JUNE'S FEATURE RECIPIE....................... BOTHERED BY APHIDS?
Rhubarb Facts.
- Rhubarb is botanically a vegetable.
- Throughout history rhubarb has been known for its medicinal properties rather than its culinary uses.
- Medical uses go back 5000 years when the Chinese used it dried as a laxative.
- Dried rhubarb roots were also used as an astringent.
- Romans imported their roots from China.
- Wartime Britain launched rhubarb as an ingredient in desserts and wine making
Rhubarb leaves are poisonous but boiled down in a stainless steel saucepan and the juices strained off the resulting liquid makes an excellent organic aphid killer.