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Post by bluelacedredhead on May 9, 2019 8:33:21 GMT -5
What is the stuff good for? NOTHING! It is good for nothing. It is used to ruin strawberries in pies >,< One stalk is enough for 75 families of 15 each. bleh! I too have childhood memories spike, You are Too Funny!!!!
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Post by bluelacedredhead on May 9, 2019 8:38:48 GMT -5
My favourties include a Crumble Crust Rhubarb pie (no Strawberries allowed); Rhubarb Jam; Pineapple Rhubarb Jam and Whole Wheat Rhubarb Cake with just a sprinkling of icing sugar on top. OH, and the Chocolate Rhubarb Brownies that were posted on a forum I used to belong to. They are the most addictive brownies ever!
My last two houses have been less than hospitable to growing rhubarb? And on the farm, the Turkeys ate all the leaves. Guess they don't have issue with Oxalic Acid?? I brought a plant with us and in 6 years it never grew enough to make anything? Two years ago I bought a plant from a private gardener and it's doing wonderfully. Hope the next owner's like rhubarb!
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Post by tallpines on May 15, 2019 14:01:56 GMT -5
Made 8 cups of rhubarb jam today!
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Post by paquebot on May 15, 2019 16:07:43 GMT -5
I somehow lost one big plant the past couple years and that bothered me. Needed to decide if I wanted to replace it. At the Jung's Garden center, there is a large dumpster just for composting plants. Manager told me that she picked some rhubarb from a plant that someone tossed in. Amazing how fate works. It has now found a home where it will be appreciated, my garden.
Martin
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Post by spike on May 15, 2019 18:50:09 GMT -5
Made 8 cups of rhubarb jam today! On purpose? What do you do with it? Sorry, do not mean to offend but I would have to place those by Christmas fruitcakes.
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Post by paquebot on May 15, 2019 19:26:38 GMT -5
Just came to me as to what is missing in the US, rhubarb candy. Last time I had it was on flight from Warsaw to Gdynia. No peanuts on LOT, hard candies and some were rhubarb-flavor.
Martin
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Post by tallpines on May 15, 2019 22:01:20 GMT -5
spike , Three containers ..... one will go into the freezer for mid winter pleasure. one will be used now .... on toast, or ice cream, or just straight! Think of it as a jello salad with fruit .... although technically rhubarb is a vegetable. the biggest container will be taken to my oldest grandchild .... just graduated from college last week and has started a new job. She loves ❣️ the rhubarb jam! Still to come will be rhubarb pies, cake, muffins and bars! By the way ..... EVERYONE ❤️LOVES❤️ my fruitcake! Its made with lots of LOVE and lots of Christian Brothers Brandy! Although my son recently gifted me with a nice bottle of Rum. Next Christmas fruitcake will be made with rum!
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Post by tallpines on May 15, 2019 22:12:44 GMT -5
paquebot, Couldn’t you have created more plants by dividing your remaining plants? i find it hard to believe the plant that died would be the only one you had. One of my mother’s neighbors would “buy” new rhubarb plants. Could never figure out why he needed to do that as our plants have been divided over and over again providing endless people with plants for 50 years now. And I suspect the plants we were gifted from a neighbor in 1970 had probably been divided many times for many years prior to that.
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Post by paquebot on May 16, 2019 10:20:44 GMT -5
The plant that died was one of two which were the old pie plant type with mostly green stalks 2' or more long. They were from a single plant that was here when I bought this home in 1963. I still have one of them. Also have a short all-red variety. The latest one is somewhere in between. Dividing time is in the fall but we really don't need more than we presently have. A neighbor once had 4 different varieties and it's where I rescued the red one. New owners weren't interested in them and allowed bshopweed to move in. When that happened, rhubarb died. I got the last survivor.
Edit: Upon farther observations, I didn't lose that old plant, just misplaced it. Forgot that the location of the garden rows shifted a foot or so. The top of the plant got chewed off with the Mantis. It;s still there, just trying to recover from a reckless gardener.
Martin
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 17, 2019 8:57:14 GMT -5
Glad you found your plant.
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Post by ladymarmalade on May 17, 2019 10:08:58 GMT -5
So close.
Every day I'm scrutinizing my rhubarb plants, wondering if it's grown enough for me to snag a few stalks off of each plant and make something. We're so close, but not quite there yet.
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Post by tallpines on May 17, 2019 14:03:22 GMT -5
I live in Clark County (Hwy 29) and have collected rhubarb. We need a good rain before I’ll harvest any more.
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Post by brownrexx on May 17, 2019 14:40:55 GMT -5
I just picked some last night and don't know what I will make yet but I'm thinking rhubarb bread.
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Post by ladymarmalade on May 17, 2019 17:59:20 GMT -5
I live in Clark County (Hwy 29) and have collected rhubarb. We need a good rain before I’ll harvest any more. Well hidey-ho there good neighbor! We pass through the northern part of your woods when we travel to the Twin Cities to visit family. And then we also pass through the southern part of the county (Neillsville) when we travel out to the Eau Claire area for our annual camping vacation in Amish country. My rhubarb was a transplant last year, so I don't want to tax it by taking too much off the plant this year.
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Post by bestofour on May 17, 2019 21:34:08 GMT -5
I've never tasted rhubarb.
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