Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "U.S. Janet B." > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> 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.

A smart man, and apparently a hell of a good gardener. Yoose should have
kept him instead of the bum yoose have now.