When cooking cut up the stalks into one-inch pieces and stew them it is only necessary to barely cover the stalks with water because rhubarb stalks contain a great deal of water. Add 1/2 to 3/4 cup of sugar for each pound of rhubarb,

You may start this indoors 6 weeks before your last frost.

The leaves are mildly toxic, it is the stalk that is used.