I made a guess and then checked on Google Image and I was right 😊

I have no clue! Base looks sort of like an apple - the green looks like a succulent. But then it kind of doesn’t look plant like either. I gave up so I did the image thing too. OMG!! My mom had a large amount in her garden in MT when I was very young.

Well, I had no clue either! But Google is my best friend 😉

No idea and too lazy to google

I sure do! My spring friend.

Am I supposed to fertilize? I don’t have any ”dressing” and I have larhe clumps that I have not divided in 20 -25 years. Now or in the fall? Rrrr. ?

Yep. A very familiar sight. A common sight in many British gardens at this time of year. Sometimes forced by keeping it in the dark to produce long delicate stems. I have two clumps on my allotment. It looks as if yours is going to produce a flower which needs to be cut off when it grows.

As to fertilizing it does enjoy a good heap of muck on its head over winter. In my climate divide in winter.

Waldorf salad?

Easy it's SPRING!!!! I love watching perennial plants emerge.

What is it? Rhubarb?

A Triffid..........run for your lives, nyuk !

Or a Tribble. Now that’s trouble.

Not common here, and the only time I've had it was when I was in Michigan. I never see it in stores here.

Is it Audrey and getting ready to say "Feed me Seymour!"?

No Triffids here! lol

Yes, it's rhubarb! Caflowerluver gets the . . . um . . . virtual prize! 😎

I don't know who planted this rhubarb, or when, but my family has been enjoying it since 1975.

I knew what it was but didn't want to let the cat out of the bag too soon.

When I was a kid I called it ”poison rhubarb” which my mom thought was funny. Someone had told me the leaves are poison. I think that’s why the deer leave them alone. I have many fond memories of my mom’s rhubarb sauce over ice cream & both rhubarb pie & rhubarb & strawberry pie.

The leaves are definitely poison. I sometimes wonder about the unfortunate people who made this discovery. And the brave people who ate the first tomato, etc.

Floral_uk, I could tell. 😊 Thanks for the reminder about cutting off the flower.

Is now the time to divide? Is it easy to see the individual plants? Mine need it but I'm nervous about doing so.

Gosh, lazy me . . . I've never divided the rhubarb (almost 50 years!), and I'd be afraid to start now. It just keeps producing every year . I hope I didn't just jinx it.

Re: rhubarb leaves being toxic/poisonous: yes. 70 years ago, when my younger sister was born with allergies to cows milk and baby formula, it was recommended that my dad buy a goat or two for their milk, which was suitable for the baby. So he did. But both were MALE goats, so guess what? No milk, lol.

The goats did do a great job keeping the wilderness at bay on our 10 acre former asparagus farm, but one day they discovered the old rhubarb plants, ate the leaves and soon after vomited the nastiest ropy, white stuff as reaction. Both goats lived and remained pets for us children for many years...

IIRC, the leave have a crystal or spicule sort of component. I’ll have to look it up. Oxalic acid!

I think I would have liked to have had some goats as pets - my grandfather had some, but I don't remember them as being friendly.

We had some sheep when I was in junior high school, but no one told me about them until a classmate asked me about them, and I told him that we did not have any, but then my father told me that we did. We had hundreds of acres, and so I couldn't possible know what all we had.

I didn't like going outside growing up in Texas, mainly because of the heat, but also because of my allergies.

Aziline, rhubarb is divided when it is dormant. Not knowing your location it's not possible to say if you've left it too late or are too early. Here it's a winter job but our ground never freezes. You dig up the root and just chop it up with a spade or hefty knife.

Lars, I wouldn't say that goats - at least the ones we had - are particularly friendly. One of ours was a positive menace to be around, always butting us which was most unpleasant. The other one was fairly "nice" most of the time.

I wonder if pygmy goats, or the fainting type, would be friendlier...

(sorry for the diversion from the original post!)

Finally got something right! Growing up in New England us kids would eat the raw stalks dipped in sugar as a treat.

Thanks Floral! Mine already looks like the pic. Our ground freezes so I'll wait until late fall.

Rhubarb is such a quandary. It makes the most delicious pie. (No strawberries added please) but to make it edible it takes sooo much sugar. I divided mine a few years ago. We divided my #1 DDs last year and moved #2 DDs across the yard, the year before that. We did it in the fall. It helped all the clumps to thrive.