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How to Harvest Your Rhubarb
Rhubarb is a perennial vegetable with fibrous stalks that have a tart, tangy flavor and are often reddish, though they can be green. Also known as the pie plant, for its common use as a pie filling, the plant prefers cool weather and rich s... Read More »
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When can rhubarb be harvested?
The best time when to harvest rhubarb is when the stalks of the leaves reach at least 10” long. This will ensure that the plant has established itself well enough for the year to be able to tolerate being harvested. Significantly slow or st... Read More »
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How large should a rhubarb plant be before harvest begins?
To allow the new rhubarb to become established, it's best to wait until the second or third year to harvest a rhubarb plant. Read More »
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Because they need all of the foilage growth the first year to establish a good root system. University of Illinois Extension**Harvesting Open link and scroll down to harvesting http://urbanext.illinois.edu/veggies/rhu… How To Harvest Rhubar...
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Yes you can. The leaves are high in Oxalic Acid and are therefore very toxic to humans but, in the compost pile, the 8 carbon long acid is either broken down into smaller molecules or simply diluted. So, it is not toxic in the soil.
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Are you sure it's rhubarb? The reason I ask is because it grows in stalks and not bushes. Photos of rhubarb http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=… Rhubarb recipies http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=… More recipies. http://www.googl...
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How to tell when rhubarb is ripe is as easy as walking out to the plant. To be honest, rhubarb is “ripe” all spring and summer. But for the health of the plant there are certain times that you should make your rhubarb harvest. The best time...
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With a sharp knife, remove the leaf and base of each stalk. Oh, I do love rhubarb. Ugly, tart, peculiar rhubarb. For most people that don’t like it, it’s a texture thing. My answer: cut it into smaller pieces, shorter piece to break up the ...
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Buckytom, Thanks for the correction. I went back and re-read the post. If it's just a transplant then the first year harvest should be OK but I still wouldn't over harvest so as to allow the plants to become firmly established in the new lo...
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Rhubarb is a plant grown by braver gardeners who know the wonderful flavor of this unusual and often difficult to find plant. But, a new rhubarb grower may have questions like “how to tell when rhubarb is ripe?” and “when to harvest rhubarb...
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