Anyone Grown Rhubarb?

[GGM]

Originally Posted by eduardomachado

they look great!!! first time I see that plant, that's a vegetable fruit or leaves like lettuce?

Yeah the stuff isn't very popular or even known in warm climate countries. Its a vegatable that is eaten as a fruit, it is very sour and taste bad without adding sugar, but stewed and eaten with cream it taste like pure awesomeness You eat the stalks, the leaves are somewhat poisonous (oxalic acid ).

[GpsFrontier]

Its a vegatable that is eaten as a fruit, it is very sour and taste bad without adding sugar

Ya, I don't use it much myself (if at all), even though you can get it in the stores here year round. I also don't know any recipes for it (though they wouldn't be hard to find), I know it best for Rhubarb pie. When I see it in the stores it looks like red celery stalks, though I have never had any experience in preparing it (much less growing it). But it's certainly interesting to see how it grows, and what the plant looks like. I guess it's one of these under appreciated, misunderstood foods.