Fresh Rhubarb-aide

[Chuck White]

Turnips and the like are no good unless the frost hits them in the fall and then they get sweeter. The parsnip are no good until spring after they have wintered. Again they get sweeter and tastier. Root crops, even potatoes, bought from the grocery store are rubbish. ;D

Rhubarb is awesome in the spring. Don't pick the stuff if it has gone to seed.

I like bells and jalapeno peppers and use them unsparingly. ;D

I was told to pick the seed stem off if the plant goes to seed early!
What is the right thing to do?

[SwampDonkey]

I don't use it if it seeds. Just like I don't pick and eat lettuce when it seeds. Mine has not seeded for 2 years. Use it up before seeding or lose it. Don't over harvest it though. 

[21incher]

I just pull the seed stalks when they first appear and keep using it. Try the Rhubarb aide with a little vodka 

[thecfarm]

I do the same. I mean I pull the seed stalks.  ;D  Mine went to seed 2 weeks ago.  I have 2 diffeant kinds. 

[SwampDonkey]

My old patch that hasn't been disturbed in over 100 years behind the spruce row doesn't seed until later than this, so probably same for the two clumps I moved to the garden.  The new ones I bought this spring are a different variety, but the strawberry red kind like the old ones. They are taking off. You wouldn't think a dried out mass in a plastic bag would have any life. :D A course when the rhubarb is growing in good composted manure and garden loam it just wants to grow. Then when it gets too dry from no rain it goes dormant and dies down and no seed stalks. No shortage of rain this spring here.

I see Bernstein's patch has seeded some time ago before he had the big frost kill out there in ND. It killed everything except the rhubarb. He plants too early to begin with, but what else he got to do? Work on motorbike motors and an old VW bus I guess. :D

Next weekend going to make some more juice, going to be cooler weather.

I guess there is two different camps on using it when gone to seed.

[SwampDonkey]

Made another 4 bottles of rhubarb juice this morning.

Rhubarb has never gone to seed yet this year up here.

[thecfarm]

My rhubarb went to seed about 2 weeks ago. That was the first of June.