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Tall thin rhubarb

Hogroast2Hogroast2 Posts: 55
in Fruit & veg
I planted a couple of rhubarb crowns 2 yrs ago and one grows very tall (it's already a metre high, having made about 4 edible stalks) producing thin stalks, and flowers really quickly. The other stays squat and also doesn't grow much thicker than a thumb.

I put a layer of compost around them at the start of the year, didn't take any stalks for the first year, but is there something I could do to make them thicker?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The tall thin one that flowers sounds hungry.  I mulch mine with manure and Fish Blood and Bone and in the summer I water it in dry spells.  Also I never take more than a third of the stalks available at any one time.  This allows the leaves to feed the crown so that it builds up a store of energy for the future. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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