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Sorry if this has already featured (but I didn't feel like checking over 3000 threads on a dial-up system, not broadband!)
I have a rhubarb plant that I put in three years ago but can't remember the variety. I left it for the first year and last year harvested only a small amount at the end of the season - lovely red stalks. This year though, it has gone 'rampant' and the stalks are still green. They started out promising red at the base when they first appeared but then have gone green. I also took off the spring flowers when they first appeared. Am I just being impatient, or have I damaged the plant by taking off the flowers, and / or can I eat the stalks when they are still green?
Thanks!
I have a rhubarb plant that I put in three years ago but can't remember the variety. I left it for the first year and last year harvested only a small amount at the end of the season - lovely red stalks. This year though, it has gone 'rampant' and the stalks are still green. They started out promising red at the base when they first appeared but then have gone green. I also took off the spring flowers when they first appeared. Am I just being impatient, or have I damaged the plant by taking off the flowers, and / or can I eat the stalks when they are still green?
Thanks!
....I meant is it Ok to eat the rhubarb stalks if the leaves have pink in them rather than being all green.....does that make sense?? Not planing to eat the leaves.
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