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rhubarb advice
REMF33
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My rhubarb plants became very thin and straggly within a couple of months of making an appearance this year. I assume I need to divide them? Or maybe I am not feeding them enough? They are probably 5 years old.
However, I want to have a bit of a cull - when I put them in, not having grown rhubarb before, I didn't appreciate just how much room they take up, and they took over the entirety of one of my (only) two raised beds. I am actually considering moving two into two huge pots (60 inch ones) and putting a third in a raised bed for one (segment of a decomissioned behive composter), if I can find a suitable location for it. (A big 'if'. Possibly not.) Is this foolish? And if not will I have to desist from harvesting it for a year? Or two?
However, I want to have a bit of a cull - when I put them in, not having grown rhubarb before, I didn't appreciate just how much room they take up, and they took over the entirety of one of my (only) two raised beds. I am actually considering moving two into two huge pots (60 inch ones) and putting a third in a raised bed for one (segment of a decomissioned behive composter), if I can find a suitable location for it. (A big 'if'. Possibly not.) Is this foolish? And if not will I have to desist from harvesting it for a year? Or two?
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you’ll see how I look after mine.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
i wouldn't recommend pots. they need so much water and nutrition.
if anything, maybe it's time now to dig, reposition, top up the soil with a lot more high nutrition compost.....my raised bed of rhubarb is about five year old and has lost about a foot in height!
That's a pity about pots... I really want to keep some rhubarba, but I also want to free up a raised bed.
It's very frustrating. I have qiute a big garden for where I live, but the only area I can grow edibles in is overshadowed by a massive oak tree at the bottom of one neighbour's garden, and more trees in our other neighbour's... and then there is is the flooding...