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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Posted by Craig Sailor @ 04:40:05 pm

I was inspired to shoot these photos of my next door neighbor's rhubarb patch by today's story on the tangy vegetable in the TNT food section.

My neighbor was just telling me last weekend about the glories of a rhubarb pie he made recently. It must have slipped his mind to offer me a piece.

I'm a fan of the red stalked plant not just for the great pies it makes but the look of the plant itself. Some nurseries offer ornamental varieties for your garden. But I think the standard culinary variety offers not only a food source but a big leafy presence in an ornamental landscape. I was just evaluating my garden last weekend and noticed it's heavy on small leaved plants and lacking large leaves.

Rhubarb, here I come...

Categories: Vegetables

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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. .

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune. She is a devoted vegetable gardener, but otherwise a tragic mess at growing just about anything else. Her current obsessions are growing tomatoes on a trellis and trying to convince all her South Hill neighbors to ditch the chemicals and go green in the garden (they are very suspicious of her). She’ll blog about garden gadgets, the latest garden trends and her current garden disasters. She is also the ringleader for the Home&Garden section, so e-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com. Use it.

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