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Default I ordered a new rhubarb

On Sat, 09 Feb 2019 19:21:22 -0500, Boron Elgar
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>On Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:59:18 -0700, U.S. Janet B. >
>wrote:
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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

>
>I have never tasted rhubarb.


You gotta be kidding, with all the cooking and gardening you do...
next time you go to a real bakery buy a strawberry rhubarb pie...
orgasmic.