What’s not to love about Rhubarb? It’s the easiest thing to grow in Alaska and the moose don’t eat it.*
“Rhubarb stalk in southeastern Alaska,” ca. 1900 and ca. 1925, Frank and Frances Carpenter collection, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Rhubarb is a very popular garden plant in Alaska. “That’s because the few long days of summer sun there help rhubarb grow to five feet or more,” according to The Plate.
Want to know more? Check out Rhubarb or BUST, a blog all about growing rhubarb in Alaska.
Celebrate bitter things
after long winter
rhubarbs’ red green stalks
and partial sun. . .— Sheila Packa, from “Rhubarb“
*Renae Wall, from “What’s not to love about rhubarb,” Peninsula Clarion.
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