@edgarblythe,
you pobably cant grow rhubarb near Houston. It needs a 4 week (minimum) solid ground freeze to stratify for spring bloom.
You aint missing anything.
Id just eat the strawbrries . I usd to us a lot of the acid thats in rhubarb when we would clean iron oxie stains from zircon crystals in order to accurately do isotope dating of the zircons. It gives off a rank smell(even in a lab hood) .OY that smell reminded so much of rhubarb so I learned to really hate that stuff. But a neighbor brought a pie over and we all dismasked and ate pie and drank iced coffee at safe distances apart by our picnic table. It was impolite to gag.
