Used to walk the garden with my grandaddy in the late 60s. We'd pick a stalk of rhubarb and chew it for the sweetness. Grandma would make awesome rhubarb pies. Yum.

@boxerblvd3514

3 ай бұрын

Strawberry rhubarb pie.😋😋

@thekingsdaughter4233

3 ай бұрын

Chew it for the _sweetness?!_ But rhubarb stalks are sour as anything, aren't they? Or are there different kinds?

@JuniorFarquar

3 ай бұрын

@@thekingsdaughter4233 Great question...I remember him being picky about the stalks he'd choose. It wasn't sweet like sugar cane, but it was more sweet than bitter! Probably the older stalks had produced more sugar.

@anonymanonym2679

2 ай бұрын

We always ate raw rhubarb. If it was too sour we just dipped it in sugar. Nothing ever happened😂

@JuniorFarquar

2 ай бұрын

@@anonymanonym2679 cast iron, my friend!

Not gonna lie, when you put the 'rhubarb' label on the bottle, my brain read it as 'husband' for some reason and I had a half second of panic for a man who may or may not even exist.

@thecottagepeach

3 ай бұрын

🤣

@iveylunetteroth

2 ай бұрын

I’m glad I wasn’t there the only one 😅

@00samira00

2 ай бұрын

Omg same! I was convinced that’s what it said and was wondering where this was going 🤣

@carolyntalbot947

2 ай бұрын

Her man better mind his p’s & q’s 😅

@peasparsleyandprayers2817

2 ай бұрын

I read it like that too. LOL

Oxalic acid is used to fight varua (hope I spelled it correctly) which is a bug parasite that targets bees, so if you have bees you could try to extract the acid and use it on your infected bees.

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Some beekeepers put rhubarb leaves in their hive for this reason

@wordzmyth

2 ай бұрын

Varoa mite. We have it in NZ

I didn't realize the poison was oxalic acid. You're growing Barkeeper's Friend in your garden! 😂

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Yep!

@are_you_a_noahide_yet

23 күн бұрын

Wait..what? OMG so glad I don't use that stuff!

@phantomkate6

23 күн бұрын

@@are_you_a_noahide_yet There's no reason to fear a cleaning agent, provided you don't try to eat it.

As someone who gardens in the tropics: yes it is every day that i grow something poisonous with the intention of eating it 🤣 from the cyanide in cassava to the oxalic acid in taro to the arsenic in some of my grain crops, many plants here have their own defenses to keep away animals. All we have to do is process them properly!

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Fair enough!

barkeepers friend was invented because of boiling rhubarb leaves!

When I was little my Nan grew rhubarb in her garden and we walked around with the leaves on our heads like hats to keep the mosquitos away

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Cute!

@drakep271

2 ай бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised if she was lying and just said it because she thought it was adorable 😂❤

@TheKaykiwi

2 ай бұрын

That is the cutest thing I've ever heard! lol

I noticed you’re using it as an insect repellent, but the insects in my garden just devour the rhubarb leaves. I’ve always wondered about that. The snails love them as well. Everything I’ve read says that they are poisonous to insects and pests, but that’s not the experience I have.

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

That’s really strange!

@aliceboyblue

2 ай бұрын

Have you tried paring it with other bug killing crops? Rosemary thyme lavender garlic onions rhubarb pepper spray?

Did not know that... Thank You 😊🫡🙌🏼

@thecottagepeach

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

So my sister was on a weight loss spree and roped me into it as well, Anyway she didn't know what spinach looked like and got rhubarb instead. Made a smothee and it was the most foul thing I have ever tried.

@Betty-mm9gz

2 ай бұрын

😂

We also used them between garden rows as weed control ground cover.

You can also use them as hats for a little while. 😊

I always laid them back on the ground over the remains of my rhubarb plants and let them decompose there.

@thecottagepeach

3 ай бұрын

That works too!

I stew my rhubarb with onions, sugar, and vinegar, and make a relish! great on meat dishes!

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Sounds great!

Beets are high in oxalic acid also. It's poisonous at high levels.

You can also use it for laundry. They're good for stains.

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

totally

@karenlewkowitz5858

2 ай бұрын

Oh! How are the leaves used for laundry? Soak in tap water to make the solution? Please share your method!

We grew up eating rhubarb crumble in the UK and you can still buy rhubarb at the shops.

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

This video is about the leaves, not the stalks which are edible.

Could you write in the comment how you use the leaves? I don't understand what you are saying. It is to fast.

