Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
We were so gauche....initially when my parents bought this rundown house, in the backyard, we kept chopping down this furiously fast growing head of red stalks and big leaves... What was this weed???

It was a whole patch of rhubarb. We found out ...years later.
Ha! We had a similiar experience. When we were kids, my parents bought this huge old (200 years old) house on a farm. We only had a few acres surrounding the house, but my mom tried planting corn (the crows got it) and strawberries (the rabbits got them).

We found a huge patch of rhubarb and another of asparagus. We never harvested either because my mom had no idea what to do with rhubarb (silly city folk) and she kept trying to harvest asparagus in the summer and kept wondering why it didn't look right (again, silly city folk!).

I was at most 8, when we lived in that house and I remember these things!

Oh, and let me point out that if the internet did not exist, I'm pretty sure my husband and I would be facing failure upon failure. Instant research has saved us countless times already!