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Killed rhubarb plant?
Jordan Carter
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in Fruit & veg
So, I'm still new to all of this. By mistake, we were cutting down some long grass and accidentally chopped a lot of a rhubarb plant.
To to stop it rotting, I pulled all the stems out and am now only left with a couple of crowns, with the fresh leaves just sprouting. Will having pulled all of the stems out possibly shocked and killed the plant?
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If it has been there a few years it'll recover. If it's a newly planted one it might struggle.
It's been there for around 3 years so hopefully it will be ok?
I think it'll be fine but I wouldn't pull any more stems this year to give it the best chance of building the crown up again.
Weed all the grass away from around it so that it has a clear circle of soil about a metre in diameter around it. Give it a good watering and mulch around (not over) the crown with some manure and leave it alone - it'll recover. Just make sure it doesn't dry out in the summer (but it doesn't want to be soggy either).
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.