@MrPilotguy20

Ай бұрын

She says a lot of things you can use the leaves for but doesn't explain how to do any of them. The main one she shows in the video was making a bug repellant to spray on plants: steep rhubarb leaves in hot water (maybe boil them for a while?) and then put the remaining liquid in a spray bottle. Other things she mentioned were making a slug trap, shine pots and pans, and making a natural dye. You can also safely compost them.

You can also dry the leaves and make them into a lovely tea that you give to the coworker who keeps taking your parking spot.

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

😬😬

The oxalic acids are not the worst part. There is an unidentified toxin in the leaves that can cause rhubarb poisoning which causes sickness and can potentially be fatal. Though poisoning isn't common it's still a very real possibility. Women and children especially unborn children are the most susceptible. I just learned a bit on it yesterday interestingly enough.

Nice greenstalk planter!

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

I love it!

Your channel is so valuable

@thecottagepeach

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

I use the leaves as hats bc i am usually outside eating it right out of the ground and its usually raining when its up LMAO

That's so neat! It's a natural cleaner growing your garden

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

I think so too!

@carinadouah1951

2 ай бұрын

How do you use them for cleaning?

@carinadouah1951

2 ай бұрын

How do you use the leaves for cleaning?

@HiruHeart

2 ай бұрын

@@carinadouah1951 she explains it in the video. That's what I was referring to !

Uuummm... I used to eat rubard leaves..... i would cook them up.

@phantomkate6

2 ай бұрын

☠️

@rawdaaljawhary4174

2 ай бұрын

Are you sure it's the same plant? What happened? Did your stomach ever hurt? Did you eat them often? I hope you're okay.

@HollenbergR

2 ай бұрын

Do you ever get kidney stones?

@crystalh4016

2 ай бұрын

@@HollenbergR nope. Never in my life, actually

The stem of rhubarb is completely edible, since I was a child I have taken the stem straight from the ground, peeled it and eaten it raw, it also makes a very good rhubarb soup, boil water, put the chopped stems into boiling water, potato flour and boil for a few minutes, let it cool and put whipped cream on top, that's good

Shes so pretty 🫠

I miss the homemade rhubarb pies

I wonder about poisonous edible plants. Like how many people got really sick or died from eating the wrong part before they figured out the safe parts. Also why would they keep trying it?

@Lilacs4

2 ай бұрын

I always wondered this too!

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

I've thought the same thing!

You are a gem. I would’ve sautéed those with garlic and served it to guests

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Glad you didn’t 🤣

@zc4258

2 ай бұрын

I ate them 3 weeks ago. Sautéed with garlic. 😮 Geez... I had no idea they were poisonous.

Rhubarb LEAVES are poisonous but the red stalk is actually edible. My siblings and i used to have this neighbor who grew apple trees and rhubarb and we would go to their house all the time and grab a few apples and rhubarb to snack on

@johannbauer2863

2 ай бұрын

Isnt that what she says?

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Yep, that’s what I said 👍

@AnneZomerdijk-nv9ye

2 ай бұрын

I have rhubarb in my garden too but recently learned from my neighbour that apparently it's a non edible kind and poisonous as well. The red stalk I mean. Does anyone know more about that?

@jellycanto8304

2 ай бұрын

@@AnneZomerdijk-nv9ye maybe it's a cousin to rhubarb. My sister has a cousin to rhubarb where the red part is pink and I mean like a vibrant almost purple kind of pink

I have always ate these as a kid never bothered me just very sour and yummy

The stalks have quite a bit of oxalates too and some people are sensitive to it. I love rhubarb.

Thank you! ❤

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome 😊

Excellent content, Keep up the great videos!!

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

Thanks for another reason to grow rhubarb!

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

You bet!

In Ga my family calls a dish they make with this Poke Salad. Great grandma used to boil them

@thealrightygina5725

2 ай бұрын

Poke salad isn't made with rhubarb. It's made with pokeweed, a generally non cultivated plant that ranges from ever so slightly poisonous to do not eat under any circumstances depending on the time of year/age of the plant. If they were harvesting them when they looked like rhubarb (ie the stems were red/purple) that's generally considered too late to be safe but hey if everyone was ok after eating I guess it was alright. But just know what you're doing if you make it. It's delicious when done right but you have to be careful.

@nikkinoodlesoup

2 ай бұрын

@@thealrightygina5725 You are so right! It was Pokeweed! Haha I can’t believe I mixed that up. Thank you 🙏🏼

I've made soup from the leaves and I am fine.

@Rocioslane

2 ай бұрын

I’ve juiced them as well, so I’m a bit confused myself 🤔

❤

Great ideas

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

I've been eating this all my childhood, that was my favorite, and in big quantities, never got sick. You can find strawberry pie with rhubarb at the stores, they are delicious.

