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 a cool-weather crop that will bolt, producing flowers rather than thick, juicy stems, in hot conditions. With ...

Let’s set the record straight: Rhubarb is a vegetable, though it’s often put to the same culinary uses as fruit. Think jellies, sauces and pies. The confusion on rhubarb’s standing in the food world ...

Rhubarb thrives in cooler conditions and will bolt, sending up flowers instead of producing those thick, succulent stems, ...

"I always picked pie plant for my mother on a farm in Wheatland (N.D.)," Francis Smylie, 93, of Fargo, writes. "Could this be a Danish term? She was 100 percent Dane." May be, Francis. But here's ...

Called the "pie plant," rhubarb is the perfect sour-tart ingredient in the season's first fresh cobbler, crumble, crisp or pie. If you don't have a rhubarb plant, or a source among your friends and ...

— Basic rhubarb crisp: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 1 1/2- to 2-quart baking dish or make individual crisps using ramekins. In a bowl, combine 6 cups of 1/2-inch pieces of rhubarb, 1 cup ...