A rhubarb plant has begun to flower. - 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.

Now’s the moment to get rhubarb in the ground across much of the country—you’ll thank yourself come strawberry-rhubarb pie season next year.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rhubarb is an ideal edible plant for many home gardeners, and another example of the few vegetable plants which are perennial, ...

When our favorite celebrity TV chef recently posted a strawberry-rhubarb dessert recipe, we thought it would be fun to try baking it. We quickly discovered that not only was it difficult to find fresh ...

You walk out one chilly spring morning, coffee in hand, and there they are. Those knobbly pink rhubarb noses, punching up through the mulch like they own the place. It’s exciting. It’s also exactly ...

And while you’re cooking up those 8 cups of diced rhubarb, here are some rhubarb facts to digest. They come to us courtesy of Jefferies Orchards in Springfield, Ill. One pound of stalks will yield ...

Learn why gardeners grow rhubarb in the dark and how forcing produces sweeter, more tender stalks earlier in spring.

A garden and greenhouse grower’s staple, a Sunday dessert delight and now a favourite fragrance for household products - ...

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 ...

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 ...