On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 07:16:17 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"Bruce" wrote in message ...
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>On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 20:37:59 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
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>>On 2/9/2019 7:21 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> I'm looking forward to a new crop in 2020. We enjoy rhubarb sauce,
>>>> pie and kuchen.
>>>>
>>>> Janet US
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>>> I have never tasted rhubarb.
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>>I have. Once. I have no idea why anyone would grow it but it seems
>>popular in some regions.
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>It's too sour to eat on its own, so you have to add a lot of sugar to
>make it edible. Sounds pretty useless to me. I think it's popular in
>merry old England.
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>When we were children, we used to get a stick of rhubarb and a bag of sugar
>to dip into
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>No, I haven't done that since