"U.S. Janet B." > wrote in message
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> After decades of service, my old rhubarb died. It used to produce
> really broad stalks and lots of them
> I replaced it a couple of years ago but all the new plant produced
> were blossom stalks and a few skinny stalks.
>
> I ordered a new rhubarb yesterday. It promises to produce few or no
> blossom stalks. It looks like it will produce nice broad stalks.
> https://www.growerssolution.com/rhub...e-rhubarb.html
> Until I started looking around online for rhubarb I didn't realize
> that some rhubarb has a nasty habit of producing a lot of blossom
> stalks. The blossom stalks steal all the plant energy and the stalks
> themselves are throw aways.
>
> I'm looking forward to a new crop in 2020. We enjoy rhubarb sauce,
> pie and kuchen.
>
> Janet US

When we first moved into the house we bought in WA (as a child), there
appeared to be two beautiful rhubarb plants behind the flowering quince. A
neighbor confirmed that they were in fact rhubarb but my parents wouldn't
let me eat either the quince or the rhubarb, thinking them to be poison.
Even though I promised to cook them both, they still told me to keep away.
My dad ripped out the rhubarb and eventually. the quince.