Rhubarb is erupting across the northern United States right now — offering a perfect opportunity to celebrate one of the year's first and most intriguing harvests. "Route 340 here in Lancaster County ...

The state legislature should make rhubarb mandatory for every home yard - especially the type with ruby red stalks. Add asparagus plants and strawberries, and you've got an old-fashioned yard that is ...

There is a song going viral right now on social media about a woman named Barbara who is famous for her rhubarb pie. The entire song is a German tongue twister and catchy. Rhubarb is also trending due ...

Experts suggest waiting at least a year to let the plant's roots establish themselves before harvesting the stalks; in the fall, trim the plant back to the ground to let it maximize its growth the ...

Rhubarb is an ideal edible plant for many home gardeners, and another example of the few vegetable plants which are perennial, meaning that they regrow year after year after initial planting. While ...

Q: The soil in the location to which we recently moved is heavy clay. I brought some rhubarb along to plant, but the photo is what my rhubarb looks like since planting it here in May. I have watered ...

Years ago, when my now-grown daughter Justine was a toddler, we visited a U-pick farm where she plucked plump, ripe strawberries from a field of sprawling plants. Some made it into the basket on that ...

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 ...

ALEDO, Ill. — It's the busiest time of the year in the Rhubarb Capital of Illinois where rhubarb is all the rage. Aledo was dubbed the Rhubarb Capital of Illinois in 2007, in honor of its annual ...

Q: Is it possible to grow rhubarb in Southern California? A: Most of the rhubarb that is grown commercially in the United States comes from Washington, Oregon, and Michigan – states with considerably ...

For me, rhubarb will forever be linked with baseball. Growing up in a small town in northwest Iowa, we had a backyard big enough to plot out a baseball field. It wasn’t regulation or anything. The ...