Rhubarb is a perennial vegetable that is primarily used as a fruit in cooking. It grows best in full sun and fertile, well-drained soil. Rhubarb should not be harvested the first year it is planted to ...

Homegrown rhubarb should produce stalks in shades of pink, red and green by summer, but there's an important job gardeners ...

Rhubarb is a cool-weather crop that will bolt, producing flowers rather than thick, juicy stems, in hot conditions. Here's ...

Let’s set the record straight: Rhubarb is a vegetable, though it’s often put to the same culinary uses as fruit. Think jellies, sauces and pies. The confusion on rhubarb’s standing in the food world ...

"I always picked pie plant for my mother on a farm in Wheatland (N.D.)," Francis Smylie, 93, of Fargo, writes. "Could this be a Danish term? She was 100 percent Dane." May be, Francis. But here's ...

One of the first things to sprout in the garden each spring is rhubarb. Nothing is more reliable than this plant. The people who live in southern states probably haven’t even heard of rhubarb because ...

A reader has a question about growing rhubarb. Plus, Grumpy’s tip of the week. "Does rhubarb grow in North Carolina?" - Judy Grumpy Gardener: Rhubarb to a Northerner is like okra to a Southerner, ...

Called the "pie plant," rhubarb is the perfect sour-tart ingredient in the season's first fresh cobbler, crumble, crisp or pie. If you don't have a rhubarb plant, or a source among your friends and ...

You think it’s just a simple little stalk you’re pulling out of the ground? Think again. Rhubarb, which is right in the middle of its peak season, has a surprisingly interesting history. And because ...

— Basic rhubarb crisp: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 1 1/2- to 2-quart baking dish or make individual crisps using ramekins. In a bowl, combine 6 cups of 1/2-inch pieces of rhubarb, 1 cup ...