One of the largest perennial vegetables you can grow at home, tart rhubarb is usually treated as a fruit. When combined with plenty of sugar, it can be used to bake delectably sweet-sour desserts like ...

Let’s set the record straight: Rhubarb is a vegetable, though it’s often put to the same culinary uses as fruit. Think jellies, sauces and pies. The confusion on rhubarb’s standing in the food world ...

My wife says the only thing I’ll plant is what I can eat. Not entirely true, I tell her. I point to certain things I’ve planted: the cluster of yellow iris in the side yard, the bunch of white iris in ...

Rhubarb aficionados should get ready for the prime harvest period come early June, yet a word of caution is in order. One must keep an eye on the rhubarb's crown now to ensure a plentiful bounty. As ...

Rhubarb is an old garden favorite for many of us who grew up enjoying its unique tart flavor in pies, cobblers and sauces. But rhubarb is a northern-grown perennial, not adapted to subtropical regions ...

Historically, three individuals who lived in the greater Los Angeles area stand out for their contributions to fruit growing in this part of the world. The first is Eliza Tibbets who planted a ...