Thank you all for the advice, I'll have a go if I can find it. Although I moan about the adjacent farmer's field spreading its weeds into my garden, it means I have a readily available supply of manure if I smile at the farmer nicely. 😅 I'll catch GW tomorrow. One other question, will beneath a walnut tree be ok, that's the best bit of shady area in the vegetable patch? I know not all plants agree with walnut soil.
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I'm not sure about walnut trees ... they quite often manage to keep other plants from doing well. Also rhubarb is quite thirsty ... I don't think under a tree of any sort would be ideal. It doesn't necessarily need shade ... when I had an allotment it was in full sun all day and was just fine.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm afraid I didn't really consider different locations earlier, when I was so confident about rhubarb growing anywhere. No blazing sun or lack of moisture anywhere in an east lancs garden
@D0rdogne_Damsel you need somewhere on the north or west side of a wall or fence and maybe near an outside tap or water butt so you can water in dry spells. Definitely not under a tree and yes, walnuts are known for being unfriendly to other plants.
Last year's early heatwave in April/May meant our rhubarb produced no edible stalks, hence the move to somewhere I can coddle it.
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Apparently it's called juglone @punkdoc, I have 7 walnut trees in the garden, gets tricky finding walnut friendly plants sometimes. Unfortunately, the previous owners put the veg patch right near two of them.
This rhubarb is beginning to sound tricky.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Evening, hope everyone had a productive day in the garden. I moved around some perennials and grasses today and realised that my soil quality is awful, horrible sticky clay. I think it's going to be 5 years of spreading manure before it's half decent...... So no plant purchases for the foreseeable future, budget blown on soil improvers!! 😔 Here's hoping i can grow a garden from seed!!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Last year's early heatwave in April/May meant our rhubarb produced no edible stalks, hence the move to somewhere I can coddle it.
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This rhubarb is beginning to sound tricky.
More one handed weeding today. It's gonna be a helluvah long job.