Rhubarb For Home Gardens
What's another name for a
"pie plant”? Ready for picking
just ahead of strawberries,
rhubarb has gained a place with
home bakers for use in tart and
juice rhubarb pie.
Popular for cooks on the farm
as well as gourmet kitchens, one
cup of rhubarb contains relative
ly few calories: 20.
Popular for its bittersweet
taste by English farmers in the
19th century stalks have been
improved over the years in color,
tenderness, juiciness, and flavor.
Harvesting rhubarb is easy.
Harvest the leaf stalks for a
short period" during its second
year and full harvest period (8-
10 weeks) during the third grow
ing season and there after. Pull
the stalk upward and to the side
rather than cutting with a knife.
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Look for rhubarb fresh (in sea
son), canned or frozen. Clean
the reddish stalks by washing
under cold water.
Rhubarb plants are fairly
pest resistant and tolerant of
high soil acidity. Watch for
flower stalk to develop each sea
son. Remove the flower stalk by
cutting as soon as it appears.
Rhubarb is grown by planting
pieces or buds of rhubarb crowns
or cuttings. Rhubarb has a large
storage root. If you have a
friend who has had a rhubarb
patch for several years you may
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the rhubarb crown needs divid
ing.
Commercially, crowns are
divided after new plants have
grown for about four years. If
numerous small stalks indicate
that the crowns are becoming
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crowded, its time to divide.
Saving your own seed is not rec
ommended. Rhubarb seedlings
are not "true to type" of parent
plants.
As spring progresses watch
for new buds to emerge, and
divide them before they grow
beyond 6 to 8 inches. At this
stage cut down through the
crown between the buds, so that
a large piece of the storage root
will be attached to each bud.
Crown pieces may be stored in a
cool, dark basement for a week
or two before planting.
Plant crown pieces in early
spring in soil enriched with
humus or compost and a gener
ous heap of well-rotted cow
manure (or dehydrated type for
a small patch). Pieces are usu
ally transplanted three feet
apart in rows four to five feet
apart. Cover pieces with two to
three inches of soil. Since
rhubarb grows for more than
one season, plant at the edge of
the garden or along a fence. Do
not harvest at all the first sea
son. Remove any seed stalks
that form.
Place plants in a garden spot
that will not be disturbed. The
average family only needs one or
two plants. By forcing, you can
grow rhubarb indoors during the
winter. In late fall, dig up a few
plants and place them in a pro
tected place where they will
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freeze, but not dry out. Roots
left outdoors to freeze should be
covered lightly with soil. After
freezing for several weeks, place
the roots in a container and
cover the crowns with 2-3 inches
of soil or sand. The plants
ANSWER —A reader would like a recipe for raisin sauce to
pour over ham. Thanks to an anonymous reader for sending
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Cook raisins for 5 minutes in the 2 cups water. In another
saucepan, combine brown sugar and cornstarch. Add raisin
mixture to dry ingredients. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, stir con
stantly until mixture thickens.
In a saucepan, mix sugar and cornstarch smoothly with
cranberry juice. Add orange juice and raisins. Bring to a boil,
stirring constantly until mixture thickens.
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should be grown in darkness or
semidarkness for best color and
quality. The ideal temperature
range is 50°-65° F.
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