To the untrained eye, rhubarb and burdock look similar. Despite burdock sometimes being called “wild rhubarb,” the plants greatly differ in taste, texture, and usage. Only the stalks of rhubarb are ...

I was never a rhubarb fan growing up. The only way I would suffer through the strong sour taste was when my very Minnesotan grandmother would make strawberry rhubarb refrigerator jam using strawberry ...

VAIL, Colorado It grows wild all over Colorado. The perennial rhubarb plant loves cool weather like Vail’s and needs a cool spring to release from its dormant winter sleep. Beautiful red stalks and ...

Rhubarb is a popular spring perennial to grow. Technically a vegetable, rhubarb is legally a fruit, and the stalks are treated as a fruit in the kitchen. As a bonus, rhubarb is a beautiful plant with ...

Rhubarb is a low-maintenance and reliable perennial plant ideal for any productive garden, as you can harvest stems for crumbles, pies, jams, cakes, and more, for many years. There are different ways ...

The cool weather this spring has been good for rhubarb plants. After emerging in early May, the thick, tangy stalks are ready for harvesting to be turned into pie, sauce, jam and rhubarb bread. Early ...

Does your yard or garden look like a scene from “Invasion of the Rhubarb”? (No, that’s not a real movie, but it might make a good one.) Not sure what to do with all of it? Elissa Brown from Wild ...

Rhubarb has been a staple in my life as a Fairbanksan. I grew up making rhubarb pie and rhubarb crisp, which are perfectly delicious ways to use rhubarb. Incidentally, one nickname for rhubarb is “pie ...