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Grandma Barbara-Anne Rhubarb Root

2025 Staff Favourite

Grandma Barbara-Anne Rhubarb is Steph's favourite this year! In her experience, “it makes a really pretty pink juice when cooked down. She used it to create a salad dressing that was lovely both in colour and flavour!”

All Staff Favourites are 20% off. The Staff Favourite Discount cannot be combined with other quantity discounts.

Species: Rheum sp

History: Zack's grandma Barbara-Anne grew this variety on her homestead near Poplar Hill. It has been enjoyed throughout the generations in a multitude of crisps, jams, tarts, sauces, and pies (see one of Mouse's pies in the pictures!).

Why We Grow It: Rhubarb is nutritious, incredibly easy to grow, and sports a showy bloom appreciated by both pollinators and humans. This perennial vegetable creates a lush, delicious ground cover and can be used to make a variety of delicious dishes.

A note on the "Grandma" Series: Inspired by Ken's 'Grandma Ethel Black currant', we decided to curate our own repertoire of family favourites grown by our grandmothers! Check out our tried-n-true gooseberries and raspberries in addition to the currants and rhubarb.

$12.00 $9.60
Quantity:

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Fruit Traits:

Recommended Use: Cooking, baking, jam, sauce

Fruit Size:

Storage: Keeps up to three weeks in the fridge

Harvest:

Tree Traits:

Canadian Hardiness Zone: 3

Soil Preferance: Prefers loam but adaptable to a variety of soils

Flowering Time: Spring - Late

Pollination Requirements: Self-pollinating

Sun/Shade Requirements: Full sun to partial shade (approx. 6-10 hours of sun daily)

General Growth Habit: Leafy plant reaches about 1m tall and wide, large leaves, likely fairly hardy and disease resistant, flowers May to early July

Shipping: Every year we ship thousands of plants across Canada. We carefully bag roots in damp sawdust, then box them and send them out via courier. CLICK HERE to see our shipping policy.

Pick-up: We also have thousands of trees picked up from our nursery each year. The pick-up options is free, though you must wait until you have been emailed a confirmation that your order is ready to pick up, which will have further information such as hours, locations, etc.

Un-grafted plants (berries, seedlings and vines) are graded by year. We follow industry standard. Species specific details will soon be updated to give you a clearer idea of size, as there can be a very large variation by species.

Grandma Barbara-Anne Rhubarb

Grandma Barbara-Anne Rhubarb Root

$12.00 $9.60
$12.00 $9.60

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