Rhubarb plants seattle

Dig a wide, shallow hole in the new location, work in plenty of organic compost and plant the rhody no deeper than it was growing previously. Ciscoe Morris: ciscoe ciscoe. Share story. By Ciscoe Morris. Plant rhubarb roots now, but the pie will have to wait. This Seattle steakhouse wants to be part of the solution. Ciscoe Morris : ciscoe ciscoe. That solitary plant came to me via a friend, unsurprising news to anyone who has had a Seattle-area garden. The only thing you have to do to rhubarb once you have a plant is dig it up every five years to divide it, breaking off smaller crowns and forcing them on friends and relations with garden plots.

My friend and I are reasonably sure our variety is Victoria, a predominantly green variety which produces an enormous crop each year as long as the flowers are cut off. Rhubarb produces rather avant garde flowers on cylindrical stalks if left to its own devices; they look a little like an undersized head of cauliflower has been glued onto a green and pink baton.

As far as color goes, green rhubarb is less pretty than those radish-pink varieties, and it needs a little longer to cook completely, but the flavor is cleaner, less minerally.

If all you care about is gorgeous color, look for Colorado Red — its stalks are vibrantly fuchsia all the way through. It looks more like chard than anything else, but its closest relatives are sorrel and buckwheat. The part of it we eat is the petiole, a particular type of stalk; the other widely-eaten petiole is celery the two are totally unrelated.

So, rhubarb is absolutely a vegetable. Nonetheless, the U. Customs Court of New York declared it to be a fruit in , a decision repeated by a European Union directive. Since the USDA zone info for Seattle is not always accurate our actual date of last frost will vary from year to year.

Since half of the time in Seattle it frosts late in the year after March 15 be ready to protect your rhubarb if we have a late frost.

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