{"id":18979,"date":"2018-03-08T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18979"},"modified":"2018-03-08T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:30:00","slug":"rhubarb-all-the-talk-at-a-local-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/rhubarb-all-the-talk-at-a-local-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhubarb All the Talk at a Local Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Rhubarb by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4541595748\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4051\/4541595748_5c0875cc76.jpg\" alt=\"Rhubarb\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>Early Spring Rhubarb breaking Through<\/p>\n<h3>What Does Rhubarb Mean to You<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Rhubarb is a vegetable that thinks it is a fruit and has royal pretensions with top varieties called Victoria and Early Albert<\/li>\n<li>Rhubarb Rhubarb\u00c2\u00a0Rhubarb is an indistinct chant\u00c2\u00a0 or none sense word shouted out in an unsynchronised manner at a public event.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"st\" data-hveid=\"72\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwjB57jdoYrYAhXJ7hoKHVRnAX8Q4EUISDAF\"> &#8216;A rhubarb&#8217; is baseball slang for a fight or argument among players.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"st\">\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Stop talking rhubarb&#8221;. <\/span><span class=\"st\">Complete and utter balderdash and b*****s.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Stewed or in a pie it is the food of gods. Even raw with the stick end just dipped in a little sugar &#8211; gear nosh.<\/li>\n<li>Already his year I have had Rhubarb flavoured gin and a special cider flavoured as Rhubarb and custard.<\/li>\n<li>According to some &#8216;Its very name means \u00e2\u20ac\u0153food of the barbarians\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the people who live beyond the Rha, now the river Volga&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>To some less fortunate Rhubarb is a strong purgative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>In Praise of Growing Rhubarb<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of the earliest crops in the garden.<\/li>\n<li>It can be forced into even earlier cropping if kept in the dark with a bit of warmth eg from a straw wrapper in an upturned bucket. The stems will then be thin, blanched pink and juicy.<\/li>\n<li>Rhubarb is hardy and if fed and watered will produce for many years.<\/li>\n<li>The big leaves are easy to compost. Even though they contain Oxalic acid they do no harm in the compost heap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbimage aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9e\/CSA-Rhubarb.jpg\/220px-CSA-Rhubarb.jpg\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9e\/CSA-Rhubarb.jpg\/330px-CSA-Rhubarb.jpg 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9e\/CSA-Rhubarb.jpg\/440px-CSA-Rhubarb.jpg 2x\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"127\" data-file-width=\"4470\" data-file-height=\"2580\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Young Stems<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Spring Rhubarb breaking Through What Does Rhubarb Mean to You Rhubarb is a vegetable that thinks it is a fruit and has royal pretensions with top varieties called Victoria and Early Albert Rhubarb Rhubarb\u00c2\u00a0Rhubarb is an indistinct chant\u00c2\u00a0 or none sense word shouted out in an unsynchronised manner at a public event. &#8216;A rhubarb&#8217; is baseball slang for a fight or argument among players. \u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Stop talking rhubarb&#8221;. Complete and utter balderdash and b*****s. Stewed or in a pie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/rhubarb-all-the-talk-at-a-local-society\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19153,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979\/revisions\/19153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}