What a surprise Obelixx - with all that damage I would never have thought you live so far south. Is anything showing signs of recover yet? If it is any consolation, the weather here in the UK has turned quite chilly, with thoughts of putting the heating back on, but I do remember this time last year was just the same.
There's no Gulf Stream effect here so winters are colder and summers can be hotter tho we do get lots of rain. The local horticultural college sites include one called La Sibérie. Now I know why as we can get colder than the Ardennes which is fine when there's a blanket of snow to protect the plants but devastating when there isn't. I'm learning which plants are tough and which not to bother with any more.
OH cut off all the damaged stems of the rhubarb last weekend leaving just the crowns. It's been warm and sunny for a day or so and there are now new shoots are appearing so the plants will survive but I won't be making rhubarb chutney this year as we need to let the plants recover and OH will nab any stems I do let him pick for his puds.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I'm in Belgium too at the moment, with my OH in West Flanders. Been bright and sunny here while we've been laying her new floor; now we're having a day off, the sun's disappeared No hail.
Rhubarb's primary purpose is surely pud! Chutney is for the remainder, once the freezer is full.
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What a surprise Obelixx - with all that damage I would never have thought you live so far south. Is anything showing signs of recover yet? If it is any consolation, the weather here in the UK has turned quite chilly, with thoughts of putting the heating back on, but I do remember this time last year was just the same.
There's no Gulf Stream effect here so winters are colder and summers can be hotter tho we do get lots of rain. The local horticultural college sites include one called La Sibérie. Now I know why as we can get colder than the Ardennes which is fine when there's a blanket of snow to protect the plants but devastating when there isn't. I'm learning which plants are tough and which not to bother with any more.
OH cut off all the damaged stems of the rhubarb last weekend leaving just the crowns. It's been warm and sunny for a day or so and there are now new shoots are appearing so the plants will survive but I won't be making rhubarb chutney this year as we need to let the plants recover and OH will nab any stems I do let him pick for his puds.
I'm in Belgium too at the moment, with my OH in West Flanders. Been bright and sunny here while we've been laying her new floor; now we're having a day off, the sun's disappeared
No hail.
Rhubarb's primary purpose is surely pud! Chutney is for the remainder, once the freezer is full.
Think that's what's going to happen to us before long
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.