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

This video is about the leaves not the stems.

@rachelliz4786

2 ай бұрын

The part of rhubarb that we've all been eating is the stem, not the leaves. The reason you can only find the stems in most stores is because people were unaware of the dangers of eating the leaves and ended up poisoning themselves and their families so now the leaves are removed before they are sold and most people don't even know that there is a leaf that grows on the end of the stem. The only reason I know this is cause my family had to start growing it because I loved it so much as a young child and we couldn't afford to buy enough of it to keep me happy 😅 my family now calls me rhubarb as a nickname

@BL-xz3ym

2 ай бұрын

Please don’t vote.

...my mom and grandma make with this read part cakes, and like compote(if I mistake sorry😅)

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Yep you can eat the stems I’m talking about it the leaves

I used to eat the stem and use the leaf as a hat as a kid.

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Yes!

You just gave me a flashback to the pastors son showing me the rhubarbs and trying to make me eat the leaves They never grew those again after the pastor heard, so now I know why!

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

😬😬

It's good to give this information out a lot of people don't know that they are poisonous !!

Absolutely love rhubarb!

@thecottagepeach

3 ай бұрын

So good!

What a cool idea.

My long dead grandma used to make the best strawberry rhubarb pie ever!❤

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

I bet it was delicious!

Me and my friends who used to munch on rhubarb leaves as children:🤡 How we never got sick is beyond me.

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

iron stomaches!

Thank you for this very valuable information 🎉🎉🎉

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Oxalic Acid is the ingredient in barkeepers friend! Thats why it cleans so well

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Exactly

Read the book, "Toxic Superfoods" by Sally K Norton. Oxalic Acid is in a lot of the foods we eat, including many foods are told are healthy. Many plants have awful ways they punish us for eating them. Oxalates are just one of the ways.

@jameseenacoene5769

Ай бұрын

They also cause kidney stones.

Thanks for this information

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Any time

Rhubarb leaves for dyeing? What color do they give and is it a lightfast or fugitive dye?

“it’s not every day you grow something poisonous in your garden with the intention of eating it” You don’t know me…

Thankyou.

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome

isnt oxalic acid what you use to get stains out of wood when restoring furniture? but like a powdered form

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Yes it is!

Are those tassel hyacinths or muscaris? Love them!

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Muscari! Have them everywhere

@BC-bt7hu

2 ай бұрын

@@thecottagepeach They're so delicate! Where I live, it's tassel hyacinths everywhere because not so many people know that the bulb is edible 😋 I put some in my garden next the few Muscaris I have

Poisenis, we used to always make rubarb pie with all of ours

Dad alway made rubarb vino..😅 th x for these tips.

I thought that were beetroot greens. They're a bit more elongated and perfectly edible. The taste is neutral.

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

They look similar but are much larger.

They taste God-awlful.

@thecottagepeach

Ай бұрын

To each their own 👍

I'm not a big technical person so how do I follow you? I am just learning how to grow my own vegetables and I love to learn new things. Please and Thank You, Tammy

@thecottagepeach

Ай бұрын

Hi Tammy, at the bottom next to my username there should be a white oval button that says subscribe ☺️🌱

Your the Person who is “ Yay, going in the garden”. I am like “ Yep, garden needs some gardening. Been a long season.

How do you keep critters out of the scrape bin?

@thecottagepeach

Ай бұрын

I don’t 🤣

Aaah, I remember as a kid just grabbing a rhubarb, breaking off the leaf then dipping the “stem” thing in sugar and eating it. So freakin good. I miss having them in my garden

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

I really need to try this

@tiny-angry-chicken

2 ай бұрын

@@thecottagepeach I really recommend it 👌

❤❤

My grandmother grew massive quantities of several varieties of rhubarb. No matter your age, she would remind visitors not to nibble the leaves because it would kill you deader than dead like the things in her poison garden. (Shade garden) Rhubarb makes a nice rustic wine if you add white grape juice to the must. Same trick works with gooseberry wine.

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Rhubarb wine sounds delicious

@user-qt4mz7di8d

2 ай бұрын

@@thecottagepeachmy aunt took her recipe to the grave. So if you play with making, suggest using champagne yeast at the begaining. And don't toss out earily attempts. I had a run that was a horrible new wine. Just resting in bottle for a while (like 2 years) it turned into something sorta nice. The champagne yeasted rice wine, which tasted like boiled lemonade as new turned out really nice. Me and mine had gotten snowed in and no one was going much of anywhere so my hoard of "mistakes" ended up being the Holiday booze. There are a number of competent brewing and vintner books. An amazing number of hardwear stores carry supplies for beer and wine making. Fyi, you can attract cats with brewing certain beers. This can be an addictive practice. If it was a fruit or herb, aunt tried to make wine of it.

