I grew up eating rhubarb pulled from the ground. I wonder what it tastes like without dirt on it? Of course I wiped most of it off on my pants before eating. I was always more sophisticated than the average kid. I'm going to make some oatmeal/raisin cookies next, and wait until the first fresh rhubarb hits the fruit and vegetable section of the local supermarket.

For many years I had a good-sized garden and grew the usual stuff, plus asparagus and celery, and had some blueberry bushes. I enjoyed it enormously but I find pleasures elsewhere now and don't have the time to care for a garden. I do manage to have a large harvest of crab grass to pull out every year, though.