I bought rhubarb for the first time yesterday. It is very nice looking as far I could tell. I paid 2.99 a pound at Raley's in Modesto, CA. This store isn't the cheapest in town nor the most expensive.

It is in our grocery stores anywhere from $1.99 to $2.99 per pound. I picked up 4 bunches of rhubarb at the farmers market yesterday for $1.00 per bunch. Each bunch weighing a pound.

Ann

I just pulled rhubarb, and I'm just starting to see it in the stores here. Right now it's anywhere from $1.49 to $2.49 a pound, but it'll be cheaper in a week or two.

I made rhubarb pie for Mother's Day with mine.

Annie

Here is central Maryland I usually pay $2.99 - $3.99 a pound at the grocery store. Safeway usually has the best looking rhubarb of all the grocery stores. The other stores usually have a meager selection of limp rhubarb.

I usually only buy it once a year for my annual rhubarb pie so I don't object much to the price.

The farmers markets are just opening, so it may be cheaper there.

Yeah Momj, limp and meager selection of rhubarb, that has been my typical experience here in NE PA. It just must not be an east coast thing. Our big "farm market" here in Allentown actually carries very little local produce, and I didn't see rhubarb there last week, but I went at the end of the market on Saturday. There is a produce market in town which has the best prices for all the imported stuff, I guess I can look there. But since all that stuff is imported, the price is good there but the quality spotty. Sometimes great stuff for a good price, sometimes marginal stuff for a low price, which I have found just isn't worth it in the long run. We have some real farm markets around here but I have never seen rhubarb offered. I think it comes on too early in the season, a lot of those places aren't open for produce yet.

Lpink, I was at the same Allentown market on Thursday and all the produce stands had nice fresh rhubarb so they were probably sold out when you went. I didn't notice the price because I am not a fan of rhubarb but it was 2 bunches for $3 at Reningers farm market in Kutztown on Saturday morning. A bunch was about 3/4 of a pound.

There is rhubarb at every farm stand and farmers market and grocery here in Bucks. I dont care for it so I've never lookied at the price, but I will check for you this afternoon.

Alexa

Thanks for the tips Ruthanna! I am going to the Allentown Farm Market this week either Thursday night or Friday AM. Normally I go on Saturdays late in the day to get the good deals but I'm taking off work this week to go, to prepare for my barbecue for my students. Kutztown is about a 45 min. drive. I'll have to check out that market when I have more time and strength, I'm still weak from a persistent cough.

Linda I've lived here for 8 years and have walked all around my neighborhood countless times and have never seen rhubarb, (and believe me I spend most of my time on my walks scoping out the plants in people's yards, it's my field), but that doesn't mean it isn't in some gardens out in the suburbs. I live in an urban row house area, vegetable gardeners usually focus on tomatoes and peppers, rhubarb takes up too much space and is somewhat unsightly, or I would plant it in a heartbeat. Some people have bedrooms bigger than my backyard. I'm always torn in my backyard between plants that look nice and smell good to enjoy when I'm sitting out there, and stuff to eat. I don't have enough room for both. This year I got a community garden plot, but planting rhubarb there wouldn't pay off at this point.

Linda, one of the vendors at our farmers market once told me that she feels sorry for the people that buy rhubarb. She said they mustn't have any friends. Her point being that rhubarb grows in so many gardens that surely someone would give you some.

One of my immediate neighbours has a huge rhubarb garden, but he is a miserable SOB that won't talk to anymore. His rhubarb just goes to waste.

I was going to plant rhubarb, but Clif planted it in his garden for me last year. Can't harvest any this year, but maybe next year.

Ann

Hi I have a small patch that I have been nursing for years from my mom's place it is a very good strain! There are different strains of that vegetable some not as tasty as others! I have both types of that product. I sell my fresh picked rhubarb for $3.00 a pound but my pound is like a bakers dozen. Hope this helps those that are interested in the rhubarb trade! Had a chef worked in NY city, his bartender friend use to make a bar drink. They extracted the juice and made up a new drink. He came back to me and said he would buy all I could supply. Business was good back then. Thanks, Tom from CT.

I like rhubarb, and ordered some back in January to plant here. Everything else arrived... but no rhubarb.

I realize this original post is 10 years old. But nice to see Ann_t's rhubarb is huge. She recently posted her first gorgeous Spring pie just a few days ago.

Her original post here was hoping for an eventual crop...ten years ago.

I have 3-400 hundred pounds. Not sure what to do but might put bundles by the side of the road for free. The past 20 years we took it into work and had many takers from city co-workers remembering their childhood.

Last couple of years the local market sold for 7-8 dollars a pound. (yikes)

I juice mine. It is an excellent addition with other veg. Apple, ginger, turmeric, rhubarb. ...

A super thickener in homemade bbq sauce. Many recipes beyond pie.

No time for that now.

I just bought rhubarb at a farm outside Columbus, In for $2.98 a pound. It's much, much nicer than any grocer's I've ever see. The groceries her don't have any in yet and last year it was $3.98 a pound. A friend made strawberry/rhubarb apple butter last week.

Madonna

3-400 lbs, sleeve?! THAT's a big row of rhubarb! :) I love rhubarb and all tart things. When I was a kid the neighbor had a huge row and I would stop and knock to ask if I could take a stalk to eat. She was such a nasty woman that she would only begrudgingly allow it. I shoveled her driveway in storms for free and she held back her rhubarb. That's harsh. lol!

It is a huge row. I have my three mother mounds, then have divided over the years. It grows without effort. No watering, self-mulching. This row was from divisions, (row continues behind me in the pic). This row took a few years. Then last years took off. I had planned to continue with a long row every two years 5 ft apart but got busy with other things. I don't need this much obviously but the neighbors are happy.

Pic from last Spring.

sleevendog, I just cut mine today, and I should have done it two weeks ago, but other things took precedence. Funny how I'm just as busy as I have been, my life hasn't changed at all except now that everyone else is at home they all want me to do something for them, sheesh. Don't they know it's gardening season??!! I spent 6 hours yesterday and 7 hours today planting the garden. Elery was busy helping Dave do some electrical wiring, they're remodeling Amanda's kitchen, so he couldn't help. Mother is 85 so she can't help. I had to hire The Princess to stay with Mother because she will NOT use a walker, so The Princess couldn't help. That meant I happily spent those hours playing in the dirt, talking to my cows and no one bothered me at all. And, since I was there any way, I cut the rhubarb.

A pie is on the schedule for tomorrow and 2 quarts went into the freezer but much of it was hollow seed head stalks and some of it was already enormous and fibrous, so I'll have to wait for the next cutting if I'm going to freeze any more.

Yours is so nice and red, the variety I have is mostly green, so not as pretty but it still tastes good!

L, take a drive up in a couple of months, I'll GIVE you rhubarb!

Annie

free, if you know someone who has it.

'yeah, take a bag'

sleeve, those are gorgeous views!!! I <3 NY. :)

I picked my first rhubarb yesterday too! It was a gorgeous day and I spent the whole day potting up some things, mowing, weedwhacking, trimming back my elderberries and blackberries, then tilling one of my small veg gardens. I made rhubarb sauce to go with vanilla ice cream (didn't want the oven on). Unfortunately, once I finished tilling I was done because my arms didn't stop shaking for hours. lol! Really wish I could have golfed too. And this morning we're getting unexpected RAIN! :(