AOL: 13 Ways to Use Every Part of Your Rhubarb Plant This April (Even the Leaves) Every April, millions of home gardeners harvest fistfuls of bright rhubarb stalks, lop off the enormous leaves, and toss them straight into the trash or compost without a second thought. That is a ... 13 Ways to Use Every Part of Your Rhubarb Plant This April (Even the Leaves) A rhubarb plant has begun to flower.

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- Tomas Vynikal/Getty Images Picking your own rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum) for jams, jellies, and pies is one of the best parts of a perennial spring garden. The Irish News on MSN: Casual gardener: Rhubarb asks for so little, yet gives back so much in return Casual gardener: Rhubarb asks for so little, yet gives back so much in return Columbia Daily Tribune: How to grow rhubarb in your garden and where it's likely to thrive 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 ...

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