Rhubarb is very easy to grow Peter - it takes a little while to get going, that's all.
Rhubarb comes from Siberia so it'll put up with a lot of bad treatment and still grow, but if you want some lovely tender rhubarb for pies and crumbles you have to put just a little tiny bit of effort in.
All I've suggested is mulching and watering - that's not hard - you should try growing showbench quality dahlias and sweet peas
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can I jump in here and ask a related rhubarb question? If I bought a plant this winter but couldn't actually plant it until early spring, would it be OK? I don't want to wait another year but I don't know if I'll have filled the bed it's going to go in until Jan / Feb (raised beds, rather deep, built but lots of topsoil / compost to get yet. it'll take a while). Or will I still be able to buy plants at that time?
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Thanks Dove, and thanks to everyone else for already asking my other questions so I didn't have to! I will buy my rhubarb in early spring 2017 and hold my breath (and my knife) until 2018...
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
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hello dovefromabove .thank you for information thought they were very easy to grow .looks like ive had my eye wiped. regards peter.
Rhubarb is very easy to grow Peter - it takes a little while to get going, that's all.
Rhubarb comes from Siberia so it'll put up with a lot of bad treatment and still grow, but if you want some lovely tender rhubarb for pies and crumbles you have to put just a little tiny bit of effort in.
All I've suggested is mulching and watering - that's not hard - you should try growing showbench quality dahlias and sweet peas
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
hello dovefromabove. thanks again for info willing to try anything just dont want it to die.
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It's not easy to kill it (except by picking too much) but it does take just a little bit of love to get the best out of it ... same as most things
Meanwhile practise your custard making so you can make this http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/10500/rhubarb-and-custard-cake
It's a family favourite here
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can I jump in here and ask a related rhubarb question? If I bought a plant this winter but couldn't actually plant it until early spring, would it be OK? I don't want to wait another year but I don't know if I'll have filled the bed it's going to go in until Jan / Feb (raised beds, rather deep, built but lots of topsoil / compost to get yet. it'll take a while). Or will I still be able to buy plants at that time?
There should be rhubarb plants in pots available from garden centres in early spring. You can plant them then but don't take any stalks until 2018.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
thank you dovefromabove.
regards peter.
Thanks Dove, and thanks to everyone else for already asking my other questions so I didn't have to! I will buy my rhubarb in early spring 2017 and hold my breath (and my knife) until 2018...