Comments on: Ornamental Rhubarb

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:30:37 +0000

My ruhbarb has been transplanted about 7 to 8 years ago & it has produced ok at times. But now it never seems to fill out very good & I’ve never seen tall stalks like what your showing. This year I added manure & peatmoss to it help. It did good at first but then I trimmed a walnut tree next to it, to get more light to the plant & all the leafs wilted. New stalks started again, but still nothing real big. Any suggestions

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Some Plants Just Aren’t Content to Wait for Spring — Veggie Gardening Tips — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:38:19 +0000

[...] it’s not very recognizable at this stage, the rhubarb is putting forth the odd looking bumps and foreign growths that always precede the huge stalks and [...]

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Making the Best of Perennial Plants in the Veggie Garden — Veggie Gardening Tips — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:02:29 +0000

[...] a dozen blackberry plants, close to forty asparagus roots, and a patch of strawberry plants and rhubarb all coexisting in a bed that I’ll need to do little more than to keep weeded and apply a little [...]

By: Elsie

Elsie — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:03:04 +0000

Hello Kenny,
The photo you asked me to check does not look the same. I just went to have a better look at the plant, now about 4′high, which is just getting taller by sprouting more leaves. What I thought was going to open and flower is just more leaves. Also although the stems at the bottom are red at the source, the whole stalk has a fibre’y surface, not smooth like rhubarb – I think I’m looking at what articles suggest might be a ‘cockleburr’ – best to pull it out will go to purchase a plant, then I will have the right thing for sure. Thank you for your assistance. Much appreciated.

By: Kenny Point

Kenny Point — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:45:24 +0000

Hi Elsie, does the growth that you mentioned look like the last photo in this article about Vegetable Seed Stalks? Rhubarb is pretty distinctive looking, but always get a positive ID before eating any plant that you are unsure of.

By: Elsie

Elsie — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:44:24 +0000

I would really like to know if what I think is rhubarb is actually a weed, as my friends think. The plant looks like your website picture but at the top there is a growth, flower? /seeds?? I have pulled it out last year as a ‘weed’, but this year it’s back & I think it is rhubarb — but not sure – Would love to harvest it if it is the real thing!
Thank you for clarification

By: Robinson

Robinson — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:38:19 +0000

Marilyn, I wonder if your impostor rhubarb might actually be cockleburrs. They are really hard to get rid of. I recommend digging them out. At the very least don’t let them go to seed.

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Sun, 27 May 2007 22:15:11 +0000

In my rhubarb patch I have 3 very tall ugly looking rhubarb, that does not look like any of the other rhubarb. What is this tall thing that grows with the rhubarb. Thanks