Re: rhubarb

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from Janet Tweedy <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:

Thinking about replacing my old clump of rhubarb, and paying attention
to janet B's recommendations to throw everything into a 6 foot hole
including old shoes to help feed it .

Four feet is ample.

However I can only find ordinary stuff. I would like on of the champagne
varieties that are supposed to be the best type.

Horses for courses. I'm growing Timperley Early, though champers rhubarb
responds well to gross feeding.

Who would sell such plants please?


Why don't you just take cuttings/splittings from the outside of the crown?

And remember - the old codgers always said: don't even pull a single
stick in the first year. So, if you just take a cutting or cuttings from
the outside and feed it well, you can still have rhubarb from the old
crown.

Even old crowns like a feed, and respond well. (I've been piling kitchen
waste and fresh horse manure round my rhubarb, but not too close to the
crown. In a while the whole lot will be covered with well-rotted
straw-mould and capped with half-rotted straw to keep the warmth of the
horsh and waste in.

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Rusty
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