maturity, disease resistance, etc. When I walked around the market, I realized that all veg plants were simply labeled "tomato", "broccoli", "cabbage". Well OK they had "roma tomato" and "red cabbage". Likewise, the woman only knows she's getting "rhubarb".
One of mine is doing the same thing to mecynthia_h wrote:My largest rhubarb plant has decided to torment me this year.
It has grown the most beautiful, large, velvety and deeply colored...leaves. Stems? I should want to harvest stems???
No dice. This plant is only interested in producing leaves. Yes, the leaves *do* emerge from stems, but the stems are only 3" or 4" long (I parted the leaves just to check). Not much food there, except for the compost pile, as the leaves expire.
Jamie Oliver has a wonderful recipe that deals with rhubarb and roast pork. If you have had pork with sauteed apples, try rhubarb instead. If I can find the recipe I will give it to you.applestar wrote:Aside from rhubarb and strawberry pie, what do you use rhubarb for?
Cynthia, did you harvest the little 3-4" stems anyway? Mine was growing 6-8" stems, tolerable, but not nice long ones like in the grocery. But I harvested a bunch of them anyway, about two weeks ago. Since then it's growing like mad and the new stalks are getting much longer than the ones I took before. I'm going to harvest more soon. I don't know if it was just too early in the season before, or if harvesting stimulated it to grow more and longer....cynthia_h wrote:My largest rhubarb plant has decided to torment me this year.
It has grown the most beautiful, large, velvety and deeply colored...leaves. Stems? I should want to harvest stems???
No dice. This plant is only interested in producing leaves.
I have never grown rhubarb from seed, but last year I saved some seed from my one plant. I want to see if I can grow it from seed. Have you done this and how did it turn out?The thing is, when you grow from seed, you get spoiled.