My whole yard smells very sweetly of rhubarb today and I'm trying to figure out if one of my neighbours is baking and I need to go for a visit... or if it's just my plants
.It's really lovely actually!
Flower Rhubarb (Q:2)
Does flowering Rhubarb normally smell?
My whole yard smells very sweetly of rhubarb today and I'm trying to figure out if one of my neighbours is baking and I need to go for a visit... or if it's just my plants.
It's really lovely actually!
My whole yard smells very sweetly of rhubarb today and I'm trying to figure out if one of my neighbours is baking and I need to go for a visit... or if it's just my plants
.It's really lovely actually!
Vanessa raising organic vegetables, livestock, wildflowers, and family in zone 5A.
Think sour celery. I actually like to just eat it raw with a little salt. My mom had a huge rhubarb plant when I was little and I use to walk out there every night, pick a stalk, wash it off and sit down with a salt shaker.RickRS wrote:One of those things us Floridians can't understand cause we can't grow the stuff down here. I've alway wonder what it taste like cause people up north talk about it all the time...cubs204 wrote:My mouth just watered thinking of rhubarb pie.....
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Its OK, you're not out much. Every recipe I ever saw for rhubarb anything had strawberries in it. Actually strawberries can stand alone and no use ruining them by adding rhubarb. Just make a strawberry pie and love it!One of those things us Floridians can't understand cause we can't grow the stuff down here. I've alway wonder what it taste like cause people up north talk about it all the time...
Gardening at 5000 feet elevation, zone 4/5 Northern Utah, Frost free from May 25 to September 8 +/-
I've been trying to think of what it tastes like...
Sort of like a less tart but more sour currant, which tastes like a really really tart raspberry?
So it sort of, kinda of, a little bit tastes like a sour raspberry. Kinda.
Personally I think you're really missing out on something
it adds a really nice tartness to the aforementioned strawberry pie, that makes it even better!
I'm sure there are some other uses for it too
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I don't think it was my rhubarb making that smell, as it hasn't since, so I think I missed out on some pie
Sort of like a less tart but more sour currant, which tastes like a really really tart raspberry?
So it sort of, kinda of, a little bit tastes like a sour raspberry. Kinda.
Personally I think you're really missing out on something
it adds a really nice tartness to the aforementioned strawberry pie, that makes it even better!I'm sure there are some other uses for it too
. I don't think it was my rhubarb making that smell, as it hasn't since, so I think I missed out on some pie
Vanessa raising organic vegetables, livestock, wildflowers, and family in zone 5A.
Oh, and now that I have pictures.
This is the rhubarb patch:
(I clipped out most of the flowers and left about 1/3)
[img]https://www.boothboysbarn.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IMG_2179-1024x768.jpg[/img]
[img]https://www.boothboysbarn.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IMG_2180-1024x768.jpg[/img]
This is the rhubarb patch:
(I clipped out most of the flowers and left about 1/3)
[img]https://www.boothboysbarn.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IMG_2179-1024x768.jpg[/img]
[img]https://www.boothboysbarn.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IMG_2180-1024x768.jpg[/img]
Vanessa raising organic vegetables, livestock, wildflowers, and family in zone 5A.
