lookit my rhubarb pie

[stuntcat]

TaDah!

okay it's not MY making but I got it at the farmers' market this morning.
AND THIS^ IS JUST A SIXTH OF IT.

Jealous? :evilgrin:

[GenDem]

1. I made one last weekend

My favorite pie. My patch of rhubarb is just starting to come on.

Was your pie as good as it looks?

[stuntcat]

10. MADE one :o

Good Lord Yes, it's yummy as it looks :loveya:

That's So good you can grow it and make pies! I want to try growing it, maybe next year.
I got some rhubard jam at the thingy this morning too.

[GenDem]

15. Oh, yeah.

I have a nice patch of it right in the back of one of my perennial gardens. I picked enough for a pie and brought it over to my little lake cottage (where we were going for the weekend) and forgot to bring a recipe to follow -- so I winged it. I cubed it, sprinkled it generously with sugar, added two eggs, a little milk, some flower and a pinch of salt. Threw it between a store bought crust, and wa la -- it was tremendous.

It is a perennial, and once planted comes up every year. I've had mine about 10 years.

[AggieGal]

2. Looks Good but,

What is a rhubarb and is it in other foods besides pies?

[Guava Jelly]

3. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[AggieGal]

6. Thanks

Thanks for the welcome, GoPsUx.

[Guava Jelly]

8. Anytime

This is a great place with many wonderful people.
+ 1 now :) stick around and have fun.

[AggieGal]

14. I am hooked

My friend told me about this forum. I heard her stories all the time and finally had to check it out for myself!

[stuntcat]

13. here's rhubarb-

I'm kinda new to the rhubarb experience myself, but I know every time I've been to the farmers' market I've found rhubarb pies there.
I might start trying to grow some next year but I think it's complicated.
I'm gonna eat this whole pie myself before the weekend's over :bounce:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

17. not complicated at all

You just plant it, and it grows. :)

[stuntcat]

18. That's

That's the kinda plant that's safe in my care. It's not too late this year to start trying it is it? Maybe I'll go ahead and start.

It's okra I'm most set on growing this year.
(pretty okra close-up-)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

19. I have no idea how you start it...

Where I grew up, everyone had a plant that had been there for years. :shrug:


Rhubarb
Is Rhubarb a vegetable or is it a fruit? We believe it should be called a vegetable because the stems of Rhubarb are eaten rather than the fruit.

Rhubarb originates from Siberia, and is a very hardy, frost resistant plant - in fact it needs a period of frost in the winter to produce the best stalks.

Because rhubarb is so hardy and will survive almost total neglect, it is often left to it's devices in preference to other more demanding vegetables. This is a pity, because with minimal treatment at the correct time it will flourish and provide you with delicious stalks at a time when little else is cropping in the garden.

One word of warning - do not eat the leaves of rhubarb - they contain oxalic acid which is definitely poisonous to humans.
http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_veg_diary/fruit_veg_mini_project_september_1_rhubarb.asp


I've had to resort to Patio Gardening this year, so rhubarb is out of the question :( I'm trying carrots though, that should be interesting. :)

[stuntcat]

20. "is so hardy and will survive almost total neglect"

It would survive My care then. This is my 4th year gardening, like At All, I'm learning but all at once.
If it's that healthy then I ought to try it, it makes me feel better when things make it out there.
I almost screamed out in the yard by myself when I saw these grapes starting, it was two years ago that I planted them:

I'm such a gardening newb :blush: totally spazzing out about it still. I think I will try the rhubarb, I have a little "vegetable region" for it.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

16. apple-rhubarb cobbler...

it's divine.

[Guava Jelly]

4. I do like me some pie

:)

[Redstone]

5. Now I'm hungry.

Redstone

[SPKrazy]

7. Not A Big Rhubarb Pie Fan

little too tart for my tastes

:hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. 2 Q's; Do you have some vanilla ice cream to go with that?

And will you share? :9

[stuntcat]

11. omg ...

now I know what we need to run buy in the morning.

I'd totally fax y'all all a slice if I could!

[RevolutionaryActs]

12. You can't have pie without ice cream!

It's just not right! :o