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geofflambert -> RE: OT Things to ponder (8/10/2016 8:07:01 PM)
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Here's a little story about rhubarb. If you're not familiar with it you should take any opportunity to try some rhubarb pie. Some people like rhubarb/strawberry pie but I like it straight up and with a graham cracker crust best. Two times in recent years I have tried to grow some without success. You buy rhubarb roots and plant those. Every few years you have to divide the roots and replant the parts (if you wish), otherwise they get too big for the area you planted them in. Anyways, the first year I planted six roots and only one came up, and after awhile it just withered. That year we had six weeks where every single day the temperature peaked over 100°F. I tried watering them with refrigerated water but it did no good. The next year I tried again and that time all six I planted came up but then it got blazing hot and they all withered. When I was a kid my mother grew rhubarb in the back yard. Now the leaves are somewhat toxic but the stems, which resemble celery but most varieties are red, are wonderfully tart and sweet and nobody doesn't like rhubarb. We had a dachshund named Ginger who once tore one of those poisonous leaves off a plant and we all took off after her, chasing her around the yard worried that she'd be poisoned. If she ever had any interest in consuming the leaf it was immediately superseded by the great fun of getting everyone to chase her. From then on, anytime she got off her chain or her leash the same mini-drama would take place. Anyways, if I were ever going to make a pie that wasn't straight rhubarb I would try mixing it with Granny apples, not strawberries.
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