PLEASING PERENNIAL: Kaley Laird, left, pastry chef at The Rhu, and chef John Fleer, right, owner of The Rhu and Rhubarb restaurant, use the eponymous plant’s tangy stalks to make pastries, sauces, ...

Rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum) is not only a classic in the kitchen but also an easy-to-care-for and long-lasting garden plant.

For many people, it's hard to imagine rhubarb without a generous amount of sugar to take the edge off its sharp taste. As early as the 19th century, English cookbooks have been baking it into desserts ...

During the heyday of the Silk Road, dried rhubarb root was at times more expensive than cinnamon or opium, and Marco Polo went searching in northwest China for specimens that could thrive in Europe. A ...

Everybody who's ever listened to "A Prairie Home Companion" and a lot of Americans who haven't are familiar with rhubarb. Rhubarb was the big-leafed plant that faithfully came up each spring alongside ...

Plant rhubarb roots now, but the pie will have to wait. Rhubarb roots are available and ready to plant at most local nurseries. Choose a sunny location with good drainage. If your soil drains poorly, ...

It was early spring. I had recently moved to Point Reyes Station and was in the midst of preparing the vegetable garden. While removing dead and unwanted vegetation, I encountered a large clump of ...

The cool weather this spring has been good for rhubarb plants. After emerging in early May, the thick, tangy stalks are ready for harvesting to be turned into pie, sauce, jam and rhubarb bread. Early ...

Rhubarb sits on display at the Our Garden booth at the Ferguson Farmers Market. Q • I’m reading over my latest catalogs and thinking about ordering some rhubarb. Is it true they just send you roots?

Fresh rhubarb pie is one of the first treats out of the garden in the spring. When mixed with early spring strawberries, nothing can be better. Rhubarb is possibly mentioned in 1,800-year-old Chinese ...

Meet Mike on Saturday and Sunday, April 16 and 17, at The Calvert (County) Home Show in Prince Frederick, Maryland. Details here. It’s been said that “April is the cruelest month,” and area gardeners ...

Rhubarb is known to grow its best stalks in June, but gardeners need to be very careful, as the rising temperatures can cause ...