rhubarb

To rhubarb or not to rhubarb?

June 15, 2023 | By Emily Swihart, University of Illinois Extension

MILAN, Ill. — I hope I am not the only one with a plant they have always been aware of yet never really paid attention to. For me, that is rhubarb. I recall my grandmother having a stand of rhubarb, and I am sure she made rhubarb pie, but that is where my memory stops.…

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Plant rhubarb, the pie plant, in March

March 18, 2023 | By Linda Geist, University of Missouri Extension

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Fans of the public radio show “A Prairie Home Companion” know that rhubarb cures life’s ailments. When life cannot get any worse, “one little thing can revive a guy, and that is a piece of rhubarb pie,” according to the show’s creator, Garrison Keillor. Whether that is truth or fiction, rhubarb is…

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