Rhubarb is AMAZING at making cake

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

So good

Oxalic acid is used a lot in beekeeping. I wonder if this could an alternative

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Lots of reports of laying a leaf on top of the frames. I will be testing this year

@FarOutBeautifulMajik

2 ай бұрын

@@thecottagepeach I’ve got to try this! That’s awesome 🐝💫

I mean, oxalic acid isnt great for you, but there are other foods that have hust as nuch, ir more. Id imagine its more of a dosage problem. You dont eat a ton of chives all at once, but with those big green leaves, you could get a large dose eating just one. If you exchanged one for one, i believe the rhubarb has less.

The camera movements gave me vertigo. 😂

Sounds like a great skincare if diluted

I feel like my grandparents shouldve told me this when I used to eat raw rhubarb straight from the garden

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

You can eat the stems but not the leaves

In Poland we bake cake with rabarbar 😂Its fully eidable

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

The stems are edible, this video is about the leaves.

My step mom tried to make me eat it raw.

@thecottagepeach

3 ай бұрын

Yikes 😳

@ixagonczi

2 ай бұрын

I used to eat the roots raw, I think it's just the leaves you should avoid

@terri3715

2 ай бұрын

Eating the stalks rare is completely fine. It's the leaves that shouldn't be eaten.

Me growing tomatoes and potatoes every year with their poisonous nightshade leaves: 👁️👄👁️

Oxalic acid is also found in spinach

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

In much lower amounts

I'm British and we grew up eating rhubarb the red stem is edible

@thecottagepeach

Ай бұрын

This video isn’t about the stem. I’m talking about the leaves

@Tashismmedia

Ай бұрын

@@thecottagepeach you should pointed out the edible part 💁

Might be being dim here but do you just add water and pop it in dishes for slug traps?

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Just lay the leaf on the ground they will gather underneath it, and then you can dispose of them

@AcestarArtworks

2 ай бұрын

@@thecottagepeach ooo thanks I will give it a go 😊

I miss our rhubarb plant....

The thing I don’t understand is yes a lot of oxalic acid is dangerous but there are vegetables we eat with more oxalic acid than is found in rhubarb leaves

I grow them just for the look . I am scare of eat them..lol

Can the dried rhubarb leaves be used as mulch?

@thecottagepeach

Ай бұрын

I think they break down too fast

You can also use them as multch

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

So true

Holy shit I have def eaten rhubarb leaves before. Only once. I had no idea they weren’t edible.

I’ll turnover a new leaf 🫰🏼🦘✅

I mean it sounds like an everyday thing for u

I miss strawberry rhubarb pie

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

So good

Alex Dunphy taught me this

If that's true then why do they sell the leaves along with the stock at the grocery store?

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Maybe you're thinking of beets or swiss chard? They look similar. I've never seen rhubarb with leaves sold at a grocery store.

Ayo why did you stroke the shaft of the rhubarb like that 😁

uh so those purple flowers in the camera with the thick-ish stalks are death camas. i have some in my yard and i pulled them up and they look a bit like wild onions if you havent really seen wild onions, but they are fatal

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

No. They are grape hyacinths

@-bone_collector-

2 ай бұрын

@@thecottagepeach ohh thanks mb

@-bone_collector-

2 ай бұрын

@@thecottagepeach i did a bit more research and found that the stuff in my yard is something else woops

I'm mexican and today find a muffin recipe with this plant (the book comes in english), first time hearing about it and now it turns out it's poisonous?

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

The stems are edible. This video is about the leaves

I eat them on soups 😅

You can eat the stem though, right..?

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Yes

Barbara's rhubarb bar

I watched your video five times, and barely understood the part starting with what you can do with rhubarb leaves. Slower next time, please.

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

Over 300k other people have watched this video and no one else has had this complaint. Unfortunately it is just the nature of short form video to be fast. I have lots of longer slower videos on my channel 👍

Spinach actually contains more oxalic acid than rhubarb leaves. There was an interesting national geographic article talking about how it was only after the government encouraged people to eat rhubarb leaves as an option for greens in wartime that a man died after eating a (not literal) ton of it. . . Not that I’m about to start eating it, lol. Interesting though!

@candacewithana4929

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, we really shouldn't eat Kale, spinach, or collard/ mustard greens.

Can rhubarb ruin compost?

@thecottagepeach

2 ай бұрын

nope the oxalic acid breaks down fast