first year of harvesting rhubarb is it eatable

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It's edible the first year but you'll put too much stress on the poor little plant if you take leaf stems off it so soon.
Sure, but why would you want to?

As a kid, when it was my turn to mop the kitchen floor, I would dump the dirty mop water on the rubarb plant outside the back porch door, in attempt to kill it.    Little did I know or realize that I was preventing the bugs from eating the rubarb leaves therefore making the rubarb a healthy planting.  I wondered why it was thriving.  Bummer.  My sister would sit on the back steps with a salt shaker and munch away on the stems of that nasty plant.  I still, at age 76, don't like rubarb.

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