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Split some in my patch and replanted. Then covered with well-composted manure and watered them.
Looking forward to pie season.
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Mine was up a week or so back, been away staying with friends recovering from eye surgery, hope to have some ready when I get back.
Strawberries not quite ready yet though.
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Mine is not up.  Just have <1" stubs protruding. Ground at spade-depth was pretty cold yet.
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My garden is at about 650' elevation so it thawed out a while ago here in WA.
Wife's place had snow the other day and temps hover around freezing at night this time of year, so it'll be a learning curve for me when I retire. I think the latest day of recorded snowfall there is in June.
Enjoy your rhubarb when it get "ripe"!
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Ours was up and had leaves. Not real big so far and then we got 6" or so of snow and a few days of freeze and thaw over a week. Hope it is still okay but haven't looked in a week.
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I try not to say never, so, if you ever see me eating rhubarb, times are tough. And I eat most anything.
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The stuff sure is hard to kill. This plant cme from friends that hate rhubarb, and had this growing at their house when they moved there. Dug it up and tossed it in the woods. I retrieved it a week or so later and it has done well, producing more rhubarb than I can really use. It's in about the perfect location - south side of the house w/ full sun, plenty of water, and I have a connection for natural, organic fertilizer.  Did just get a split of some 'magic' rhubarb, so interested in seeing how that does.
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Rhubarb? My wife makes a rhubarb custard pie that is quite good.
Our patch is ready to cut some from, if the frost did not 'get it".
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Good stuff there. My grandma used to make Rhubarb pies, hard to beat.
Tried Rhubarb Strawberry pie one, didn't care for it, why ruin strawberries and rhubarb by mixing them.
Gooseberry pie pretty tasty too!!
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You can make a pretty decent rhubarb wine too. Not a favourite of mine but my better half enjoys it. That helps me get the occasional rhubarb custard pie, a nice bonus!
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pat, I don't drink (or make my own wine anymore either ) but if it would get me a rhubarb custard pie I might have to reconsider! Geno PS, I've been away for a few days so I better go check my rhubarb. I might make some sauce for ice cream and such if it's ready.
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Never even heard of rhubarb custard pie, so I Googled it.
Now I'm looking forward to making one!
Thanks.
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Bender, and all, the custard "cuts" some of the sharp tang from the rhubarb, a nicer firmer filling, I have made a cobbler with the filling, it's just easier than making a crust.
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Never even heard of rhubarb custard pie, so I Googled it.
Now I'm looking forward to making one!
Thanks. That does sound good. But, I'm more of a fan of custard than rhubarb.... 
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I grew up eating rhubarb. We had a patch about 20' long. Stuff would grow 2 1/2' high in nothing flat.
That was in SE MI.
Here? I just discovered the small patch I tried to transplant to this house and promptly died, didn't.
It appears three of the 6 cuttings survived.
So, 'bender, what's this magic rhubarb of which you speak?
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I wouldnt know what a rhubarb was if it jumped up and bit me on the azz.
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Now Woody, that would be a singular patch of rhubarb, and I'll bet you would know it the next time.
Talk about, "Man bites dog"!
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I think them folks waaaay up north around Waco might eat it. But we never grew any down this far south.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Bob/Woody, If we ever get together, rhubarb, custard pie will be on the menu.
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Bob/Woody, If we ever get together, rhubarb, custard pie will be on the menu. Ok!!
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Have their round haunches gored."
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