rhubarb

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i am new to this growing your own so need some help please with rhubarb. Planted a rhubarb in September and it has grown nicely but it has like white flowers, leaves with green stems that growing near the bottom of main stalk. Stems are not red. Can anyone tell me what to do please.
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hi there! you should break off the flower stems, so that the plant concentrates on making more leaf stems.
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thanks
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If there is no red anywhere on the plant I would doubt what you have got.
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There are related ornamental plants.
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