We have a crown from my husbands grandma so it is technically over 100 years old. Very cool and love that your son loves the garden. We as silly as it sounds grow rhubarb as a flower a tribute to nana. Happy gardening 👩🌾 Ali 🌧️ SW Canada 🇨🇦
FYI, there are varieties of rhubarb that remain green stemmed, check your variety. I grow one that gets a bit of pink streaking, but is almost all green. Still tastes great, but really concerned me when I first got it, as I had never seen one that was not red. Had to do some research on it (15 -20 yrs ago). They live a long time too 😊.
@@thepotagerbasket that is a myth, due to people picking red stemmed varieties before they were "ripe", the green varieties are the same sweetness, if you want to call some thing as tart as rhubarb sweet🤔 the very northern cold hardly ones seem to be more green. Not sure why, mine was called Russian something and others breed specifically for cold seem to be more green. Maybe something to do with sun exposure? But Im in zone 5 so it gets plenty of sunlight here.
@@sandrawright6938 interesting! It makes me very curious what type of variety I have cause ours comes up so red immediately and has such little green. But now that you say that I do remember growing up with more of a green rhubarb plant than the one I have
“It’s good!” I need to go check mine! Always a good reminder about it becoming toxic when it freezes! “Hi baby!”🥰
We have a crown from my husbands grandma so it is technically over 100 years old. Very cool and love that your son loves the garden. We as silly as it sounds grow rhubarb as a flower a tribute to nana. Happy gardening 👩🌾 Ali 🌧️ SW Canada 🇨🇦
I love that! I have a propagation of a begonia that was my great grandmas and everyone in the family has a piece. Such a fun way to keep them around
@@thepotagerbasket I also have trees plants and objects in the garden from passed loved ones
FYI, there are varieties of rhubarb that remain green stemmed, check your variety. I grow one that gets a bit of pink streaking, but is almost all green. Still tastes great, but really concerned me when I first got it, as I had never seen one that was not red. Had to do some research on it (15 -20 yrs ago). They live a long time too 😊.
Yes!! I believe the more red they have the sweeter they are supposed to be, or at least I was told that at some point.
@@thepotagerbasket that is a myth, due to people picking red stemmed varieties before they were "ripe", the green varieties are the same sweetness, if you want to call some thing as tart as rhubarb sweet🤔 the very northern cold hardly ones seem to be more green. Not sure why, mine was called Russian something and others breed specifically for cold seem to be more green. Maybe something to do with sun exposure? But Im in zone 5 so it gets plenty of sunlight here.
@@sandrawright6938 interesting! It makes me very curious what type of variety I have cause ours comes up so red immediately and has such little green. But now that you say that I do remember growing up with more of a green rhubarb plant than the one I have