Rhubarb question for any gardner out there.
May 14, 2014 17:50:16 #
The Dutchman wrote:
Older plants need to be divided or they die off! I started dividing mine after 6 years and let the older ones go to seed....
"Weather no doubt has a role to play as well. Rhubarb is a cool season perennial that can remain productive for 8-15 years, if given proper care. Plant stress, such as temperatures above 90 F, prolonged drought during hot weather, poor nutrition, etc., may also promote bolting."
THE TIME TO DIVIDE THE PLANTS IS IN VERY EARLY SPRING BEFORE THEY COME OUT OF DORMANCY. IT IS TOO LATE NOW TO DO IT WITHOUT WRECKING THE PLANT. Damn, Dutch, are we going to get into a fight here? I'm trying to keep Patty from messing up her plants and you keep offering advice that's out of phase with the season. Yeah, you can divide them up at 6 years or even 4 years but DO IT WHEN THEY'RE DORMANT.
Sheesh.
May 14, 2014 18:22:03 #
B****sheep wrote:
"Weather no doubt has a role to play as well.... (show quote)
I don't have a clue what her location is, that's why I sent here the Farmers Almanac info. I live at 7,200 feet elevation and divide mine in late fall. Rhubarb like my wild asparagus require the least attention of anything in my garden. The tourists that seem to wander this far up the hill are always in fascinated with the Rhubarb I let go to flower as are they with the snow cone tulips I have.
We only use the Rhubarb in a Raspberry sauce sweetened with local honey from my hives....
May 14, 2014 18:48:22 #
I grew up on Rhubarb pie and LOVE it. We had a small section of our garden planted with Rhubarb and never went without it until my Step Father tore the garden out and built a garage in it's place. We had plenty of vegies to go with it and a peach tree with some of the biggest peaches I have ever seen in my life, but I will never forget the Rhubarb pies my Mom used to make.
May 14, 2014 19:25:10 #
The Dutchman wrote:
I don't have a clue what her location is, that's why I sent here the Farmers Almanac info. I live at 7,200 feet elevation and divide mine in late fall. Rhubarb like my wild asparagus require the least attention of anything in my garden. The tourists that seem to wander this far up the hill are always in fascinated with the Rhubarb I let go to flower as are they with the snow cone tulips I have.
We only use the Rhubarb in a Raspberry sauce sweetened with local honey from my hives....
We only use the Rhubarb in a Raspberry sauce sweetened with local honey from my hives....
7200 feet would be a bit much for me. Yeah, late fall will also work if it's cold and they're going into dormancy. I bet you have great views. I'm at 3500 feet and the views are pretty spectacular.
May 14, 2014 22:23:16 #
B****sheep wrote:
7200 feet would be a bit much for me. Yeah, late fall will also work if it's cold and they're going into dormancy. I bet you have great views. I'm at 3500 feet and the views are pretty spectacular.
This is all I get for views....
My Elk camp is to the right of the second peak in the vally just below timber line.
May 14, 2014 23:17:23 #
The Dutchman wrote:
This is all I get for views....
Brrr. Too cold for me. I lived in the mountains up north for 25 years and that was enough. It goes a little below freezing here in the winter and snows on the hills and mountains for awhile and I'm just as happy when it goes away and the warm sun shines down.
Very pretty, though. :thumbup:
May 15, 2014 10:17:19 #
alex
Loc: michigan now imperial beach californa
Patty wrote:
I took over Moms gardens for her last year and have never grown rhubarb. Does anyone know if I cut those seed tops off to produce more stalks. I didn't last year and didn't get enough yield for even a couple pies.
when I was still in grade school we had a row of it about ten feet long which would t***slate to about a dozen plants and I don't remember doing anything except keep the weeds out of it the same with our green onions, of course each rhubarb plant was about eight to ten inches in dia. so there were many stalks in each plant in a word I don't know but don't think so just wait for next year
May 15, 2014 10:25:41 #
Thanks for replying Alex. They have been neglected in no good dirt for a couple years. Kind of scraggly.
May 15, 2014 10:33:37 #
alex
Loc: michigan now imperial beach californa
Patty wrote:
Thanks for replying Alex. They have been neglected in no good dirt for a couple years. Kind of scraggly.
sounds like B.S. gave you a lot better advice then I could, I know in the twenty years I lived at home we only moved ours once
May 15, 2014 10:35:10 #
Patty wrote:
Thanks for replying Alex. They have been neglected in no good dirt for a couple years. Kind of scraggly.
Ooh. That's poor soil.
May 15, 2014 10:43:38 #
I think this fall I will move them into the Zuc/squash garden. I have thrown quite a bit of moooonure in that garden last year and this year and tilled it as deep as my little Mantis would till. This garden works well for the squash because the deer don't eat them. The rest has to be behind the fenced area or it would be eaten up. There are lots of deer here.
May 15, 2014 10:48:46 #
May 15, 2014 23:31:28 #
I had ample harvests of rhubarb stalks every year for the last 25 to 30 years, and today I'm looking at my rhubarb patch with great delight. My secret is really simple. Yes, cut the shoots that have the flowers. My other secret to the ample harvest is fertilizing with urine diluted with water: 1 gl. urine to four gls. water. Just pour solution on plant and then spray water so fertilizer washes out to the soil. Good luck!
May 16, 2014 10:20:08 #
alex
Loc: michigan now imperial beach californa
B****sheep wrote:
Maybe you should pay attention to what I'm telling Patty instead of ignoring my good advice.
if you think that's ever going to happen you're dreaming, like all liberals he knows everything you know nothing
May 16, 2014 10:29:07 #
jonnie is a special kind of stupid though. They let him hide his own Easter eggs on the ward and the staff still had to go collect them.
alex wrote:
if you think that's ever going to happen you're dreaming, like all liberals he knows everything you know nothing
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