NewBoy, the toxins will be broken down as the leaf rots. it's perfectly safe to put rhubarb leaves on your compost heap, and to use the resulting compost for edible crops.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
They make great slug traps too. When I picked ours I would cut the leaves off there and then and leave them on the ground and the next morning find lots of slugs hiding there and thus easy to remove and squish.
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why? were you planning on digging them up and eating them later?
NewBoy, the toxins will be broken down as the leaf rots. it's perfectly safe to put rhubarb leaves on your compost heap, and to use the resulting compost for edible crops.
I think newboy means will they contaminate the soil Hosta
It won't be absorbed by another plant
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They make great slug traps too. When I picked ours I would cut the leaves off there and then and leave them on the ground and the next morning find lots of slugs hiding there and thus easy to remove and squish.
Sorry
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