Hi,

I just moved into a house with garden beds and discovered some vegetables still growing in the ground. There is a root vegetable of some kind that has a red stalk and dark leaves, almost a deep purple. At the end of each shoot from the stalk there are 3 leaves. We pulled them out of the ground to transplant them when we moved and there were tubers of some kind attached. They were white at the time we pulled them in March. I have been searching and searching to find out what this is but nothing seems to match. I thought beets but no beet variety I have found matches the leaves. Please help!

The sun was glaring in these photos but I can get more if someone can help!

Hi Kim! Welcome to NGA!

It doesn't really look like rhubarb. That was my only guess!

Thanks! I thought that too but no! Hopefully someone else can help or when I dig it up I'll let you know:)

Kim. Is it definitely a vegetable? It looks somewhat like a dahlia:

Dahlia leaves (top picture on this page):
http://plantaliscious.janetbru...

Dahlia tuberous roots:
https://www.google.ca/search?q...

Oh my it could definitely be that!!

You'll know for sure if it eventually flowers!

Definitely not rhubarb -- which has a huge, single leaf at the top of each stalk. (And I'm not too sure rhubarb will grow in zone 9 -- the type that I have, Glaskin's Perpetual, is supposed to pretty much have a maximum growing zone of 7.)