"Hank Rogers" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
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>> "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.

He's gardening up in heaven now.