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Default I ordered a new rhubarb


"Roy" > wrote in message
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> On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 7:04:07 PM UTC-7, Sheldon wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 16:50:09 -0800, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
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>> >
>> >"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.

>>
>> Rhubarb leaves are indeed toxic. There are many plants that produce
>> ordinary produce that her highly toxic... tomato plants are quite
>> toxic... tomatoes are in the nightshade family, the leaves, stems. and
>> roots are very toxic, same for potatoes.

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