An early BBC QI programme, which I rewatched the other day, asked the panellists whether they knew of the Rhubarb Triangle, which prompted me to write this article. It is, of course, the perfect ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley gardeners and farmers! Mother’s Day marked the beginning of warm season gardening. We are now setting out tomato, pepper and many other vegetable transplants. Remember, squash, ...
Rhubarb becomes the star plant in my vegetable garden when I can add it to summer fruit pies. There is a progression, beginning with strawberry rhubarb pie, followed by raspberry rhubarb, culminating ...
Forgive my rhubarb obsession, but I can’t think of anything in my garden that returns so much pleasure for so little effort. As long as I feed my rhubarb – manure tea is its drink of choice – it feeds ...
The first fruit I pick from my garden isn't even a fruit. It's rhubarb -- one of the most trouble-free pie and sauce crops you can grow in our area. Bugs seldom bother it, disease rarely strikes it, ...
As a gardener, I delight in signs of life beginning to emerge in my spring garden. I especially relish the appearance of rosy ...
So anxious are my hills of rhubarb to get started every spring that their petioles practically jump up through the soil and mulch that covers them. One of the reasons for their enthusiasm is that they ...